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AWS – Announcing automated 997 and TA1 acknowledgements for AWS B2B Data Interchange
AWS B2B Data Interchange now automatically generates 997 functional acknowledgements and TA1 interchange acknowledgements in response to all relevant inbound X12 electronic data interchange (EDI) transactions. These acknowledgements are used to confirm receipt of individual transactions and to report errors. With this launch, you can now automate delivery of 997 and TA1 acknowledgements to trading […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Beginning today, customers can use Amazon Bedrock in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region to easily build and scale generative AI applications using a variety of foundation models (FMs) as well as powerful tools to build generative AI applications. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Governance Update – Management Groups
Beginning May 3, 2024, Azure will start enabling the root management group for tenants that have not enabled it yet. Using Azure management groups leverages best practices when applying Azure Policy and having it pre-enabled reduces the initial set up work to follow the best practices. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Trusted Advisor now supports API to exclude resources
AWS Trusted Advisor introduces new API to enable you to programmatically exclude resources from recommendations associated with Trusted Advisor best practice checks. On Nov 17 2023, Trusted Advisor announced the launch of new APIs available to Business, Enterprise On-Ramp, or Enterprise Support customers. This launch adds the BatchUpdateRecommendationResourceExclusions API to this suite of APIs to […]
AWS – Introducing file commit history in Amazon CodeCatalyst
Today, AWS announces the general availability of file commit history in Amazon CodeCatalyst. Customers can now view the file git commit history in the CodeCatalyst’s console. Amazon CodeCatalyst helps teams plan, code, build, test, and deploy applications on AWS. Viewing the history of commits, pertaining to a file, is a way to reduce the effort […]
AWS – Amazon Personalize launches new recipes supporting larger item catalogs with lower latency
Today, Amazon Personalize announces the general availability of two new recipes, User-Personalization-v2 and Personalized-Ranking-v2 (v2 recipes). Built on Transformers architecture, these new recipes support catalogs with up to 5 million items with lower inference latency. Amazon Personalize testing showed that v2 recipes improved recommendation accuracy by up to 9% and recommendation coverage by up to […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides generative AI-powered agent performance evaluations (preview)
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides managers with generative AI-powered recommendations for answers to questions in agent evaluation forms, enabling them to perform evaluations faster and more accurately. Managers now receive additional agent behavioral insights (e.g., did the agent show empathy while delivering bad news?) and will get context and justification for the recommended answers […]
AWS – Amazon Chime SDK Voice Connector now supports audio streaming G.711 A-Law encoded audio
Amazon Chime SDK Voice Connector audio streaming now supports G.711 A-law encoded audio. With this update, companies can stream audio to AWS from their phone systems using session initiation protocol recording (SIPREC) with G.711 A-law encoded audio. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Virtual Network Manager user-defined route (UDR) management now in public preview
UDR management in Azure Virtual Network Manager is now in public preview, enabling users to describe their desired routing behavior via configuration, simplifying the management of routing behaviors at scale. Read More for the details.
GCP – Sullivan County debuts generative AI chatbot, Saige, to answer constituent FAQs
Sullivan County, New York, is home to the Catskills Mountains. It’s a great place to live, play, and raise a family, and we have a robust group of visitors and tourists. We are also a fairly small county. Being on the cutting edge of technology isn’t typically something people associate with local governments, and I’m […]