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Azure – Speech-to-text REST API v3.0 will be retired by 31 March 2026.
Speech-to-text REST API v3.0 will be retired by 31 March 2026. Update your code that uses Speech-to-text REST API. We recently updated the Speech-to-text REST API to version 3.1. Version 3.1 builds on the capabilities of the previous version and adds new features including language identification and multi-speaker diarization. With these enhancements, we’ll retire version 3.0 of […]
GCP – How an international fashion company transforms customer service experiences with conversational AI
LPP S.A. (LPP), a Polish international fashion company that manages five clothing brands, maintains an extensive e-commerce footprint and operates over 2,000 brick-and-mortar stores in almost 40 countries. With double-digit growth across all brands and markets, LPP increasingly relies on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to automate and transform customer service experiences. “Sales […]
AWS – Announcing the general availability of AWS HealthImaging
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS HealthImaging, a new HIPAA-eligible service that empowers healthcare providers and their software partners to store, analyze, and share medical images at petabyte scale. With HealthImaging, you can run your medical imaging applications at scale from a single, authoritative copy of each medical image in the cloud, while […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Serverless now supports storing logs in Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option that makes it simple for data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks like Apache Spark and Apache Hive without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Starting today, you can store logs for your EMR Serverless Spark and Hive applications in Amazon CloudWatch. Read […]
AWS – CloudWatch Application Insights adds monitoring for multi-app instance deployments
Amazon Web Services customers can now get detailed health metrics and analysis of their multi-application deployments residing in the same instances with Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights. CloudWatch Application Insights helps customers gain actionable insights for their application environment and AWS resources by making it easy to set up and monitor applications, recognize problems, and use […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas supports training ML models with different objective metrics
Amazon SageMaker Canvas now provides the ability to train machine learning (ML) models with different objective metrics, allowing you to gain a more comprehensive understanding on the model’s strengths and weaknesses. SageMaker Canvas is a visual interface that enables business analysts and citizen data scientists to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas supports sharing ML models with Amazon QuickSight
Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports sharing machine learning (ML) models with Amazon QuickSight, enabling analysts to build models in Canvas and generate predictions to build dashboards in QuickSight. This extends the ML/Analytics integrated solution between Canvas and QuickSight for analysts to build models, generate predictions, enrich them with interactive dashboards, and use insights for effective business […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces Document Queries powered by Amazon Textract
Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports Document Queries, a ready-to-use model powered by Amazon Textract. Document Queries allows you to specify the data you want to extract from structured documents using natural language, without requiring prior knowledge of the document’s structure (table, form, fields, nested data). This eliminates the need for manual processing and searching within […]
AWS – Amazon EMR on EC2 announces support for native LDAP authentication
Amazon EMR is excited to announce a new feature that enables user authentication to EMR on EC2 clusters using Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) based credentials. This feature allows administrators to configure EMR on EC2 clusters to authenticate corporate identities in their Active Directory (AD) using LDAP. With this launch, AD users are synced to […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift announces automatic mounting of AWS Glue Data Catalog
Amazon Redshift announces the general availability of automatic mounting of AWS Glue Data Catalog, making it easier for customers to run queries in their data lakes. You no longer have to create an external schema in Amazon Redshift to use the data lake tables cataloged in AWS Glue Data Catalog. Now, you can query data […]