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AWS – Amazon Connect now supports interactive welcome messages when starting chats
Amazon Connect Chat now enables you to greet customers with interactive messages when starting chats, delivering contextual and personalized experiences that improve engagement and self-service resolution rates. For example, when a customer visits a product page and opens the chat widget, they receive a contextual greeting with options to compare similar products, check store availability, […]

AWS – AWS Chatbot is now named Amazon Q Developer
AWS Chatbot is now called Amazon Q Developer. The new name recognizes the integration of Amazon Q Developer, the most capable generative AI-powered assistant for software development, in Microsoft Teams and Slack to manage and optimize AWS resources. With Amazon Q Developer, customers can monitor, operate, and troubleshoot AWS resources in chat channels faster. Customers […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports minors 11.4.5, 10.11.11, 10.6.21, 10.5.28
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 11.4.5, 10.11.11, 10.6.21, and 10.5.28. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community. […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 M6a instances now available in AWS Europe (Paris)
Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M6a instances are now available in AWS Europe (Paris) region. M6a instances are powered by third-generation AMD EPYC processors, and deliver up to 35% better price performance than comparable M5a instances. These instances offer 10% lower cost than comparable x86-based EC2 instances. With this additional region, M6a instances are […]

AWS – Amazon RDS Data API for Aurora is now available in 10 additional AWS regions
RDS Data API for Aurora Serverless v2 and Aurora provisioned PostgreSQL-Compatible and MySQL-Compatible database clusters is now available in Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan), Europe (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), and South America (São Paulo) regions. RDS Data API allows […]

AWS – AWS CodeBuild adds support for managed webhooks in GitHub Enterprise
AWS CodeBuild’s support for managed webhooks now extends to include GitHub Enterprise. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. Customers using GitHub Enterprise as their source provider previously had to manually create webhooks for CodeBuild to receive events. CodeBuild now […]

AWS – Amazon Data Firehose is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) regions
Amazon Data Firehose is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) regions. Amazon Data Firehose is the easiest way to load streaming data into data stores and analytics tools. You can capture, transform, and deliver streaming data into Amazon S3, Apache Iceberg Tables, Amazon S3 Tables, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Redshift, and […]

AWS – Amazon ECS adds support for additional IAM condition keys
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) today launched 8 new service-specific condition keys for Identity and Access Management (IAM). These new condition keys let you create IAM policies as well as Service Control Policies (SCPs) to better enforce your organizational policies in containerized environments. IAM condition keys allow you to author policies that enforce access […]

AWS – AWS CodeBuild adds support for managed runners for GitLab Self-Managed
AWS CodeBuild now supports managed runners for GitLab Self-Managed. Customers can configure their CodeBuild projects to receive GitLab Self-Managed CI/CD job events and run them on CodeBuild ephemeral hosts. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. This feature allows GitLab […]
GCP – Inter-VPC connectivity architecture patterns in Cross-Cloud Network
Connecting hybrid environments to the cloud is a very important aspect of cloud architecture. In addition to connecting from on-premises environments, you also have multicloud environments that all need to communicate. In this blog we will look at some reference architectures for hub-and-spoke communication using Cross-Cloud Network. The power of Cross-Cloud Network As your cloud […]