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AWS – Amazon Connect now supports push notifications for mobile chat
Amazon Connect now supports push notifications for mobile chat on iOS and Android devices, improving the customer experience and enabling faster issue resolution. Amazon Connect makes it easy to offer mobile chat experiences using the Amazon Connect Chat SDKs or a webview solution using the communications widget. Now, with built-in push notifications enabled for mobile […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) region
Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region, enabling customers to deploy essential network protections for all their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). AWS Network Firewall is a managed firewall service that is easy to deploy. The service automatically scales with network traffic volume to provide high-availability protections without […]
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports User-Defined Types in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that offers 99.999% availability. Today, Amazon Keyspaces added support for Cassandra’s User Defined Types (UDTs) in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. With support for UDTs, you can continue using any custom data types […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 R8g instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big […]
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) announces frozen collections in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that offers 99.999% availability. Today, Amazon Keyspaces added support for frozen collections in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. With support for frozen collections, the primary keys in your tables can contain collections, allowing you […]
AWS – Amazon Lex launches new multilingual speech recognition models
We are excited to announce the general availability of new multilingual streaming speech recognition models (ASR-2.0) in Amazon Lex. These models enhance recognition accuracy through two specialized groupings: one European-based model supporting Portuguese, Catalan, French, Italian, German, and Spanish, and another Asia Pacific-based model supporting Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. These Amazon Lex multilingual streaming models […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M8g instances now available in AWS Europe (Spain)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8g instances are available in AWS Europe (Spain) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 M8g instances are built for general-purpose workloads, such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data […]
GCP – Unwrap 12 days of training to learn generative AI this December
Tis the season for learning new skills! Get ready for 12 Days of Learning, a festive digital advent calendar packed with courses, hands-on labs, videos, and community opportunities—all designed to boost your generative AI expertise. Discover a new learning resource on Google Cloud’s social channels every day for twelve days this December. Before you start: […]
AWS – Amazon MQ now supports AWS PrivateLink
Amazon MQ now supports AWS PrivateLink (interface VPC endpoint) to connect directly to the Amazon MQ API in your virtual private cloud (VPC) instead of connecting over the internet. When you use AWS PrivateLink, communication between your VPC and Amazon MQ API is conducted entirely within the AWS network, providing an optimized secure pathway for […]
AWS – Amazon Simple Email Services (SES) announces Deterministic Easy DKIM
Amazon Simple Email Services (SES) announces the availability of Deterministic Easy DKIM (DEED), a new form of global identity which simplifies the use of DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) management for SES first-party sender customers and independent solution vendors (ISVs). DEED expands the existing Easy DKIM solution from SES and enables it to work across all […]