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AWS – Amazon Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling, now available in the Europe (London) AWS Region
Amazon Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling (preview) are now available in the Europe (London) AWS Region. Machine-learning powered capabilities make it easier for contact center managers to help predict contact volumes and average handle time with high accuracy, determine ideal staffing levels, and optimize agent schedules to ensure they have the right agents at […]
GCP – Connecting Apigee to GKE using headless services and Cloud DNS
We’ve recently supported an organization who wanted to expose its Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) backend behind Apigee X. A quite common architecture, which most of the users delivering modern web applications on Google Cloud tend to build upon. In this scenario, Google’s API gateway, Apigee, receives requests and performs L7 routing, redirecting you to the […]
GCP – Updates coming for Authorized Networks and Cloud Run/Functions on GKE
We recently received helpful information through the Vulnerability Rewards Program for Authorized Networks and Cloud Run/Functions on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Based on that information, we updated our product documentation and prioritized a plan to make engineering changes to GKE to restrict access to only GKE-related services. Those changes will roll out automatically to over […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune simplifies graph analytics and machine learning workflows with Python integration
You can now run graph analytics and machine learning tasks on graph data stored in Amazon Neptune using an open-source Python integration that simplifies data science and ML workflows. With this integration, you can read and write graph data stored in Neptune using Pandas DataFrames in any Python environment, such as a local Jupyter notebook […]
Azure – Public preview: Azure NetApp Files datastores for Azure VMware Solution
Optimize and scale storage for Azure VMware Solution environments. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS IoT Device Management announces an 80% price reduction for Secure Tunneling
We are excited to announce that today we are reducing the price of the AWS IoT Device Management Secure Tunneling feature by 80%. With the improved cost efficiencies, customers can now scale Secure Tunneling to access remote devices deployed behind restricted firewalls for troubleshooting, configuration updates, training, and other operational tasks for their growing IoT […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
AWS Security Hub is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. You can now centrally view and manage the security posture of your AWS accounts in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB Standard-Infrequent Access table class is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Amazon DynamoDB Standard-Infrequent Access (DynamoDB Standard-IA) table class is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. The DynamoDB Standard-IA table class is ideal for use cases that require long-term storage of data that is infrequently accessed, such as application logs, social media posts, e-commerce order history, and past gaming achievements. Read More for […]
Azure – General availability: Trusted launch support for virtual machines using Ephemeral OS disks
Trusted launch virtual machine (VM) support for VMs using Ephemeral OS disks improves the security of generation 2 VMs in Azure. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR 6.6 adds support for Apache Spark 3.2, HUDI 0.10.1, Iceberg 0.13, Trino 0.367, PrestoDB 0.267, and more
Amazon EMR release 6.6 now supports Apache Spark 3.2, Apache Spark RAPIDS 22.02, CUDA 11, Apache Hudi 0.10.1, Apache Iceberg 0.13, Trino 0.367, and PrestoDB 0.267. You can use the performance-optimized version of Apache Spark 3.2 on EMR on EC2, EKS, and recently released EMR Serverless. In addition Apache Hudi 0.10.1 and Apache Iceberg 0.13 […]