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GCP – How Chalo uses Google Maps Platform to transform the bus passenger experience
Vinayak Bhavnani, Co-Founder and CTO of India-based bus transport technology company Chalo, shares how Google Maps Platform is used to improve visibility for commuters and bus operators across India by visualizing geospatial data. Effective public transport networks contribute to the local economy and help make cities safe, pleasant, and sustainable. In India, buses make up […]

AWS – AWS Announces general availability of the first AWS Wavelength Zone in Canada
Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Wavelength on the Bell 5G network in Toronto. Enterprises, application developers, and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), can now use the AWS Wavelength Zone in Toronto to build ultra-low latency applications for mobile devices and end-users in Canada. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Connect launches API to search for users by name, agent hierarchies, and tags
Amazon Connect now provides a new API to search for user records in your Amazon Connect instance. This new API provides a programmatic and flexible way to search for users by first name, last name, username, routing profile, security profile, agent hierarchies or tags. For example, you can now use this API to search for […]

AWS – Amazon SES V2 now supports email size of up to 40MB for inbound and outbound emails by default
With V2 of Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), you can now send and receive emails of up to 40MB message size (including the email text, images, attachments, and the MIME encoding). Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Nimble Studio is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region
Amazon Nimble Studio is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. Deploying Nimble Studio in your local region provides users with a more responsive experience. In just a few hours, you can create a new studio environment in which creative talent can access virtual workstations powered by Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) G4dn instances, […]

GCP – 10 considerations to help you design cloud networks
Designing your cloud network can be a critical part of your cloud journey. How the final design looks will depend on your own use case. Thinking ahead can save you some time and help avoid potential issues in the future. These ten tips provide some insight into helping you design a better cloud network architecture […]

AWS – Announcing consolidated view of Lambda Insights via Application Insights
You can now easily setup AWS Lambda monitoring and view the health of the Lambda functions via Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights problems directly from the Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights console. This integration makes it easier to dive deep into issues, troubleshoot problems and reduce mean time to resolution for your Lambda functions. The simple set up and problem […]

AWS – Amazon Redshift launches RA3 instances in the Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan), Middle East (Bahrain) and Africa (Cape Town) regions
Amazon Redshift RA3 instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan), Middle East (Bahrain) and Africa (Cape Town) regions. Amazon Redshift RA3 instances with managed storage allow you to scale and pay for compute and storage independently for fast query performance and lower costs, and also enable you to more securely and […]

Azure – Generally available: Controls to block domain fronting behavior on customer resources
Block domain fronting behavior on Azure Front Door, Azure Front Door (classic), and Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) resources. Read More for the details.
GCP – Announcing new simple query options in Cloud Logging
When you’re troubleshooting an issue, finding the root cause often involves finding specific logs generated by infrastructure and application code. The faster you can find logs, the faster you can confirm or refute your hypothesis about the root cause and resolve the issue! Today, we’re pleased to announce a dramatically simpler way to find logs […]