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GCP – Retailers now need to “always be pivoting.” Here’s three moves keeping them going
For years, retailers have been told that they must embrace a litany of new technologies, trends, and imperatives like online shopping, mobile apps, omnichannel, and digital transformation. In search of growth and stability, retailers adopted many of these, only to realize that for every box they ticked, there was another one waiting. And then the […]
AWS – Amazon Corretto January Quarterly Updates
On January 18th, Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions. Corretto 11.0.14 and 8.322 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto 17 updates will be available shortly after the release is tagged in the OpenJDK 17 repository. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Read More […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Studio is now available in US West (N. California)
EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug big data and analytics applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark. Today, we are excited to announce that EMR Studio is now available in US West (N. California) region. Read More for the […]
AWS – AWS Storage Gateway management console simplifies gateway creation and management
AWS Storage Gateway now makes it simpler and faster for you to get started with setting up and managing your hybrid cloud storage workflow. Using the Storage Gateway management console, you can now quickly create a new gateway in four easy steps: First, complete your local gateway setup. Second, connect your gateway to AWS. Third, activate […]
AWS – Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.8.26
Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.8.26. This patch update to RabbitMQ contains several fixes and enhancements compared to the previously supported version, RabbitMQ 3.8.23. Read More for the details.
GCP – BigQuery Explainable AI now in GA to help you interpret your machine learning models
Explainable AI(XAI) helps you understand and interpret how your machine learning models make decisions. We’re excited to announce that BigQuery Explainable AI is now generally available (GA). BigQuery is the data warehouse that supports explainable AI in a most comprehensive way w.r.t both XAI methodology and model types. It does this at BigQuery scale, enabling […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds service monitoring for Microsoft Active Directory and SharePoint
Now you can easily and automatically setup monitoring, alarms and dashboards for your Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft SharePoint setups running on AWS with CloudWatch Application Insights. CloudWatch Application Insights is a service that helps customers monitor and troubleshoot their enterprise applications running on AWS resources. The new feature adds automatic discovery of Active Directory […]
AWS – AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports failback automation
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now supports automated, scalable failback to vCenter servers. The new DRS Mass Failback Automation client (DRSFA client) offers additional flexibility and speed for large-scale failback. It allows you to fail back multiple vCenter servers to your primary vCenter environment at the same time. Using the DRSFA client, you can fail […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Automation now enables you to take action in third-party applications through webhooks
AWS Systems Manager now enables you to send notifications or take actions in third-party tools and applications using outbound webhooks. Outbound webhooks offer a simplified way to integrate with many of the tools you use, such as Slack. Now you can invoke an outbound webhook as a step in your Automation runbook to easily integrate […]
AWS – Now remediate operational issues faster by executing AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks from Slack
AWS Systems Manager Automation now allows you to execute runbooks from Slack to perform operational tasks, resolve issues, and take actions safely in your AWS environment using AWS Chatbot. You can now search for Automation runbooks, provide the necessary inputs, and execute the runbook directly from Slack channels. You can also track the progress and […]