I’m a life-long learner! I try to set aside some time every day to read about or to try something new. I grew up in the 1960’s and 1970’s, back before the Internet existed. As a teenager, access to technical information of any sort was difficult, expensive, and time-consuming.
AWS Online Tech Talks – April 2017
AWS Price List API Update – Regional Price Lists
We launched the AWS Price List API in late 2015 (read New – AWS Price List API to learn more). Designed to power budgeting, forecasting, and cost analysis tools, this API provides prices for AWS services in JSON and CSV form, with one price list per service.
Episode 127 on the new Script Lab Office add-in with Michael Zlatkovsky and Bhargav Krishna—Office 365 Developer Podcast
In Episode 127 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates talk with Michael Zlatkovsky and Bhargav Krishna about the new Script Lab Office add-in. https://officeblogspodcastswest.blob.core.windows.net/podcasts/EP127_ScriptLab.
Announcing 5 Partners That Have Achieved AWS Service Partner Status for AWS Service Catalog
Allison Johnson from the AWS Marketplace wrote the guest post below to share some important APN news. -Ana At last November’s re:Invent, we announced the AWS Service Delivery Program to help AWS customers find partners in the AWS Partner Network (APN) with expertise in specific AWS services and skills.
Venue management firm reduces costs, improves collaboration with move to the cloud
Today’s blog post was written by John Hornby, chief operating officer at the NEC Group, a venue management company based in the United Kingdom. The NEC Group got its start in 1976 when Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England.
Office 365 ProPlus updates
Today’s post was written by Ron Markezich, corporate vice president for the Office commercial marketing team. Office 365 ProPlus delivers cloud-connected and always up-to-date versions of our most valuable enterprise apps. Today, we’re making three important announcements related to ProPlus: changes to the Office 365 system requirements; improvements to the ProPlus update model, including alignment […]
AWS San Francisco Summit – Summary of Launches and Announcements
Many of my colleagues are in San Francisco for today’s AWS Summit. Here’s a summary of what we announced from the main stage and in the breakout sessions: New Services Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) – In-Memory Caching for Read-Intensive Workloads.
Amazon Lex – Now Generally Available
During AWS re:Invent I showed you how you could use Amazon Lex to build conversational voice & text interfaces. At that time we launched Amazon Lex in preview form and invited developers to sign up for access. Powered by the same deep learning technologies that drive Amazon Alexa, Amazon Lex allows you to build web […]
Amazon Polly – Announcing Speech Marks and Whispering
Like me, you may have loved going to the library or bookstore to have your favorite book narrated to you. As a child, I loved listening to books narrated by good storytellers who gave life to their stories by changing the inflection of their voice as needed.
Amazon Rekognition Update – Image Moderation
We launched Amazon Rekognition late last year and I told you about it in my post Amazon Rekognition – Image Detection and Recognition Powered by Deep Learning. As I explained at the time, this service was built by our Computer Vision team over the course of many years and analyzes billions of images daily.