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GCP – 2021 Accelerate State of DevOps report addresses burnout, team performance
Over the past seven years, more than 32,000 professionals worldwide have taken part in the Accelerate State of DevOps reports, making it the largest and longest-running research of its kind. Year over year, the Accelerate State of DevOps reports provide data-driven industry insights that examine the capabilities and practices that drive software delivery as well […]
AWS – Optimize your Amazon Forecast model with the accuracy metric of your choice
We’re excited to announce that in Amazon Forecast, you can now select the accuracy metric of your choice to direct AutoML to optimize training a predictor for the selected accuracy metric. Additionally, we have added three more accuracy metrics to evaluate your predictor – average weighted quantile loss (Average wQL), mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), […]
GCP – Google Cloud research credits expand to nonprofit researchers
To fuel the breakthroughs of the future, today’s researchers need easy access to the most innovative cloud technologies. That’s why we are delighted to announce the latest expansion of Google Cloud research credits beyond its previous scope of government and academic research institutions to researchers at nonprofit institutions. This initiative is part of our ongoing […]
GCP – Deploying the Cloud Spanner Emulator locally
Welcome to the second part of our series on the Cloud Spanner Emulator. In the first part, we got an overview of Cloud Spanner and the emulator, as well as the various ways that it can be provisioned. Today, we will learn about running the Cloud Spanner emulator locally and containerizing + deploying the backend […]
Azure – Public preview: Management Group Scope for Azure Reservations
You can now purchase and change existing reservations to scope them to a management group. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Dynamic Instance Type Selection
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports dynamic instance type selection for Elastic Beanstalk’s environments. This means Elastic Beanstalk will automatically fetch all compatible instance types for you to run a variety of applications. With dynamic instance type, you can choose the best suited instance type to optimize your application’s performance. For example, if you have machine […]
AWS – Amazon Detective supports S3 and DNS finding types, adds finding details
Amazon Detective expands security investigation support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and DNS-related findings on Amazon GuardDuty, providing full coverage of all detections from GuardDuty. Along with this, Detective now makes it even easier for a security analyst to investigate entities and behaviors using a revamped user experience. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect Chat now supports passing a customer display name and contact attributes through the chat user interface
Amazon Connect Chat now supports passing a customer display name and contact attributes through the chat user interface so you can personalize the chat customer experience. Contact attributes include relevant metadata associated with the contact such as customer ID, loyalty status, or even context about the webpage the customer was on when they started the chat. […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Cross-Account Data Sharing is now generally available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Redshift data sharing allows you to share live and transactionally consistent data across different Redshift clusters without the complexity and delays associated with data copies and data movement. Ability to share data across clusters that are in the same AWS account is already available in AWS GovCloud(US) Regions. Now sharing data across Redshift clusters in different […]
AWS – AWS announces General Availability of the Amazon GameLift Plug-in and AWS CloudFormation Templates for Unity
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of the Amazon GameLift Plug-in for Unity, making it easier to access GameLift resources and integrate GameLift into your Unity game. Trusted by some of the most successful game companies in the world like Ubisoft and Gungho, GameLift deploys, operates, and scales dedicated servers for […]