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AWS – AWS Chatbot announces support for management of AWS resources from Slack (General Availability)
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of a feature that allows AWS Chatbot customers to manage AWS resources and remediate issues in AWS workloads from their Slack channels. AWS Chatbot customers can do this by by running AWS CLI commands and AWS System Manager Automation Runbooks from Slack channels. Previously, AWS […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora T4g instance type, powered by AWS Graviton2 processors, is now available in Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris) and Europe (Stockholm) Regions
AWS Graviton2-based T4g database instances are now available in Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm) regions for Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Backup Audit Manager adds new controls to help prove compliance of maintaining immutable backups across AWS Regions and accounts
AWS Backup Audit Manager adds new controls to further simplify the compliance auditing and reporting of your data protection policies. You now have controls for ‘cross-Region copy’ and ‘cross-account copy’, which enable you to demonstrate compliance of creating logical air-gapped backups across AWS Regions and AWS Accounts in accordance with your disaster recovery strategy. Additionally, you […]
AWS – The Amazon Chime SDK now supports Amazon Polly
The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, screen-sharing, and messaging capabilities to their web or mobile applications. Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Starting today, the Amazon Chime SDK supports native integration with Amazon Polly, making it easy for builders to create applications that turn text and numerical […]
AWS – AWS announces AWS Billing Conductor
Starting today, customers can use AWS Billing Conductor to easily provide customizable pricing and cost visibility for their end customers or business units. The AWS Billing Conductor does not impact the billing and invoicing relationship between customers and AWS. AWS Billing Conductor is intended for customers who have specific showback and chargeback needs. Read More […]
GCP – Doctors notes to data insights: How natural language processing helps decode healthcare
Aches and pains. What, if anything, is the difference between those? And do you know a “myocardial infarction” from a “heart attack”? What about an “MI”? Is that shorthand, or part of the address of a hospital in Michigan? For people, it can be easy to understand the distinctions and nuances between similar words, phrases, […]
GCP – The 2022 NRF “Big Show” validates retail’s need to leverage digital connectivity and data to transform business
For a look ahead at the trends that will animate the retail industry this year, let’s take a look back at the 2022 National Retail Federation (NRF) “Big Show” in NYC. Attendees at January’s event were treated to tangible examples of how retail challenges are being solved today, including new solutions to help them parse […]
Azure – General availability: Enablement of combined security information registration for Azure Active Directory
Beginning 1 October 2022, combined registration for multifactor authentication and self-service password reset is rolling out to you. Read More for the details.
GCP – Introducing Last Mile Fleet Solution: Maximize fleet performance from ecommerce order to doorstep delivery
These days, convenience is a way of life. Consumers rely on deliveries more than ever before and they expect these deliveries to be fast, reliable and low cost. In fact, ecommerce shipments are on track to double by 20261 and 90% of U.S. consumers expect free two-to-three-day shipping.2 This means last mile fleet operators have to work […]
Azure – Community support for .NET 5 is ending on 8 May 2022
Community support for .NET 5 will end on 8 May 2022 – transition to .NET 6 by that date Read More for the details.