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AWS – Amazon Pinpoint launches journey endpoint re-evaluation logic for the Contact Center activity
Journeys in Amazon Pinpoint can now automatically re-evaluate each journey participant before sending them through a Contact Center activity. In Amazon Pinpoint, journeys are multi-step campaigns that can be used across several channels, including SMS, email, push, and voice. Journeys are intended for customers who have user engagement use cases, and who want to send […]

AWS – AWS Storage Gateway is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
AWS Storage Gateway is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS Performance Insights now supports new API endpoints
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Performance Insights is a database performance tuning and monitoring feature of RDS and Aurora that helps you quickly assess the load on your database and determine when and where to take action. One way to view Performance Insights data is in the AWS Management Console. Performance Insights also provides a […]

GCP – How to make hybrid meetings more inclusive
As we enter 2022, it’s clear that hybrid meetings will be a mainstay of how work happens for millions of people around the world. Across the Google Workspace team, we spent much of last year improving the hybrid experience within our tools, especially in Google Meet. New features like automatic noise cancellation, new virtual backgrounds, […]

AWS – AWS Systems Manager announces support for categorizing documents of type Command Document
Today, AWS Systems Manager announces support for categorizing Amazon owned Command documents for easy discoverability. AWS Systems Manager is the operational hub for AWS, that provides a unified user interface to track and resolve operational issues across AWS applications from a central place. An AWS Systems Manager document (SSM document) defines the actions that Systems […]

GCP – 10 questions to help boards safely maximize cloud opportunities
The accelerating pursuit of cloud-enabled digital transformations brings new growth opportunities to organizations, but also raises new challenges. To ensure that they can lock in newfound agility, quality improvements, and marketplace relevance, boards of directors must prioritize safe, secure, and compliant adoption processes that support this new technological environment. The adoption of cloud at scale […]

Azure – General availability: Multiple custom BGP APIPA addresses for active VPN gateways
Get more flexibility for your on-premises BGP connections to Azure and create BGP-enabled VPN connections between Azure and other cloud providers. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Static Web Apps enterprise-grade edge
Extend your Static Web App with a zero-config enterprise-grade edge powered by Azure Front Door. Read More for the details.

Azure – Announcing price reductions for Azure confidential computing
Lower prices for Azure confidential computing virtual machines Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 22.01 expected on Jan 26
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing. Read More for the details.