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AWS – Amazon Polly NTTS voices now available in the AWS Europe (Paris) Region
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 all Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voices in the Europe (Paris) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler launches new advanced settings for Amazon Athena data sources
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time that it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes in Amazon SageMaker Studio, the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for ML. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and complete each step […]

GCP – New Google Maps Platform launch stages and what they mean for you
Your application’s users expect a certain amount of reliability and predictability, so we want to make it easier for you to identify the commitments behind the Google Maps Platform services that power your applications. Consistent launch stages communicate the capabilities, support, and production-readiness of the products and features you’re using. To make it easier for […]

GCP – Welcome Karen Dahut to Google Public Sector
We recently announced the launch of Google Public Sector, a new Google subsidiary focused on helping U.S. federal, state, and local governments, and educational institutions accelerate their digital transformations. Google Public Sector brings Google technologies to government and education customers at scale, including open and scalable infrastructure; advanced data and analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine […]

GCP – Meet Optimus, Gojek’s open-source cloud data transformation tool
Editor’s note: Earlier this year, we heard from Gojek, the on-demand services platform, about the open-source data ingestion tool it developed for use with data warehouses like BigQuery. Today, Gojek VP of Engineering Ravi Suhag is back to discuss the open-source data transformation tool it is building. In a recent post, we introduced Firehose, an […]

Azure – Public preview: Customer initiated storage account conversion
You can now initiate storage account conversions from non-zonal redundancy to zonal redundancy via Azure Portal Read More for the details.

GCP – What’s New with Google’s Unified, Open and Intelligent Data Cloud
We’re fortunate to work with some of the world’s most innovative customers on a daily basis, many of whom come to Google Cloud for our well-established expertise in data analytics and AI. As we’ve worked and partnered with these data leaders, we have encountered similar priorities among many of them: to remove the barriers of […]

GCP – Container analysis support for Maven and Go Automatic Scanning of Containers in Public Preview
Java and Go vulnerability scanning support Google Cloud’s Container Scanning API now automatically scans Maven and Go packages for vulnerabilities. With the Container Scanning API enabled, any containers including Java (in Maven repositories) and Go language packages that are uploaded to an Artifact Registry repository will be scanned for vulnerabilities. This capability builds on existing […]

GCP – How LG CNS is creating future AI leaders with immersive machine learning training
As a Korean technology leader specializing in digital transformation (DX), LG CNS partners with customers to help them achieve digital growth across fields including cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), big data, smart factory, and smart logistics. Towards the end of 2020, LG CNS was investigating how to drive digital transformation and growth within their own ranks […]
GCP – Google Cloud Firewall introduces Network Firewall Policies, IAM-governed Tags and more
The network security that firewalls provide is one of the basic building blocks for a secure cloud infrastructure. We are excited to announce that three new Google Cloud Firewall features are now generally available: Global Network Firewall Policies, Regional Network Firewall Policies, and IAM-governed Tags. With these enhancements, Cloud Firewall can help you more easily […]