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AWS – Amazon Connect reduces 26 rates in Latin America
Amazon Connect is announcing 26 telephony rate reductions for customers in Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador and Colombia from the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now supports SAP deployments with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 and RHEL 8.2
AWS Launch Wizard now allows customers to deploy SAP workloads using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 and RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.2. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate now allows you to configure the size of ephemeral storage for your Tasks
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on AWS Fargate now lets you configure the size of ephemeral storage for your Tasks up to a maximum of 200GiB. All ephemeral storage on AWS Fargate continues to be encrypted by default with service-managed keys. Read More for the details.

AWS – EC2 Image Builder supports Auto Scaling launch template
Now on EC2 Image Builder, you can create a new version of your EC2 Auto Scaling launch template that references your latest Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). Using Image Builder pipeline, you can easily create these new launch template versions with the latest AMI to be used across all your AWS regions. Read More for the […]

AWS – AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager, a new capability in AWS Systems Manager that helps you streamline and scale your remote server management process is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS GovCloud (US) is designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud for customers with stringent U.S. federal, state, or local […]

AWS – Announcing support for linear interpolation in AWS IoT SiteWise
AWS IoT SiteWise now supports linear interpolation, enabling customers to estimate and retrieve the values of missing data points in their time series data. Read More for the details.

GCP – EdTechs transform education with AI and Analytics
Over the last year, COVID-19 presented unforeseen challenges for practically every type of business and organization—including schools, colleges, and universities. For educational institutions, the pandemic was an unapologetic agent of acceleration, shifting one billion learners from in-person to online learning within two months. The rapid transition to online learning exposed many schools’ lack of readiness […]

GCP – 6 database trends to watch
In a data-driven, global, always-on world, databases are the engines that let businesses innovate and transform. As databases get more sophisticated and more organizations look for managed database services to handle infrastructure needs, there are a few key trends we’re seeing. Here’s what to watch. We’re looking forward to what’s next in databases. You can’t […]

AWS – Amazon Chime SDK now supports video prioritization policies
The Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript now provides a way for builders to prioritize video streams according to their online meeting user case. If there is insufficient bandwidth to download all available video streams, the Amazon Chime SDK uses the video prioritization policy to maximize the fidelity and quality of high-priority video streams. Read More […]
AWS – AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) v2 and Go CDK is now available for Developer Preview
The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) v2 is now available for Developer Preview, and offers two new capabilities for CDK users. The first is all CDK versions now support Go, expanding the number of programming languages developers can use to define infrastructure-as-code, and provision through AWS CloudFormation. The second is that all stable constructs […]