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AWS – Amazon Pinpoint Announces Journey Pause and Resume
Today, Amazon Pinpoint announces the ability for customers to pause and resume Journeys — being able to temporarily halt the execution of message sends. Previously, customers needed to stop and recreate their Journey entirely if there was a situation such as: a conflicting campaign, a seasonal event, or an issue. Journeys are multi-step campaigns that […]

GCP – What you can learn in our Q2 2021 Google Cloud Security Talks on May 12th
Join us for our second Google Cloud Security Talks of 2021, a live online event on May 12th where we’ll help you navigate the latest developments in cloud security. We’ll share expert insights into how we’re working to be your most trusted cloud by covering the following topics: Sunil Potti and Rob Sadowski will kick […]

GCP – Customers handle up to 28% more concurrent chats with Agent Assist for Chat
Contact Center AI (CCAI) brings Google’s innovation in conversational AI to solve the most challenging customer service needs while lowering operational costs. More than a thousand customers have deployed CCAI and are steadily turning it on to power their production contact centers. Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve made CCAI even stronger with Agent […]

AWS – Amazon VPC Announces Pricing Change for VPC Peering
Starting May 1st 2021, all data transfer over a VPC Peering connection that stays within an Availability Zone (AZ) is now free. All data transfer over a VPC Peering connection that crosses Availability Zones will continue to be charged at the standard in-region data transfer rates. You can use the Availability Zone-ID to uniquely and consistently identify […]

GCP – Scheduling Cloud Bigtable Backups
Cloud Bigtable backups let you save a copy of a table’s schema and data, then restore from the backup to a new table at a later time. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create backups at regularly scheduled intervals (such as daily or weekly) using the Cloud Bigtable Scheduled Backups example. This example uses […]

Azure – Azure Data Share Preview API versions will no longer be supported starting August 1, 2021
Beginning August 1, 2021, you will no longer be able to access Azure Data Share preview API versions (2018-11-01-preview, 2020-06-01-preview) through REST API or SDK. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Translate increases the concurrent API limit for Batch Translation to 1000
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 concurrent API limits for batch translation jobs from 10 to 1000. Read More for the details.

Azure – New NPv1 virtual machines are now generally available
New Xilinx Alveo U250 FPGA NPv1 VMs are now generally available in West US 2, East US, West Europe, and Southeast Asia. Read More for the details.

GCP – Debugging your Proxyless gRPC service mesh
Proxyless gRPC applications in a service mesh now support many of the same features as deployments with a sidecar Envoy proxy, but in the past it has been difficult to get application-level insight into problems with specific nodes in the mesh. Today, we are happy to announce new tools, examples, and documentation to make it […]
Azure – Public preview: AKS support for Secrets Store Container Storage Interface
Access your secrets securely via the container’s file system. Read More for the details.