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AWS – Amazon Connect Chat now supports Apple Business Chat (Preview)
With the Amazon Connect Chat integration for Apple Business Chat, you can now provide convenient and familiar customer service directly through the Apple Messages app. Anytime an iPhone user clicks to call your registered phone number, Apple provides the option to chat, reducing contact center costs and enabling customers to respond at their own pace. […]
GCP – A new Terraform module for serverless load balancing
Today we are announcing a new Terraform module for provisioning load balancers optimized for serverless applications. With this Terraform module, you can complete your load balancing task with a single module, instead of configuring many underlying network resources yourself in Terraform. In an earlier article, we showed you how to build a Cloud HTTPS Load […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights (General Availability)
Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights enables you to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize the performance of AWS Lambda functions. You have access to automated dashboards summarizing the performance and health of your Lambda functions that provide visibility into issues such as memory leaks or performance changes caused by new function versions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Serverless Batch Scheduling with AWS Batch and AWS Fargate
Today AWS Batch introduced the ability for customers to specify AWS Fargate as a compute resource for their AWS Batch jobs. With AWS Batch support for AWS Fargate, customers now have a way to run jobs on serverless compute resources, fully managed from job submission to completion. Now, you only need to submit your analytics, […]
AWS – AWS Compute Optimizer now supports Amazon EBS volume recommendations
AWS Compute Optimizer now supports IOPS and throughput-based EBS volume recommendations. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 with PostgreSQL compatibility now available in eight additional regions
Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 with PostgreSQL compatibility is now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney) Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), and US West (N. California) regions. Read More for the details.
GCP – Transforming Benefits Delivery to Utah Residents using the Cloud
Roughly one of every ten individuals in Utah received benefits from or engaged with a social service program delivered by their state government in recent years. As a result, social services programs comprise the largest share of Utah’s budget, this year amounting to more than $8 billion. This funding covers programs across state government spanning […]
GCP – Image archive, analysis, and report generation with Google APIs
File backup isn’t the most exciting topic, while analyzing images with AI/ML is more interesting—so combining them probably isn’t a workflow you think about often. However, by augmenting the former with the latter, you can build a more useful solution than without. Google provides a diverse array of developer tools you can use to realize […]
GCP – Google Maps Platform JavaScript API and TypeScript
In July, we started rolling out TypeScript samples in the Maps JavaScript API documentation to better support modern web developers. According to a 2019 JavaScript developer survey, nearly 60% have used TypeScript and will use it again, while over 20% are interested in learning it. TypeScript is growing in popularity and we hope to make […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon RDS Service Delivery Partners
Today we are excited to announce the relaunch of the Amazon RDS Service Delivery Program, part of the AWS Service Delivery Program, to help customers find AWS Partners with specific database engine expertise to set up, operate, and scale relational databases in the cloud. Read More for the details.