AWS expands language support for Amazon Lex and Amazon Polly

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAWS expands language support for Amazon Lex and Amazon Polly At AWS, our mission is to enable developers and businesses with no prior machine learning (ML) expertise to easily build sophisticated, scalable, ML-powered applications with our AI services. Today, we’re excited to announce that Amazon Lex and Amazon Polly are expanding language…

Meet the newest AWS Heroes including the first DevTools Heroes!

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedMeet the newest AWS Heroes including the first DevTools Heroes! The AWS Heroes program recognizes individuals from around the world who have extensive AWS knowledge and go above and beyond to share their expertise with others. The program continues to grow, to better recognize the most influential community leaders across a variety…

Migrating from Vertica to Amazon Redshift

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedMigrating from Vertica to Amazon Redshift Amazon Redshift powers analytical workloads for Fortune 500 companies, startups, and everything in between. With Amazon Redshift, you can query petabytes of structured and semi-structured data across your data warehouse, operational database, and your data lake using standard SQL. When you use Vertica, you have to…

Accelerate infrastructure as code development with open source Former2

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAccelerate infrastructure as code development with open source Former2 In this post, AWS Community Hero, Ian Mckay, highlights the capabilities of Former2, an open source project that enables you to generate infrastructure as code (IaC) templates from existing AWS resources in your account. This post covers how Mckay created Former2, how to…

Using AWS Lambda extensions to send logs to custom destinations

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedUsing AWS Lambda extensions to send logs to custom destinations You can now send logs from AWS Lambda functions directly to a destination of your choice using AWS Lambda Extensions. Lambda Extensions are a new way for monitoring, observability, security, and governance tools to easily integrate with AWS Lambda. For more information,…