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GCP – How innovative startups are growing their businesses on Google’s open data cloud
Data is one of the single most valuable assets for organizations today. It can empower businesses to do incredible things like create better views of health for hospitals, enable people to share timely insights with their colleagues, and — increasingly — be a foundational building block for startups who build their products and businesses in […]
GCP – How to get started with the Political Ads Transparency Report dataset
In 2022 we saw several major elections across the globe. And as many countries prepare for elections in 2023 and 2024, we’d like to re-introduce a set of transparency tools that Google provides in the election advertising space. We know that election advertising is an important component of the democratic process – candidates use ads […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments now supports Aurora MySQL 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) as a source cluster
Amazon Aurora now supports Aurora MySQL 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) as a source cluster or blue environment within Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments. This enables you to use Blue/Green Deployments for minor version upgrades for Aurora MySQL 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Polly launches five new male NTTS voices
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of five new male neural Text-to-speech (NTTS) voices: Sergio for Castilian Spanish, Andrés for Mexican Spanish, Rémi for French, Adriano […]
AWS – Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.8.34
Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.8.34, which includes several fixes to the previously supported version, RabbitMQ 3.8.30. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easier to set up and operate message brokers on AWS. You can reduce your operational burden by using Amazon […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now allows you to specify environment variables for your tuning jobs
SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning allows you to find the most accurate version of your machine learning model by searching for the optimal set of hyperparameter configurations. Previously, you could only specify environment variables for your algorithm runtime in your SageMaker Training jobs, but not in your tuning jobs. Starting today, you have the flexibility to […]
Azure – Generally available: Indirect enterprise agreement on Azure Cost Management and Billing
Manage your enrollment hierarchy, view account usage, and monitor costs directly from the Azure Cost Management and Billing menu on the Azure portal (for indirect enterprise agreement customers) Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing comprehensive controls management with AWS Control Tower
Today we are excited to announce the launch of comprehensive controls management in AWS Control Tower, a set of new features that enhances AWS Control Tower’s governance capabilities. You can now programmatically implement controls at scale across your multi-account AWS environments within minutes, so you can more quickly vet, allow-list, and begin using AWS services. […]
AWS – Announcing runtime management controls for AWS Lambda
Today, AWS announces the general availability of runtime management controls for AWS Lambda. The operational simplicity of automatic runtime updates is one of the features customers most like about Lambda. This release provides customers running critical production workloads with more visibility and control over when runtime updates are applied to their functions. Read More for […]
Azure – General availability: Mount Azure Storage as a local share in App Service Windows Code
Mounting Azure Storage File share as a network share in Windows code (non-container) in App Service is now generally available. Read More for the details.