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Azure – General availability: NLog Sink for Azure Data Explorer
Azure Data Explorer now supports ingestion of data from .NET Applications via the NLog Sink. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere version 23.05 is delayed, new OS will be issued to Retail Eval
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Santiago, Chile
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Cirion data center in Santiago, Chile. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. Read More for the […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus now supports human feedback and fine-tuning data for Generative AI
Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus now enables customers to prepare high-quality, large-scale training datasets to fine-tune foundation models to perform human-like generative AI tasks. It also allows skilled humans to review model outputs to align them with human preferences. Additionally, it enables application builders to customize models using their industry or company data while preparing training […]
AWS – AWS Shield Advanced now supports AWS CloudFormation
AWS Shield Advanced now supports AWS CloudFormation. Starting today, you can easily create and configure Shield Advanced protections against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks using a CloudFormation template. With CloudFormation, you can use a programming language or simple text file to automatically configure resource protections in a secure, efficient and repeatable way. Shield resource […]
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces announces support for NICE DCV Extension SDK
Starting today, Amazon WorkSpaces provides support for the NICE DCV Extension Software Development Kit (SDK). This SDK allows customers and independent software vendors (ISVs) to build custom extensions for the Amazon WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP), which is powered by NICE DCV technology. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Polly launches two new female NTTS voices in Irish English and Danish
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Niamh and Sofie – new Irish English and Danish female Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voices for Amazon Polly. Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk and to build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Read […]
Azure – General availability: Azure CNI powered by Cilium
Leverage next generation eBPF dataplane for pod networking, Kubernetes network policies and service load balancing. Read More for the details.
Azure – Setting Up a CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions for Stream Analytics Jobs
Are you using GitHub for managing your Stream Analytics project and looking to leverage GitHub’s powerful CI/CD pipeline? Follow this comprehensive guide and learn to set up a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions for your Stream Analytics jobs. Read More for the details.
GCP – Cloud Bigtable under the hood: How we improved single-row read throughput by 20-50%
Cloud Bigtable is a scalable, distributed, high-performance NoSQL database that processes more than 6 billion requests per second at peak and has more than 10 Exabytes of data under management. Operating at this scale, Bigtable is highly optimized for high-throughput and low-latency reads and writes. Even so, our performance engineering team continually explores new areas […]
