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AWS – Amazon Connect now enables you to create and orchestrate tasks directly from Flows
Amazon Connect now allows customers to create and orchestrate tasks directly from contact flows based on customer input (e.g., Dual tone multi frequency (DTMF)) or call, chat, and task information (e.g., type, priority/urgency, category, schedule data/time) without any coding required. For example, when a customer reaches out after office hours, you can automatically create a task […]

AWS – Unified Search in the AWS Management Console now includes blogs, knowledge articles, events, and tutorials
We are excited to announce that blogs, knowledge articles, events, and tutorials are available in Unified Search to enable users to easily search and discover information in the AWS Management Console. AWS users can now search for blogs (e.g., Implementing Auto Scaling for EC2 Mac Instances), knowledge articles (e.g., Set Your Preferences for AWS Emails), […]

AWS – Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 G5 instances
Today we are announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 G5 instances powered by NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs. G5 instances can be used for a wide range of graphics intensive and machine learning use cases. They deliver up to 3x higher performance for graphics-intensive applications and machine learning inference, and up to 3.3x higher […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now generates additional data insights and recommendations
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains, and tunes the best machine learning models based on your data, while allowing you to maintain full control and visibility. As a part of building models, SageMaker Autopilot automatically cleans, prepares and preprocesses data to optimize performance of machine learning models. Starting today, Autopilot generates several additional data insights that […]

AWS – Amazon announces new NVIDIA Triton Inference Server on Amazon SageMaker
Today, we are excited to announce NVIDIA Triton™ Inference Server on Amazon SageMaker, enabling customers who choose NVIDIA Triton as their model server to bring their containers and deploy them at scale in SageMaker. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Citrix supports Virtual Apps and Desktop Service on Azure VMware Solution
Citrix has announced official support for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops on Azure VMware Solution. With this announcement you gain more choice and flexibility in the migration and modernization of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure to Azure. Read More for the details.

AWS – Sheet Change Performance Optimizations is now generally available for Amazon QuickSight
Amazon QuickSight now only refreshes visuals when switching sheets if required, such as when a parameter filter change is made. This creates a seamless sheet change experience for users by further enhancing QuickSight visual load time performance. Read More for the details.

GCP – How Google Cloud BigQuery enables big DevOps at JFrog
Editor’s note: Today we’re hearing from Mitali Bisht, Software Engineer at JFrog on how BigQuery and Data Studio powers operational analytics on the JFrog DevOps Platform. At JFrog, we know that keeping DevOps running smoothly requires knowing as much as you can about those operations. It’s a key principle of Artifactory, our artifact repository manager […]

GCP – Modernizing compliance: Introducing Risk and Compliance as Code
Almost all publicly reported breaches in the cloud stem from misconfigurations, rather than from attacks that compromise underlying cloud infrastructure. Misconfigurations continue to be a source of security risk because most security and compliance practices play catchup – teams are involved later in the CI/CD process and misconfigurations are identified at runtime, instead of during […]
GCP – Update on Google Cloud’s Work with the U.S. Government
The United States Department of Defense is set to issue the replacement for its JEDI cloud procurement framework, and renamed the new framework JWCC. Recently, there has been some speculation and confusion regarding Google’s interest in participating in the framework and other workstreams the Google Cloud team has been working on with the government, including […]