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AWS – The Amazon Chime SDK now offers enhanced echo reduction
The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, screen-sharing, and messaging capabilities to their web or mobile applications. The Amazon Chime SDK now offers machine learning (ML) based echo reduction to help improve audio experiences. Acoustic echoes disrupt meetings or conference calls when the sound played by the loudspeaker is picked up by […]

AWS – Elastic Beanstalk supports AWS Graviton-based Amazon EC2 instance types
Elastic Beanstalk now supports AWS Graviton-based Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types. AWS Graviton is an arm64-based processor built by Amazon that provides up to 40% better price-performance over a comparable x86-based processor. AWS Graviton on Elastic Beanstalk enables customers to benefit from the superior price-performance of arm64-based processors along with the ease-of-use of […]

AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports Google Cloud SQL for MySQL as a source
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded functionality by adding support for Google Cloud SQL for MySQL as a source. Using AWS DMS, you can now perform live migrations from Google Cloud SQL for MySQL to any AWS DMS supported targets. Read More for the details.

AWS – Elastic Fabric Adapter now supports new instance sizes within supported Amazon EC2 instance types
Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) now supports new instance sizes within the Amazon EC2 compute-optimized, GPU, and dense SSD storage instance types that support EFA. Until now, EFA could be enabled for select bare-metal instances or for the largest instance size that support EFA. Starting today, you can associate EFA with additional sizes within Amazon C5, G4, […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches versioning in datasets
Amazon QuickSight now supports dataset versioning, which allows dataset owners to understand historical changes within a dataset, preview a specific version, or revert back to a previous version if needed. Dataset versions can be viewed and tracked via the UI, allowing dataset owners to view versions and switch to a specific version via UI. Dataset Versions […]

GCP – Roche renews its selection of Google Workspace as its foundational digital collaboration partner
Founded in 1896, F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG is a Swiss-based global pharmaceutical firm with a purpose to do now what patients need next. In late 2020, as part of accelerating innovation for more than 100,000 Roche employees and a global network of business partners, the company signed a five-year agreement with Google Workspace to extend […]

GCP – Vodafone provides anonymized mobile phone signal data to help monitor the spread of COVID-19 and inform early warning systems for new outbreaks
Editor’s note: When Europe’s largest mobile communications company, Vodafone, was asked by the European Commission to help understand population movement across the European Union and the UK to help fight COVID-19, it was able to provide anonymized mobile network-based insights to answer the call. Here’s how Vodafone, with the support of Google Cloud, rapidly mobilized […]

Azure – Private preview: Root cause analysis, new telemetry, & alerts for SAP NetWeaver in AMS
View root cause analysis (RCA) for SAP system unavailability caused by virtual machine or host outage and new telemetry for SAP NetWeaver in Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions (AMS). Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: New SAP HANA telemetry in AMS
SAP HANA license status, delta merges, and more telemetry now available in Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions. Read More for the details.
Azure – Private preview: Root cause analysis for SAP system unavailability, new telemetry, & alerts for SAP NetWeaver in AMS
View root cause analysis (RCA) for SAP system unavailability caused by virtual machine or host outage and new telemetry for SAP NetWeaver in Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions (AMS). Read More for the details.