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AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Europe (Frankfurt) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 18TiB of memory (u-18tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Europe (Frankfurt) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart […]
GCP – Join Google Cloud Security Summit 2024 for a masterclass in modernizing security
As your organization works to strengthen your security program, two complementary initiatives can help make a major impact: taking advantage of secure cloud platforms, and integrating dynamic intelligence and security operations. We’re emphasizing both of these in the dual-track agenda at our annual Google Cloud Security Summit on August 20. Join us to learn about […]
GCP – Announcing LangChain on Vertex AI for AlloyDB and Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL
Among application developers, LangChain is one of the most popular open-source LLM orchestration frameworks. To help developers use LangChain to create context-aware gen AI applications with Google Cloud databases, in March we open-sourced LangChain integrations for all of our Google Cloud databases including Vector stores, Document loaders, and Chat message history. And now, we’re excited […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now supports additional agent scheduling staffing rules
Amazon Connect now supports additional agent scheduling staffing rules, making it easier to schedule agents while complying with labor, union, and other contractual rules. You can now configure five new rules for scheduling agents in Amazon Connect: minimum rest period between shifts, minimum rest period per week, maximum consecutive working days, maximum consecutive day of […]
AWS – Elastic Load Balancing Trust Store now supports cross-account sharing using AWS Resource Access Manager
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) Trust Stores now supports a new capability that enables cross-account sharing via AWS RAM (Resource Access Manager). This feature allows customers to centrally manage their ELB Trust Stores across multiple accounts to streamline trust store management and enable consistent Mutual TLS configurations across Application Load Balancers (ALBs). With this launch, ELB […]
AWS – Amazon DataZone offers business use case-based grouping with data products
Today, Amazon DataZone introduces data products, which enable the grouping of data assets into well-defined, self-contained packages tailored for specific business use cases. For example, a marketing analysis data product can bundle various data assets, such as marketing campaign data, pipeline data, and customer data. With data products, customers can simplify discovery and subscription processes, […]
AWS – Amazon Verified Permissions improves support for OIDC identity providers
Amazon Verified Permissions has simplified implementing fine-grained authorization for developers using third party identity providers, such as Okta, CyberArk and Transmit security. Developers can now authorize user actions, based on attributes and group memberships, managed within their own open id connect (OIDC) compliant identity provider. For example, in a insurance claims processing application, you can […]
AWS – AWS CodeBuild now supports three new Arm-based compute types
AWS CodeBuild now supports building and testing your software applications on three new Arm-based compute types: Medium, X-Large and 2X-Large. You can select up to 48 vCPUs and 96 GB memory to run more resource-intensive workloads. With the addition of these new compute types, you now have similar compute options for running x86 and Arm […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now supports audio optimization for Amazon WorkSpaces cloud desktops
Amazon Connect now makes it easier to deliver high-quality voice experiences in Amazon WorkSpaces Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments. Amazon Connect automatically optimizes audio by redirecting media from your agent’s local desktop to Connect, simplifying the agent experience and improving audio quality by reducing network hops. Agents can simply log into their Amazon WorkSpaces client […]
AWS – AWS Resilience Hub introduces improved resource grouping capabilities
Today, AWS Resilience Hub is launching improved resource grouping to more intelligently group your resources into Application Components, which are resources that work and fail as a single unit, when onboarding your application. Customers who want to manage and improve the resilience posture of their applications on AWS can now more quickly and easily onboard […]