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AWS – Amazon VPC IPAM now supports BYOIP for IPs registered with any Internet Registry
Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) IP Address Manager (IPAM) supports Bring-Your-Own-IP (BYOIP) for IP addresses registered with any Internet Registry. Internet registries manage the allocation and registration of IP addresses within specific geographical regions. BYOIP allows you to bring IP addresses allocated to you by these registries, to AWS, and use them for […]
AWS – Amazon DocumentDB now supports change streams on reader instances
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports change streams on reader instances. With change stream on reader instances, customers can now isolate change stream workloads to specific reader instances, which reduces the load on cluster’s writer instance. Change stream tokens can be shared across writer and reader instances, enabling customers to resume change streams from […]
AWS – AWS KMS increases default service quotas for cryptographic operations
AWS KMS has doubled default service quotas for cryptographic operations in all AWS Regions, including raising the symmetric cryptographic operation request rate from 50,000 to 100,000 in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland). The request rate for cryptographic operations involving RSA and ECC KMS keys has also been increased from 500 […]
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports M6i, R6i, M6g, R6g, and T4g database instances in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M6i, R6i, M6g, R6g, and T4g database instances in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. With this expansion, customers of RDS for open source engines in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region have more than double the number of available instance types to choose from. M6i […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides generative AI-powered summaries within seconds after a contact ends
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides generative AI-powered post-contact summaries within seconds after a contact ends, versus minutes previously, helping you get faster insights when reviewing contacts, save time on after-contact work, and more quickly identifying opportunities to improve contact quality and agent performance. These faster summaries are available via API and Kinesis data streams, […]
AWS – Amazon DocumentDB announces improvements to document compression
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports the ability to enable compression on existing collections, set a compression threshold for each collection, and enable compression on all new collections using a cluster-wide setting. Compressed documents in Amazon DocumentDB can be up to 7 times smaller than uncompressed documents, leading to lower storage costs, I/O costs, […]
GCP – Introducing Spanner dual-region configurations that help maintain high availability and data residency
Spanner is Google’s fully managed, globally distributed database with high throughput and virtually unlimited scale. Spanner processes over 4 billion queries per second at peak. With features such as automatic sharding, zero downtime, and strong consistency, Spanner powers demanding, global workloads — not only across customers in financial services, gaming, retail, and other industries but […]
GCP – Lowe’s innovation: How Vertex AI Vector Search helps create interactive shopping experiences
At Lowe’s, we are always striving to make the shopping experience more enjoyable and convenient for our customers. A common challenge we’ve identified is that many shoppers visit our ecommerce site or mobile application without a clear idea of what they want but believe that they will recognize the right product when they see it. […]
GCP – LiveX AI reduces customer support costs by up to 85% with AI agents trained and served on GKE and NVIDIA AI
Providing a satisfying customer experience is a critical competitive advantage for consumer companies, but delivering it comes with multiple challenges. Despite attracting visitors to a website, it can be a struggle to convert them into customers if the site lacks that personal touch. Call centers are costly to operate, and when call volume is high, […]
GCP – Datastream’s SQL Server source is generally available
Have you ever wished it were easier to replicate your SQL Server databases? To address this challenge, today, we are announcing the general availability (GA) of Datastream’s SQL Server source. This means you can now easily and reliably replicate data from your SQL Server databases to BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and other Google Cloud destinations, unlocking […]