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GCP – Introducing new commitments on the processing of service data for our cloud customers
At Google, we engage regularly with customers, regulators, policymakers, and other stakeholders to provide transparency into our operations, policies, and practices and to further strengthen our commitment to privacy compliance. One such engagement is our ongoing work with the Dutch government regarding its Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) of Google Workspace and Workspace for Education. […]
GCP – Mercari leverages Google’s vector search technology to create a new marketplace
Mercari is one of the most successful marketplace services in recent years, with 5.3 million active users in the US and 20 million active users in Japan. In Oct 2021, the company launched a new service Mercari Shops in Japan that allows small business owners and individuals to open their e-commerce portal in 3 minutes. […]
AWS – Enable Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS from within the Amazon RDS Console
Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS now supports enablement from within the Amazon RDS Console. Starting today, you can enable Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS to quickly detect, diagnose, and remediate a wide variety of database-related issues in Amazon Aurora databases while creating a new database. You can also now enable Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS from within […]
AWS – AWS Single Sign-On is now available in the Europe (Milan) Region
AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) is now available in the AWS Europe (Milan) Region. For a full list of the regions where AWS SSO is available, see the AWS Regional Services List. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect launches API to retrieve agents’ current activity
Amazon Connect now provides an API to programmatically access real-time details about agents’ current activity, such as current status (e.g., “Available”). If an agent is handling a contact, details include the contact’s state (e.g., “Connected” or “Missed”) and duration. Using this API, businesses can build custom dashboards for contact center supervisors to monitor their agents’ […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 supports in-place upgrade from MySQL 5.6 to 5.7
Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 now supports in-place upgrade from MySQL 5.6 to 5.7. Instead of backing up and restoring the database to the new version, you can upgrade with just a few clicks using the Amazon RDS Management Console or using the latest AWS SDK or CLI. No new cluster is created in the process […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces support for VPC endpoints
Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports VPC endpoints enabling secure, private connectivity to other AWS services. SageMaker Canvas is a visual point-and-click service that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML models for insights and predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience or having to write a single line of code. Read More […]
AWS – AWS Config now supports 15 new resource types
AWS Config now supports 15 new resource types including Amazon SageMaker, Elastic Load Balancing, AWS Batch, AWS Step Functions, AWS Identity and Access Management Access Analyzer, Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon Route 53 Resolver, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka, and AWS Database Migration Service. For the full list of newly supported resource types see [1]. Read […]
AWS – AWS Service Catalog’s Application Registry now supports cross-account applications.
Today, AWS Service Catalog announces support for cross-account AppRegistry applications and attribute groups. With this release, applications can now be shared within your AWS Organization enabling recipient accounts to associate their local resources to shared applications. If you have application resources deployed in more than one account within your AWS Organization, you can now maintain […]
AWS – Use PySpark and Altair code snippets to prepare and visualize data faster than ever in Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler
Today, we are making it faster and easier to prepare and visualize data using PySpark and Altair with support for code snippets in Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler. Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can […]