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AWS – Amazon Connect now supports nine additional languages for forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling
Amazon Connect now supports nine additional languages for forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling. New languages now supported include: Canadian French, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), and Spanish. These new languages are available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling are available. To learn more […]
AWS – OpenSearch’s vector engine adds support for UltraWarm on Amazon OpenSearch Service
UltraWarm is a fully managed, warm storage tier that’s designed to deliver cost savings on the Amazon OpenSearch Service. With OpenSearch 2.17+ domains, you can now store k-NN (vector) indexes on UltraWarm storage reducing the cost of serving infrequently access k-NN indexes through warm and cold storage tiers. With UltraWarm storage, you can further cost […]
AWS – AWS Compute Optimizer now supports rightsizing recommendations for Amazon Aurora
AWS Compute Optimizer now provides recommendations for Amazon Aurora DB instances. These recommendations help you identify idle database instances and choose the optimal DB instance class, so you can reduce costs for unused resources and increase the performance of under-provisioned workloads. AWS Compute Optimizer automatically analyzes Amazon CloudWatch metrics such as CPU utilization, network throughput, […]
AWS – Amazon CloudFront now supports Anycast Static IPs
Amazon CloudFront introduces Anycast Static IPs, providing customers with a dedicated list of IP addresses for connecting to all CloudFront edge locations worldwide. Typically, CloudFront uses rotating IP addresses to serve traffic. Customers implementing Anycast Static IPs will receive a dedicated list of static IP addresses for their workloads. CloudFront Anycast Static IPs enables customers […]
AWS – AWS B2B Data Interchange now supports all X12 transaction sets
AWS B2B Data Interchange now supports all X12 transactions for versions 4010, 4030, 4050, 4060, and 5010. Versions 4050 and 4060 are new to the service and were not previously available. Each of these transactions and versions are supported for both inbound and outbound use cases, enabling you to migrate a greater number of your […]
AWS – Announcing auto migration of EC2 databases to Amazon RDS using AWS Database Migration Service
AWS announces a “1-click move to managed” feature for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) that enables you to easily and seamlessly migrate your self-managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MariaDB databases to an equivalent Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora database. Using the 1-click move to managed functionality on the Amazon RDS console, you can migrate your […]
AWS – Bottlerocket announces new AMIs that are preconfigured to use FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic modules
Today, AWS has announced new AMIs for Bottlerocket that are preconfigured to use FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic modules, including the Amazon Linux 2023 Kernel Crypto API and AWS-LC. Bottlerocket is a Linux-based operating system purpose-built for running containers, with a focus on security, minimal footprint, and safe updates. With these FIPS-enabled Bottlerocket AMIs, the host […]
AWS – AWS re:Post Private is now integrated with Amazon Bedrock to offer contextual knowledge to organizations
Today, AWS re:Post Private announces its integration with Amazon Bedrock, ushering in a new era of contextualized knowledge management for customer organizations. This feature transforms traditional organizational knowledge practices into a dynamic system of collaborative intelligence, where human expertise and AI capabilities complement each other to build collective wisdom. At the heart of this integration […]
AWS – AWS Compute Optimizer now supports idle resource recommendation
Today, AWS announces that AWS Compute Optimizer now supports recommendations to help you identify idle AWS resources. With this new recommendation type, you will be able to identify resources that are un-used and may be candidates for turning off or deleting, resulting in cost savings. With the new idle resource recommendation, you will be able […]
GCP – Announcing new updates to Cloud Translation AI, now covering 189 languages
Your next big customer doesn’t speak your language. In fact, 40% of global consumers won’t even consider buying from websites not in their native tongue. With 51.6% of internet users speaking languages other than English, you’re potentially missing half your market. Until now, enterprises faced an impossible choice in addressing translation use cases. They had […]