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AWS – Amazon Connect now supports custom contact attributes as search filters on the contact search page
Amazon Connect now supports custom contact attributes as search filters on the contact search page. You can now add up to 15 custom contact attributes to the search filter and use them to build your search queries. For example, if you have created “AgentLocation” as a custom contact attribute, you can now use it as […]

AWS – Announcing preview for write queries with Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling
Amazon Redshift now scales write queries with Concurrency Scaling. Concurrency Scaling supports virtually unlimited concurrent users and concurrent queries, with consistently fast query performance. Now your write queries such as COPY, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE can run on transient Concurrency Scaling clusters when there is queueing. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports Kafka multi-topic
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded functionality by adding support for Kafka multi-topic with a single task. Using AWS DMS, you can now replicate multiple schemas from a single database to different Kafka topics using the same task. This eliminates the need to create multiple separate tasks in situations where many tables from the […]

AWS – You can now securely connect to your Amazon MSK clusters over the internet
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now offers an option to securely connect to Amazon MSK clusters over the internet. By enabling public access, authorized clients external to a private Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) can stream encrypted data in and out of specific Amazon MSK clusters. You can enable public access for […]

AWS – Announcing AWS Graviton2-based instances for Amazon Neptune
Starting today, Amazon Neptune announced the general availability of general-purpose T4g and memory-optimized R6g database instances powered by the AWS Graviton2 processor. AWS Graviton2-based instances deliver up to 40% better price performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances for a variety of workloads. Customers running graph workloads using Apache TinkerPop Gremlin, openCypher, or W3C SPARQL 1.1 query languages […]

Azure – Public preview: Node.js 16 in Azure Functions
Node.js 16.x is the latest Long Term Support (LTS) release of the Node.js runtime and includes features such as a new version of the V8 JavaScript engine. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Site Recovery update rollup 59 is now generally available – November 2021
Information about the improvements and fixes provided in Update Rollup 59. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Athena adds console support for visualizing AWS Step Functions workflows
You can now manage AWS Step Functions workflows from the Amazon Athena console, making it easier to build scalable data processing pipelines, execute queries based on custom business logic, automate administrative and alerting tasks, and more. Read More for the details.

GCP – How Sabre is using SRE to lead a successful digital transformation
Editor’s note: Today we hear from Kenny Kon, an SRE Director at Sabre. Kenny shares about how they have been able to successfully adopt Google’s SRE framework by leveraging their partnership with Google Cloud. As a leader in the travel industry, Sabre Corporation is driving innovation in the global travel industry and developing solutions that […]
GCP – Get to know the Google Cloud certifications in 1 minute
You might have noticed a series of short videos introducing various Google Cloud certifications being published over the last few months. We created a dedicated Cloud Certifications Playlist to organize this new content to give you an easy way to scan all the Google Cloud Certifications, what they are and where to get started. In […]