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AWS – Introducing Performance Dashboard on AWS
Starting today, AWS customers can use the Performance Dashboard on AWS, a new open source AWS Solutions Implementation, to build, deploy, and maintain customizable dashboards designed to increase transparency between governments and their constituents around the performance of public sector services and initiatives. Read More for the details.
AWS – Alexa for Business now available on Zoom Rooms appliances
Alexa for Business is now available to run directly on Zoom Rooms Appliances, enabling customers with voice-activated control without deploying additional hardware. Users get a touch-free way to interact with Zoom Rooms and keep meetings on track by leveraging Alexa to join meetings and be reminded to wrap up when a meeting is about to […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra launches dynamic relevance tuning
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, that enables organizations to provide more relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, Amazon Kendra is giving AWS customers more control when it comes to optimizing search results for end users with the release of dynamic relevance tuning. Read More […]
GCP – Simplify your Chrome OS migration with Parallels Desktop
As businesses everywhere work to reduce overhead and shift to hybrid working models, they’re increasingly recognizing the value of Chrome OS. Earlier this year, Chrome OS was recognized as the 2nd largest operating system in the world. Unique benefits like multi-layered security, a plethora of remote management options, and easy cloud deployment make it an […]
AWS – Amazon Translate increases the size limit of Parallel data from 1GB to 5GB
Amazon Translate is a fully managed, neural machine translation service that delivers real-time, high-quality, affordable and customizable language translation. Today, we are announcing that Amazon Translate has increased the size limit of parallel data (PD) from 1 GB to 5 GB. PD is used in Active Custom Translation (ACT), a feature that gives you more […]
AWS – Amazon SNS grows the set of message filtering operators
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) message filtering lets you simplify your pub/sub messaging architecture by offloading message filtering logic from your subscriber systems as well as message routing logic from your publisher systems. Amazon SNS message filtering offers a set of matching operators, which enables you to filter messages based on their attribute keys […]
GCP – Introducing new connectors for Workflows
Workflows is a service to orchestrate not only Google Cloud services, such as Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, or machine learning APIs, but also external services. As you might expect from an orchestrator, Workflows allows you to define the flow of your business logic, as steps, in a YAML or JSON definition language, and provides an […]
GCP – How to use multi-VPC networking in Google Cloud VMware Engine
Not too long ago, we wrote about some key new capabilities in Google Cloud VMware Engine. One of the new main innovations we announced was multi-VPC connectivity, or the ability to connect the same VMware Private Cloud (that’s the name we use at Google to describe what VMware calls a Software Defined Datacenter, or SDDC) […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Now Supports PostgreSQL 13 in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports major version 13 in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. PostgreSQL 13 includes improved functionality and performance from new features and enhancements such as de-duplication of B-tree index entries, improved performance for queries that use partitioned tables, incremental sorting to accelerate data sorts, parallel processing of indexes with the VACUUM command, […]
Azure – New Azure VMs for general purpose and memory intensive workloads now in public preview
New Dv5, Dsv5, Ddv5, Ddsv5, and Ev5, Edv5 series Azure Virtual Machines deliver increased scalability and an upgraded CPU architecture, including better price to performance compared to the prior generation. The new VMs – now in public preview – run on the 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake) processor in a hyper-threaded configuration. […]