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AWS – Amazon Polly adds neural support for Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish
Today Amazon Polly, a service that turns text into lifelike speech, announced the general availability of three new neural Text-to-speech (NTTS) voices: Elin for Swedish, Ida for Norwegian and Suvi for Finnish. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports July 2022 Release Updates (RU) for 21c
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the July 2022 Release Updates (RU) for Oracle Database 21c. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS CloudTrail announces delegated administrator account support for AWS Organizations
Today, AWS CloudTrail announces support for a delegated administrator account, which provides customers with the ability to manage organization trails and CloudTrail Lake event data stores from an account other than the management account in AWS Organizations. Delegated administrator support enables flexibility for customers by allowing the management account to delegate CloudTrail administrative actions to […]

Azure – Generally available: New node sizing for Azure VMware Solution
Optimize workloads with new node sizes, AV52, and AV36P, now generally available in Azure VMware Solution. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Azure Static Web Apps now fully supports .NET 7
Azure Static Web Apps now supports building and deploying full-stack .NET 7.0 isolated applications. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Functions now supports .NET 7 in an isolated worker process
Create applications with .NET 7 runtime to take advantage of serverless functions in Azure. Read More for the details.

GCP – Accelerating digital transformation with industry solutions – Podcast
Most large enterprises started with their own data centers and developed in-house solutions to meet their specific business needs, regulations, and industry specifications. These solutions were based on traditional applications from legacy vendors like Oracle and Microsoft — or even mainframes — and from key technology providers like SAP and VMware. During the last decade, […]

GCP – Document AI: A unified AI agent for your document processing needs
As I type this blog in a Google Doc, I can’t help but think about how much we rely on digital documents to communicate, collaborate, and do business. Yet most of the data in documents remains un-analyzed. Even when documents are part of customer-facing workflows like processing a mortgage application or a contract, businesses frequently […]

GCP – Samsung upskills their Big Data Center teams to transform business
Samsung Electronics, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of smartphones, TV’s, home appliances and electronic devices, recently launched their Big Data Center (BDC) to improve the use of big data in development, marketing, and product sales. Samsung also focused on maximizing the value of their existing data by creating a data hub platform to harness […]
GCP – Upskill for in-demand cloud roles with no-cost training on Coursera
Cloud technology has experienced accelerated adoption in recent years, with continued growth expected into 2023.1 This means that the need for organizations to attract and retain professionals with cloud skills continues to grow in parallel.2 Keep your cloud career growing, at pace with digital transformation In partnership with Google Cloud, Coursera is offeringno-cost access to […]