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AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus adds direct PagerDuty integration
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service now sends alerts directly to PagerDuty, making it easier to manage your incident notifications. You no longer need to create custom Lambda functions or set up additional services to connect with PagerDuty. This direct integration makes alert delivery more reliable and simplifies the authentication […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker introduces account-agnostic, reusable project profiles
Amazon SageMaker introduces account-agnostic, reusable project profiles (templates) in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio domain, enabling domain administrators to define project configurations once and reuse them across multiple AWS accounts and regions. Project profiles are no longer tied to a specific AWS account or region. Instead, platform teams can reference an account pool—a new domain entity that enables […]
GCP – Simplify complex eventing at Scale with Eventarc Advanced
Modern application development requires organizations to invest not only in scale but also in simplification and central governance. This means more than message routing; it requires a simple, unified messaging platform that can intelligently filter, transform, and govern the flow of information in real-time, taming complexity all in one place. Today, we are excited to […]
GCP – Google Cloud’s open ecosystem for Apache Iceberg
AI is transforming data into a strategic asset, driving demand for flexible, integrated, and real-time data architectures. But yesterday’s data tools can’t handle AI’s demand for massive volumes of real-time and multi-modal data. Data lakes, for instance, offer flexibility for raw data but lack enforcement and consistency. Meanwhile, traditional data marts, warehouses, and lake architectures […]
GCP – From clicks to clusters: Expanding Confidential Computing with Intel TDX
Privacy-protecting Confidential Computing has come a long way since we introduced Confidential Virtual Machines (VMs) five years ago. The technology, which can protect data while in use, strengthens a security gap beyond data encryption at rest and in transit. Since then, customers have used Confidential Computing to protect patient medical data, comply with privacy guidance […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region and United Arab Emirates (Dubai) Region
Amazon QuickSight is a fast, scalable, and fully managed Business Intelligence service that lets you easily create and publish interactive dashboards across your organization is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) and United Arab Emirates (Dubai) Regions. QuickSight dashboards can be authored on any modern web browser with no clients to install or manage; dashboards […]
AWS – AWS End User Messaging now supports international sending for US toll-free numbers
Today, AWS End User Messaging announces support for international sending for US toll-free numbers. International sending support allows customers to send SMS messages to 150+ country destinations including Canada using their US toll-free numbers. With this this launch, customers can leverage a single phone number to send to many supported country destinations globally simplifying their […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune Analytics now introduces stop/start capability
Today, we are excited to announce support for Stop/Start in Amazon Neptune Analytics, a new capability that enables organizations to pause and resume their graph workloads on demand,helping reduce costs during idle periods without losing data or configuration. Many customers use Neptune Analytics for periodic graph workloads such as fraud detection, recommendation engines, or research […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight now supports connectivity to Google Sheets
Today, Amazon QuickSight is announcing the general availability of a native Google Sheets connector. Customers can now connect to Google Sheets by logging in with their Google account and importing sheets into a QuickSight SPICE dataset for analysis. Google Sheets connector for Amazon QuickSight is now available in the following regions: US East (N.Virginia and […]
AWS – RDS Data API now supports IPv6
RDS Data API now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), enabling dual-stack configuration (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity for your Aurora databases. IPv6 enables an expanded address space, enabling you to scale your application on AWS beyond the typical constraints of the number of IPv4 addresses in your VPC. With IPv6, you can assign easy to […]