Amazon Polly introduces Takumi, a new neural Japanese male voice

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAmazon Polly introduces Takumi, a new neural Japanese male voice Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of a neural version of Takumi, Polly’s Japanese male text to speech (TTS) voice. Takumi neural TTS sounds natural, friendly and smooth. With this launch,…

AWS Lambda use cases: 6 inspirational examples

By Dustin Ward

Since being launched in 2014, the AWS Lambda service has spread fast amongst developers and cloud architects, for it is easy to use, and there is a significant cost benefit (pay-per-use basis).  AWS Lambda is an Amazon Web Services serverless deployment platform that you can use in the AWS cloud environment with basically no overhead. It will save you much…

Introducing AWS AppConfig Feature Flags In Preview

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedIntroducing AWS AppConfig Feature Flags In Preview Modern DevOps practices require development teams to continuously iterate their applications based on customer feedback. These iterations are mostly comprised of the introduction of new features within the application, or tuning the applications to cope with operational events such as limit increases or improving fault tolerance. Feature…

AWS attained MTCS Level 3 certification under the new SS584:2020 standard

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAWS attained MTCS Level 3 certification under the new SS584:2020 standard We’re excited to announce the completion of the Multi-Tier Cloud Security (MTCS) Level 3 certification under the new SS584:2020 standard in November 2021 for three Amazon Web Services (AWS) Regions: Singapore, Korea, and United States, excluding AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The new standard,…