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GCP – How JCB is leveraging SRE to lead a successful digital transformation
About three years ago, JCB, one of the biggest Japanese payment companies, launched a project to develop new high-value services with agility. We set up a policy of starting small from scratch without using the existing system, which we call the concept of “Dejima”, where we focused on improving various aspects such as team structure, […]
Azure – Azure Machine Learning – Public Preview for July
New features now available in Public Preview enable you to create AI workflows that connect to various language models and data sources and use prompt flow and Azure OpenAI models to build LLM applications. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Machine Learning – General Availability for July
A new feature now available in GA enables you to create compute clusters in locations that are different from the location of the workspace. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing Analytics on Amazon Lex
Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application, using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build sophisticated natural language conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems. We are excited to announce the general availability of Analytics on Amazon Lex. Analytics gives access […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches pre-defined Contact Lens conversational analytics metrics
Amazon Connect now provides pre-defined Contact Lens conversational analytics metrics, available via the GetMetricDataV2 API, enabling contact center managers to analyze aggregate contact quality and agent performance. These new metrics allow managers to understand how many times an agent interrupted a customer, the talk-time for a contact overall, by agent, or by customer, and how […]
AWS – Amazon Corretto July, 2023 Quarterly Updates
On July 18, 2023 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) and Feature (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 20.0.2, 17.0.8, 11.0.20, 8u381 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public Preview : Crash Consistent VM Restore points
For Azure partners and customers seeking to develop business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, crash-consistent VM restore points serve as feature-rich building blocks, offering an agentless solution available natively on the Azure platform. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL supports Microsoft AD authentication in AWS GovCloud (US) regions
Authentication with Microsoft Active Directory for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Mainframe Modernization service is now PCI DSS Compliant
AWS Mainframe Modernization is now Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant, enabling customers to use AWS Mainframe Modernization for applications that store, process, and transmit information for use cases such as payment processing that are subject to PCI DSS. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public Preview: Vector search, a feature of Azure Cognitive Search
With Vector search, Developers can store, index, and deliver search applications over vector representations of organizational data including text, images, audio, video, and more. Read More for the details.