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GCP – Run your fault-tolerant workloads cost-effectively with Google Cloud Spot VMs, now GA
Available in GA today, you can now begin deploying Spot VMs in your Google Cloud projects to start saving now. For an overview of Spot VMs, see our Preview launch blog and for a deeper dive, check out our Spot VM documentation. Modern applications such as microservices, containerized workloads, and horizontal scalable applications are engineered […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra releases Jira connector to enable document search on JIRA repository
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Amazon customers can now use The Amazon Kendra Jira Cloud connector to index documents from Atlassian Jira. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now backfills Predictive Scaling forecasts so you can quickly validate forecast accuracy
Starting today, when you create a new predictive scaling policy, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling goes back 14 days to generate capacity forecasts for the past dates, enabling you to see how predictive scaling would have scaled your Auto Scaling group. This allows you to quickly decide if the predictive scaling policy is accurate for your applications […]
AWS – Incident Manager from AWS Systems Manager expands support for runbook automation
Incident Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, announces expanded support for runbook automation to speed up incident diagnosis and resolution. AWS Systems Manager is the operations hub for your AWS applications and resources, helping you automate reactive processes to quickly diagnose and remediate operational issues. Customers can now build incident runbooks that automatically run remediation […]
AWS – Amazon Chime SDK now supports video background replacement and blur on iOS and Android
The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add intelligent real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web applications. The Amazon Chime SDK client libraries for iOS and Android now include video background replacement and blur, which developers can use to reduce visual distractions and help increase visual privacy for mobile users. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect Customer Profiles launches in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Amazon Connect now allows you to use Amazon Connect Customer Profiles in Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS region. When a customer contacts your customer service department, you can now provide your agents and interactive voice response (IVR) solutions with up to date information about the customer, enabling faster and more personalized customer service. Customer Profiles brings […]
Azure – Generally available: Easily manage your Azure IoT Central dashboards using a catalog
The new dashboard catalog feature in Azure IoT Central allows for easier search, management, and navigation of dashboards. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Backup support for trusted launch Azure Virtual Machines
Configure backup of your trusted launch Azure Virtual Machines through enhanced policy Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Glue now provides APIs to create and manage AWS Glue Studio visual jobs
AWS Glue Visual Job APIs are now generally available, allowing customers to programmatically create, read, update, and delete AWS Glue studio visual jobs. AWS Glue Studio provides an intuitive visual interface for users to author data integration jobs. Customers want to programmatically create visual jobs in AWS Glue Studio so that they could migrate from […]
AWS – Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.8.30
Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.8.30, which includes several fixes to the previously supported version, RabbitMQ 3.8.27. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easier to set up and operate message brokers on AWS. You can reduce your operational burden by using Amazon […]