In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Evernote significantly restricting its feature set for free users, Amazon launching a new AI chatbot for the enterprise, and more.
Last Update: Jul 31, 2023
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In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, Amazon Web Services (AWS) remains one of the biggest players in the cloud computing industry. For most IT pros, AWS certifications have become a crucial stepping stone for career advancement. These certifications validate professionals’ expertise with AWS services and indicate their ability to design, deploy, and manage applications on…
Last Update: Jul 14, 2023
In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft Teams 3D avatars reaching general availability and Amazon allowing all developers to release their Android apps on its App Store on Windows 11.
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is a fully managed service for efficiently streaming data from virtually any data source to your AWS applications. It provides near-real-time ingestion capabilities for building real-time data applications. In this article, we’ll detail how Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose works and the best use cases for it. What is Amazon Kinesis Data…
Last Update: Jun 30, 2023
Amazon announced yesterday Amazon Bedrock, a new platform allowing organizations to build and scale generative AI applications in the likes of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Despite being the leading cloud provider with Amazon Web Services, the company was a bit late to join the generative AI race but it’s well positioned to catch up. “At AWS, we…
Security researchers have disclosed a campaign that allowed hackers to gain access to data center logins for Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and several other big companies. According to a new report from Bloomberg, the stolen credentials could potentially allow threat actors to gain physical access to clients’ servers. Cybersecurity research firm Resecurity Inc. first discovered the…
Further fueling fears of a coming recession, Amazon has announced that it was laying off 18,000 of its employees. The 18,000 layoffs represent roughly 6 percent of Amazon’s workforce. Amazon, headquartered in Seattle, is the second largest employer in the US behind Walmart. The online retailer employs 1.5 million people globally. Most of the cuts…
Amazon Web Services announced earlier this month Amazon Comprehend for Intelligent Document Processing (IDP). This is a new natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning (ML) to uncover relationships and connections in various document types. Amazon Comprehend for IDP enables you to classify and extract entities from PDF documents, Microsoft Word files, and…
Last Update: Aug 30, 2022
Amazon recently announced that a serverless version of their Aurora MySQL database product is now generally available.