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Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. We continuously improve the underlying machine learning models based on customer feedback to provide even better accuracy. Today, we are pleased to announce quality enhancements to our text extraction feature available via the DetectDocumentText API. The latest Text detection models available via the DetectDocumentText API now provide improvements to word and line extraction accuracy and specifically for E13B fonts commonly found in checks/cheques, International Bank Account Numbers found in banking documents, and long words (e.g., email addresses). Finally, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. There are several infrastructure as code (IaC) frameworks available today, to help you define your infrastructure, such as the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) or Terraform by HashiCorp. Terraform, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Technology Partner and member of the AWS DevOps Competency, is an IaC tool similar to AWS CloudFormation that allows you to create, update, and version your AWS infrastructure. Terraform provides friendly syntax (similar to AWS CloudFormation) along with other features like planning (visibility to see the changes before they actually happen), graphing, and the ability to create templates to ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. If you are currently running Amazon EMR 5.X clusters, consider moving to Amazon EMR 6.X as  it includes new features that helps you improve performance and optimize on cost. For instance, Apache Hive is two times faster with LLAP on Amazon EMR 6.X, and Spark 3 reduces costs by 40%. Additionally, Amazon EMR 6.x releases include Trino, a fast distributed SQL engine and Iceberg, high-performance open data format for petabyte scale tables. To upgrade Amazon EMR clusters from 5.X to 6.X release, a Hive Metastore upgrade is the first step before applications such as Hive ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Benjamin Smith. This post is written by Mansi Y Doshi, Consultant and Aditya Goteti, Sr. Lead Consultant. Enterprises are modernizing and migrating their applications to the AWS Cloud to improve scalability, reduce cost, innovate, and reduce time to market new features. Legacy applications are often built with RDBMS as the only backend solution. Modernizing legacy Java applications with microservices requires breaking down a single monolithic application into multiple independent services. Each microservice does a specific job and requires its own database to persist data, but one database does not fit all use cases. Modern applications ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. In the past, brick-and-mortar retailers leveraged native marketing and advertisement channels to engage with consumers. They have promoted their products and services through TV commercials, and magazine and newspaper ads. Many of them have started using social media and digital advertisements. Although marketing approaches are beginning to modernize and expand to digital channels, businesses still depend on expensive marketing agencies and inefficient manual processes to measure campaign effectiveness and understand buyer behavior. The recent pandemic has forced many retailers to take their businesses online. Those who are ready to embrace these changes have embarked on a ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed file storage built on Windows Server, now provides additional performance metrics for improved visibility into file system activity and an enhanced monitoring dashboard with performance insights and recommendations. You can use the new metrics and dashboard to right-size your file systems and optimize performance and costs. You could previously use performance metrics to monitor the throughput and IOPS delivered by the file system, the primary performance characteristics for most workloads. Now, using additional performance metrics that include file server CPU and memory usage and storage disk ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. We are excited to launch the AWS Smart City Competency to provide best-in-class partner recommendations to our customers and broader market. With cities at the front line of economic, social, and global challenges such as energy and water use, traffic management, sanitation, and sustainability, the quest to build cities that “work” is increasingly reliant on technology solutions. Many AWS Partners leverage the power of AWS Cloud to innovate and deploy meaningful smart city solutions for these challenges, including urban data platforms to help cities gain insights for data-driven decision making; innovative solutions to improve the efficiency and ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. 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. Amazon Polly uses advanced deep learning technologies to synthesize natural sounding human speech. NTTS voices can be applied to a diverse set of use cases to increase customer engagement. For example, giving interactive voice response (IVR) or virtual assistant agents’ natural sounding voices or producing spoken versions of text-based content. For eLearning, ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. 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 of the data preparation workflow, including data selection, cleansing, exploration, and visualization, from a single visual interface. You can import data from multiple data sources such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, and 26 Federated Query data sources ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. IMM (Institutional Money Market) is a mutual fund that invests in highly liquid instruments, cash, and cash equivalents. IMM funds are large financial intermediaries that are crucial to financial stability in the US. Due to its criticality, IMM funds are highly regulated under the security laws, notably Rule 2a-7, Which states that during market stress, fund managers can impose a liquidity fee up to 2% or redemption gates (a delay in processing redemption) if the fund’s weekly liquid assets drop below 30% of its total assets. The liquidity fees and gates allow money market funds ... Read More