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GCP – The overwhelmed person’s guide to Google Cloud: week of January 16
The content in this blog post was originally published last week as a members-only email to the Google Cloud Innovators community. To get this content directly in your inbox (not to mention lots of other benefits), sign up to be an Innovator today. New and shiny Three new things to know this week Trillium TPUs […]
GCP – Securing Cryptocurrency Organizations
Written by: Joshua Goddard The Rise of Crypto Heists and the Challenges in Preventing Them Cryptocurrency crime encompasses a wide range of illegal activities, from theft and hacking to fraud, money laundering, and even terrorist financing, all exploiting the unique characteristics of digital currencies. Cryptocurrency heists, specifically, refer to the large-scale theft of cryptocurrencies or […]
AWS – AWS CodeBuild now supports test splitting and parallelism
You can now split your tests and run them across multiple, parallel-running compute environments. Based on your sharding strategy, CodeBuild will divide your tests and run them across the specified number of parallel environments. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces ready-to-deploy software packages. As […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Tables are now available in five additional AWS Regions
Amazon S3 Tables are now available in five additional AWS Regions: Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support, and the easiest way to store tabular data at scale. S3 Tables are specifically optimized for analytics workloads, resulting […]
AWS – Amazon Connect outbound campaigns can connect a call with an agent in under 2 seconds
Amazon Connect outbound campaigns can now be configured to connect a customer who has picked up a campaign call to an available agent in under two seconds while also supporting automatic call classification. This enhancement helps organizations support regulatory compliance with telemarketing laws such as the U.S. Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), while increasing customer […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift announces support for two new geospatial H3 Indexing functions
Amazon Redshift extends support for Hexagonal Hierarchical Geospatial Indexing System, H3 for short, by adding two new H3 functions to Amazon Redshift’s previously announced H3 Indexing support in February 2024. H3 Indexing increases the performance of spatial queries at scale since the location information is pre-indexed. See this Amazon Big Data Blog on Amazon Redshift […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Screen Recording now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Connect screen recording is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West), expanding its reach to government and public sector customers. This feature, which enables customers to record their agent screens during customer interactions for quality assurance purposes, was previously available in all commercial AWS regions where Amazon Connect […]
AWS – Announcing AWS User Notifications GA on AWS CloudFormation
AWS User Notifications is now supported on AWS CloudFormation, allowing you to easily provision and manage User Notification resources as part of your application’s infrastructure-as-code (IaC). You can easily use User Notification to Configure Notifications to be sent via the Console Notifications Center, email, AWS Chatbot, or mobile push notifications to the AWS Console Mobile […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now offers a public preview of persistent agent connections for faster call handling
Amazon Connect now offers the ability to maintain an open communication channel between your agents and Amazon Connect, helping reduce the time it takes to establish a connection with a customer. Contact center administrators can configure an agent’s user profile to maintain a persistent connection after a conversation ends, allowing for subsequent calls to connect […]
AWS – AWS Encryption SDK for Go now generally available
Developers can now use the AWS Encryption SDK for Go to help protect their data. This open-source release makes it easier for developers to encrypt and decrypt their data when building applications using the Go programming language. The AWS Encryption SDK is a client-side encryption library designed to make it easy to encrypt and decrypt […]