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GCP – HSBC deploys Dialogflow, easing call burden on policy experts
Banks are among the most highly regulated businesses on the planet, subject to regulations based on geography as well as their own internal policies and procedures. HSBC, a global giant in commercial and personal banking, has experts all over the world who support thousands of their risk management colleagues each time they need an internal […]
GCP – Mission Critical Services: for the most demanding enterprise environments
The last 12 months have been busy for us at Google Cloud. Our customers told us they wanted to have more support as they continued to scale their businesses on our global infrastructure. So, we overhauled our Voice of the Customer Programs, expanded our Customer Advisory Boards, and launched a brand-new, independently run Google Cloud […]
Azure – Azure Storage — Routing Preferences now generally available
Routing Preference for Azure Storage provide the flexibility to optimize traffic between clients external to Azure and your storage account for premium network reliability and performance over the Microsoft global network or for cost efficiency using the transit ISP network. You can now also publish route-specific endpoints for your storage account. Read More for the […]
Azure – New Norway East region added to Azure HDInsight
HDInsight is now generally available for Norway East customers. Read More for the details.
AWS – IAM Access Analyzer now enables you to validate public and cross-account access before deploying permissions changes
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer now enables you to validate access before deploying permissions changes. IAM Access Analyzer uses comprehensive policy analysis to provide provable security and generate findings for resource access. Now with IAM Access Analyzer, you can prevent public and cross-account access before you set permissions. You can preview findings and validate […]
AWS – AWS Backup adds support for continuous backup and point-in-time recovery of Amazon RDS instances
AWS Backup adds support for continuous backups and point-in-time recovery (PITR) of Amazon Relational Database (Amazon RDS) instances. You can now streamline your backup planning, management, and access control to Amazon RDS continuous backups in addition to the existing support of scheduled Amazon RDS snapshots. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Video Streams updates media playback API service quotas to enable up to 10x more simultaneous consumers
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams (KVS) updates the service quota model for its media playback APIs to throttle based on the number of fragments requested rather than the number of playback sessions. This gives developers the flexibility to enable up to 10x more simultaneous playback sessions for applications that use Kinesis Video Streams for live or […]
AWS – Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Cross-database queries
Amazon Redshift Cross-database queries provide ability to query across databases in a Redshift cluster. This feature is now generally available in all regions where Amazon Redshift RA3 node types are available. With Cross-database queries, you can seamlessly query data from any database in the cluster, regardless of which database you are connected to. Cross-database queries […]
AWS – Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Data Sharing
Amazon Redshift Data Sharing, a secure and easy way to share live data across Redshift clusters, is now generally available. Data Sharing enables instant, granular, and high-performance data access across Amazon Redshift clusters within an AWS account, without the need to copy or move data. Data Sharing provides live access to the data so that […]
Azure – Node.js 14 in Azure Functions is now generally available
Azure Functions support for the Node.js 14 runtime is now in general availability. Read More for the details.