Amazon QuickSight Enterprise Edition now supports Federated Single Sign-On using SAML 2.0

Starting today, Amazon QuickSight Enterprise Edition customers can use Federated Single Sign-On (SSO) using SAML 2.0 to access QuickSight. This allows users to sign in to their Identity Provider portals with existing credentials and then access QuickSight with a single click, without having to enter any QuickSight-specific account names or passwords. With Federated SSO and QuickSight’s permissions-based just-in-time user provisioning capabilities, AWS administrators can use existing identity management mechanisms to enable QuickSight access for thousands of users with a few clicks. 
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Amazon Lex now supports 8 Khz telephony audio for increased speech recognition accuracy

The Amazon Lex speech recognition engine has now been trained on telephony audio (8 Khz) to provide increased speech recognition accuracy for conversations over the phone. Amazon Lex enables your users to interact with your application via natural conversation using the same deep learning technology as Amazon Alexa to fulfill most common requests. Amazon Lex chatbots maintain context and manage the dialogue, dynamically adjusting the responses based on the conversation. 
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David Hill: Wegbereiter des Retro-Thinkpads hört auf

Der Vice President of Design tritt zurück: David Hill, einer der Köpfe hinter den Thinkpads, bleibt Lenovo dennoch erhalten. Er hat die ikonischen Business-Notebooks maßgeblich geprägt und vor zwei Jahren die Frage nach einem Retro-Thinkpad gestellt. Das mittlerweile angekündigte Sondermodell erscheint noch 2017. (Thinkpad, IBM)
Quelle: Golem