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Azure – General Availability: Azure Center for SAP solutions
Azure Center for SAP solutions brings together an integrated set of capabilities for deploying and managing SAP landscapes by making Azure SAP aware. You can take advantage of the management capabilities for both new and your existing Azure-based SAP systems. Read More for the details.
Azure – We’re retiring Speech-to-text REST preview API v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023
We recently made the Speech-to-text REST API version 3.1 generally available. With this release, we’ll retire the preview version v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS IoT Core registry adds additional AWS CloudFormation resource types
AWS CloudFormation now supports AWS IoT Core thing group, thing type and billing group resources. AWS CloudFormation is an infrastructure as code (IaC) service that allows you to easily model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources. You can now use an AWS CloudFormation template to pre-configure and deploy AWS IoT Core registry resources for your […]
AWS – AWS Marketplace introduces new self-service listing feature for single AMI products
AWS Marketplace now features a new self-service listing experience in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal for single AMI products. The new feature enables AWS Marketplace sellers to publish and update AMI listings more quickly and easily. This feature enables you to directly interact with AWS Marketplace catalog to create, preview, test, and update your product listing […]
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports M6g and R6g database instances in four additional AWS regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports AWS Graviton2-based M6g and R6g database instances in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta), Europe (Spain), and the Middle East (UAE). Depending on the database engine, version, and workload, Graviton2-based instances provide up to 19% better price/performance than comparable M4 and R4 instances. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides supervisor alerts on agent performance
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides supervisor alerts on agent performance, enabling businesses to identify contacts (e.g., evaluation score < 50%) that require supervisors follow-up with agents on their team. Supervisors can now do proactive follow-ups with specific agents on their team that require more immediate support instead of waiting for periodic follow-ups with every […]
AWS – AWS Glue Crawler now support custom JDBC drivers
AWS Glue Crawler now supports the ability for customers to bring their own custom JDBC drivers to extract data schemas from data sources and populate the AWS Glue Data Catalog. Glue Crawlers already support JDBC Glue connections to supported data sources on AWS. Now, you can bring your own JDBC driver versions to connect to […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Studio is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Starting today, you can use Amazon SageMaker Studio in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions to perform all ML development steps in one place, from preparing raw data to building, training, and deploying ML models. Read More for the details.
GCP – Let’s build a Windows virtual machine
Creating a virtual machine (VM), a computer you can use without needing to purchase, set up, or keep around, is one of the most basic functions of the cloud. You can rent as many computers as you need and delete them when you’re done with them. But VMs are only a benefit if setting up […]
GCP – “The time is now.” Why this Kenyan Googler is betting on Africa’s tech opportunity
Editor’s note: Jack Ngare is a Technical Director in Google Cloud’s Office of the CTO based in Nairobi, Kenya. A native of Kenya, he worked in telecommunications abroad for 12 years before returning home to work for a large African financial institution and a U.S. technology company. He joined Google Cloud last year with a […]