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AWS – Amazon Polly now offers a Neural TTS voice in Portuguese
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of a Neural version of Inês, Polly’s European Portuguese female text to speech (TTS) voice. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) announces Karpenter v0.9.0 with support for Pod Affinity
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is announcing v0.9.0 of the Karpenter open-source cluster autoscaling project. Karpenter is a flexible, high-performance Kubernetes cluster autoscaler that helps improve application availability and resource utilization. Karpenter v0.9.0 adds supports for Kubernetes podAffinity and podAntiAffinity scheduling constraints, which increases its compatibility with popular third-party Helm charts and expands support for high-availability use […]
GCP – Running VMware in the cloud: How Google Cloud VMware Engine stacks up
Google Cloud VMware Engine delivers an enterprise-grade, cloud-native VMware experience that is built on Google Cloud’s highly performant and scalable infrastructure. By enabling a consistent VMware experience, the service allows customers to adopt Google Cloud rapidly, easily, and with minimal modifications to their vSphere workloads, bringing the best of VMware and Google Cloud together on […]
GCP – Service Catalog: Introducing version selection for Terraform solutions
Enterprise IT admins use Google Cloud Service Catalog Terraform solutions to establish curated catalogs of self-serve Google Cloud infrastructure for their organizations. Now, with support for multiple Terraform versions for Service Catalog solutions, administrators create and validate their deployment configs with a particular version of Terraform. The version selected is used by the Service Catalog […]
GCP – A2A puts customers and the planet first by running SAP on Google Cloud
With more than 2.5 million customers, Italian utility company A2A is committed to delivering electricity, gas, clean water, and waste collection every day. More recently, the company made another significant commitment: To incorporate the principles of the “circular economy” into its way of doing business — part of the UN 2030 Agenda’s Sustainable-Development Goals — […]
GCP – How Chalo uses Google Maps Platform to transform the bus passenger experience
Vinayak Bhavnani, Co-Founder and CTO of India-based bus transport technology company Chalo, shares how Google Maps Platform is used to improve visibility for commuters and bus operators across India by visualizing geospatial data. Effective public transport networks contribute to the local economy and help make cities safe, pleasant, and sustainable. In India, buses make up […]
AWS – AWS Announces general availability of the first AWS Wavelength Zone in Canada
Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Wavelength on the Bell 5G network in Toronto. Enterprises, application developers, and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), can now use the AWS Wavelength Zone in Toronto to build ultra-low latency applications for mobile devices and end-users in Canada. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect launches API to search for users by name, agent hierarchies, and tags
Amazon Connect now provides a new API to search for user records in your Amazon Connect instance. This new API provides a programmatic and flexible way to search for users by first name, last name, username, routing profile, security profile, agent hierarchies or tags. For example, you can now use this API to search for […]
AWS – Amazon SES V2 now supports email size of up to 40MB for inbound and outbound emails by default
With V2 of Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), you can now send and receive emails of up to 40MB message size (including the email text, images, attachments, and the MIME encoding). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Nimble Studio is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region
Amazon Nimble Studio is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. Deploying Nimble Studio in your local region provides users with a more responsive experience. In just a few hours, you can create a new studio environment in which creative talent can access virtual workstations powered by Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) G4dn instances, […]