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AWS – New Korean voice for Amazon Polly
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Jihye – new Korean Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) female voice for Amazon Polly. Amazon Polly is a fully-managed service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk and to build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Jihye is our new Korean […]

AWS – Deploy Storage Browser for Amazon S3 quickly with AWS sample applications
You can now easily deploy pre-configured sample applications to connect your users to data in Amazon S3 using Storage Browser for S3. Once you select and deploy one of the sample apps, users can browse, download, upload, copy, and delete data they have access to in S3 through an intuitive file browser experience. You can […]

AWS – AWS Network Firewall is now available in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) Regions
Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is available in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) regions, enabling customers to deploy essential network protections for all their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). AWS Network Firewall is a managed firewall service that is easy to deploy. The service automatically scales with network traffic volume to provide high-availability […]

AWS – AWS Amplify Hosting announces Web Application Firewall Protection in general availability
Today, we are announcing the general availability of our Web Application Firewall Protection for AWS Amplify Hosting. This new feature allows customers to easily attach a web application firewall to their AWS Amplify apps, enhancing the security of their hosted applications. With this integration, customers can implement robust security measures without additional configuration steps or […]

GCP – Google Public Sector takes center stage at Next ‘25 – Sessions you can’t miss
Google is leading a new era of innovation across the public sector. Google Cloud Next ‘25, taking place in Las Vegas from April 9-11, 2025, is the ideal opportunity to see firsthand how our AI and security solutions are transforming education and government. Our jam-packed agenda at Next ’25 features a wide-range of speakers and […]

AWS – Announcing multi-head node support in Slurm for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod clusters
We’re excited to introduce multi-head node support for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod clusters. This new capability enhances fault tolerance and availability for large scale generative AI model development workloads. When a single head node manages job scheduling and resource allocation, it can become a critical bottleneck for customers running large scale AI workloads. When this node […]

AWS – Amazon Route 53 Profiles now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Service Endpoints
Amazon Route 53 Profiles introduces dual stack support for the Route 53 Profiles API endpoints, enabling you to connect using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), or dual stack clients. The existing Route 53 Profiles endpoints supporting IPv4 will remain available for backwards compatibility. Route 53 Profiles makes it easy for […]

AWS – Database Insights adds support for customization of its metrics dashboard
CloudWatch Database Insights announces support for customization of its metrics dashboard, allowing users to add or remove any database metric to the default dashboard provided. Database Insights is a database observability solution that provides a curated experience designed for DevOps engineers, application developers, and database administrators to expedite database troubleshooting and gain a holistic view […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch RUM is now generally available in 2 additional AWS regions
Amazon CloudWatch RUM, which enables customers to monitor their web applications by collecting client side performance and error data in real time, is additionally available in the following AWS Regions starting today: Israel (Tel Aviv), and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong). CloudWatch RUM provides curated dashboards for web application performance experienced by real end users including […]
GCP – Colossus under the hood: How we deliver SSD performance at HDD prices
From YouTube and Gmail to BigQuery and Cloud Storage, almost all of Google’s products depend on Colossus, our foundational distributed storage system. As Google’s universal storage platform, Colossus achieves throughput that rivals or exceeds the best parallel file systems, has the management and scale of an object storage system, and an easy-to-use programming model that’s […]