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AWS – Amazon Connect now allows you to get started with high-volume outbound communications (public preview) with just a few clicks
Amazon Connect now lets you get started with high-volume outbound communications with just a few clicks, enabling you to begin testing this feature. On the Amazon Connect navigation panel, choose the Telephony page, check the box to Enable high-volume outbound communication, and then choose Save. In a few minutes you will be ready to use […]
GCP – No more normal? No problem when you build supply chains with data and AI
What if, after all the upheavals and innovations of the past two years, we’re not headed for some new normal but instead an era of no more normal? “There are big, big challenges that need to be solved every single day by supply chain professionals,” Hans Thalbauer, Google Cloud’s managing director for supply chain and […]
AWS – Single account enrollment and update is now available in AWS Control Tower
AWS Control Tower now gives you the capability to enroll and update member accounts individually, from within your AWS Control Tower landing zone, with a single click. You can update your landing zone, remediate account drift, or enroll an account into a registered organizational unit (OU), in a few streamlined steps. Read More for the […]
AWS – AWS announces support for Dart Signature V4 for interacting with AWS services
The new Dart Signature V4 client allows developers to securely integrate with all 200+ AWS services using signed HTTP requests. This functionality enables Dart developers to make native calls to AWS backends in their Flutter or Dart applications, to make changes to the data or configurations of AWS services. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect high-volume outbound communications capabilities are now available in public preview in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS Region
Amazon Connect now supports high-volume outbound communications in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS region, making it easy to contact from hundreds to millions of customers daily for communications like delivery notifications, marketing promotions, appointment reminders, or debt collection. Amazon Connect’s high-volume outbound communications for calls, text and emails gives organizations a simple, embedded, cost-effective way […]
GCP – Snap Inc. adopts Google Cloud TPU for deep learning recommendation models
While many people still think of academic research when it comes to deep learning, Snap Inc. has been applying deep learning models to improve its recommendation engines on a daily basis. Using Google’s Cloud Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), Snap has accelerated its pace of innovation and model improvement to enhance the user experience. Snap’s blog […]
GCP – The Retirement Tracker simplifies and socializes early retirement on Google Cloud
A lot of people talk about retirement but far fewer people have the information and tools to plan for it properly. Just how much money you need to live comfortably once you stop working can be the million-dollar (or more!) question. Although there is no shortage of retirement calculators, many only provide a limited one-time […]
GCP – Achieving cloud-native network automation at a global scale with Nephio
In 2007, in order to meet ever increasing traffic demands of YouTube, Google started building what is now the Google Global Cache program. Over the past 15 years, we have added thousands of edge caching locations around the world, with widely varying hosting conditions—some in customer data centers, some in remote locations with limited connectivity. […]
GCP – Google Cloud helps ADAM and THOR find asteroids
Astronomical data is the oldest data collected by humankind. The oldest known systematic astronomical observations came from the Babylonians in 1000 BCE. In the second century BCE, the first stellar catalog was compiled by Greek astronomer Hipparchus of Nicaea, which would eventually make it into the hands of Roman astronomer Ptolemy three centuries later. Old […]
AWS – Amazon Genomics CLI v1.5.0 adds support for the Common Workflow Language (CWL) with Toil
Today, we are excited to announce that the Amazon Genomics CLI v1.5.0 has added support for workflows written in the Common Workflow Language (CWL) using the Toil workflow engine. In addition to CWL, the Amazon Genomics CLI supports workflows written with Workflow Definition Language (WDL), Nextflow, and Snakemake enabling customers to run a wide variety […]