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AWS – AWS Batch adds support for cancelling queued jobs
AWS Batch now supports cancellation of jobs while they are waiting in the queue. This allows you to cancel jobs before they are executed. Also, if you are using the fair-share scheduling feature, you can cancel jobs with an outdated priority to make room for jobs submitted by other users to the same queue to […]
AWS – AWS announces support for Cost Allocation Tags on AWS Transit Gateway
AWS announces the general availability of support for Cost Allocation tags for the AWS Transit Gateway. With this capability, administrators can tag their AWS Transit Gateway resource and use AWS cost allocation tags to categorize and allocate costs by team, department or application. Until now, customers were able to only categorize their Attachment Hours costs […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens generative AI-powered agent performance evaluations (preview) now available in 6 new regions
Amazon Connect Contact Lens generative AI-powered agent performance evaluations (preview) are now available in Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS regions, providing managers with generative AI-powered recommendations for answers to questions in agent evaluation forms. Managers now receive additional agent behavioral insights (e.g., did […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor enhances dashboard and traffic suggestions
Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor has launched an updated console experience, including new features for visualizing configuration changes that can help you reduce latency for your application. With the refreshed dashboard, the Internet Monitor console now lets you easily find and take advantage of Internet Monitor’s breadth of capabilities. The Overview page summarizes statistics for all […]
AWS – AWS Wickr is now available in the Europe (Zurich) Region
AWS Wickr now allows you to establish a network in the Europe (Zurich) Region to help you meet data residency requirements, and other obligations. AWS Wickr is a security-first messaging and collaboration service with features designed to help keep your internal and external communications secure, private, and compliant. AWS Wickr protects one-to-one and group messaging, […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports minor versions 2016 GDR, 2017 CU31 GDR, 2019 GDR, 2022 GDR
New minor versions of Microsoft SQL Server are now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, providing performance enhancements and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports these latest minor versions of SQL Server 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2022 across the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. We encourage you to upgrade your […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL supports new minor version 8.0.39
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor version 8.0.39. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community. Learn more about the […]
AWS – AWS announces expanded service support in the AWS Console Mobile App
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing an integrated mobile experience for AWS services in the AWS Console Mobile App. AWS customers using the AWS Console Mobile App can now access 16 additional AWS services including AWS Systems Manager, AWS Developer Tools, and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, in accordance with their permissions via an integrated mobile […]
GCP – Experimenting with Gemini 1.5 Pro and vulnerability detection
Unpatched software vulnerabilities can have serious consequences. At Google Cloud, we want developers to reduce the risks they face by focusing on developing code that is secure by design and secure by default. While secure development can be time-consuming, generative AI can be used responsibly to help make that development process faster. At Google, we’ve […]
GCP – Hakuhodo Technologies: The transformative impact of SRE
Hakuhodo Technologies, a specialized technology company of the Hakuhodo DY Group — one of Japan’s leading advertising and media holding companies — is dedicated to enhancing our software development process to deliver new value and experiences to society and consumers through the integration of marketing and technology. Our IT Infrastructure Team at Hakuhodo Technologies operates […]