Amazon FreeRTOS is a new operating system for microcontroller-based IoT devices

 Amazon FreeRTOS is, as the name implies, essentially an extension of the FreeRTOS operating system that adds libraries for local and cloud connectivity. Over time, Amazon will also add support for over-the-air updates. Read More

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AWS launches translation services

 Taking to yet another front the battle with Google, Apple and Microsoft for dominance in speech recognition and natural language processing, Amazon announced a new translation service as part of its AWS extravaganza.
As part of Amazon Web Services, Translate will provide text translations for supported languages (Google and Microsoft have been offering these services for years).
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AWS releases SageMaker to make it easier to build and deploy machine learning models

 Cloud services are designed to take away a lot of the complexity associated with managing a particular process, whether that’s software or infrastructure. Today, machine learning is quickly gaining traction with developers, and AWS wants to help remove some of the obstacles associated with building and deploying machine learning models. To that end, the company announced Amazon SageMaker,… Read More

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Amazon Rekognition Video gives developers access to real-time video analysis

 Amazon’s AWS division today expanded its line-up of pre-trained machine learning tools with the launch of Amazon Rekognition Video. This new service works for both batch uploads and even real-time video streams, which gives Amazon a leg up on similar services from some of its competitors. With Rekognition, AWS already offered a tool for analyzing static images and getting data about them… Read More

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Amazon Rekognition Video gives developers access to real-time video analysis

 Amazon’s AWS division today expanded its line-up of pre-trained machine learning tools with the launch of Amazon Rekognition Video. This new service works for both batch uploads and even real-time video streams, which gives Amazon a leg up on similar services from some of its competitors. With Rekognition, AWS already offered a tool for analyzing static images and getting data about them… Read More

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Amazon Rekognition Video gives developers access to real-time video analysis

 Amazon’s AWS division today expanded its line-up of pre-trained machine learning tools with the launch of Amazon Rekognition Video. This new service works for both batch uploads and even real-time video streams, which gives Amazon a leg up on similar services from some of its competitors. With Rekognition, AWS already offered a tool for analyzing static images and getting data about them… Read More

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AWS adds Global Tables feature to share data across multiple geographies

 Customers using AWS’ Amazon DynamoDB to store data have two new services to help make their applications work better and more quickly in more regions around the world. The first is a Global Tables feature that allows AWS customers to automatically replicate tables across different AWS regions. Tech companies are already global businesses, but sometimes their data isn’t as… Read More

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AWS adds Global Tables feature to share data across multiple geographies

 Customers using AWS’ Amazon DynamoDB to store data have two new services to help make their applications work better and more quickly in more regions around the world. The first is a Global Tables feature that allows AWS customers to automatically replicate tables across different AWS regions. Tech companies are already global businesses, but sometimes their data isn’t as… Read More

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AWS adds Global Tables feature to share data across multiple geographies

 Customers using AWS’ Amazon DynamoDB to store data have two new services to help make their applications work better and more quickly in more regions around the world. The first is a Global Tables feature that allows AWS customers to automatically replicate tables across different AWS regions. Tech companies are already global businesses, but sometimes their data isn’t as… Read More

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AWS makes it easier and faster to query data stored in its S3 and Glacier storage services

 At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, AWS today announced a small but significant update to its S3 cloud storage and Glacier cold storage service — and how developers can access data in them. As AWS CEO Andy Jassy noted in his keynote, the company’s customers tend to store much of their data in its S3 storage service, despite the fact that AWS also offers plenty of database… Read More

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AWS makes it easier and faster to query data stored in its S3 and Glacier storage services

 At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, AWS today announced a small but significant update to its S3 cloud storage and Glacier cold storage service — and how developers can access data in them. As AWS CEO Andy Jassy noted in his keynote, the company’s customers tend to store much of their data in its S3 storage service, despite the fact that AWS also offers plenty of database… Read More

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