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AWS – Amazon Cognito User Pools enables easy quota management and usage tracking
Amazon Cognito User Pools now enables you to manage quotas for commonly used operation categories, such as user creation and user authentication, as well as view quotas and usage levels in the AWS Service Quotas dashboard or in CloudWatch metrics. This update makes it simple view your quota usage of and request rate increases for […]
GCP – Workspace powers business as usual for Optiva during COVID-19
Established companies in any industry, including telecommunications, often take a cautious approach when it comes to adopting new technology. This is true of any technology and especially of tools used across entire organizations and at all levels—like collaboration and communication tools. I joined Optiva Inc. as its Chief Marketing Officer in August 2018, and right […]
GCP – Using remote and event-triggered AI Platform Pipelines
A machine learning workflow can involve many steps with dependencies on each other, from data preparation and analysis, to training, to evaluation, to deployment, and more. It’s hard to compose and track these processes in an ad-hoc manner—for example, in a set of notebooks or scripts—and things like auditing and reproducibility become increasingly problematic. Cloud […]
GCP – These inspiring small and medium businesses are helping the world navigate COVID-19 together
No matter where you are in the world, we’ve all had to adapt our routines to navigate the “new normal” brought on by COVID-19. We’ve been inspired by the ways businesses and organizations have responded, from accelerating medical research using the latest AI technology to enabling remote healthcare to protect doctors and their patients. As […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra achieves HIPAA eligibility
Amazon Kendra, a highly accurate intelligent search service powered by machine learning is now a U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) eligible service. Customers can now use Amazon Kendra to manage healthcare and life science workloads that contain protected health information (PHI). Read More for the details.
AWS – Application Load Balancers enables gRPC workloads with end to end HTTP/2 support
Application Load Balancer (ALB) now supports gRPC protocol. With this release, you can use ALB to route and load balance your gRPC traffic between microservices or between gRPC enabled clients and services. This will allow customers to seamlessly introduce gRPC traffic management in their architectures without changing any of the underlying infrastructure on their clients […]
AWS – Amazon API Gateway now supports disabling the default REST API endpoint
Amazon API Gateway now supports disabling the default, auto-generated REST API endpoint. The default REST API endpoint in API Gateway looks like https://{restapi_id}.execute-api.{region}.amazonaws.com. This feature is intended for customers who use custom domain names for REST APIs and want to ensure that all traffic to their API only goes through the custom domain name and […]
AWS – Amazon SES now offers list and subscription management capabilities
Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) now enables customers to manage their own contact lists and offers enhanced subscription management capabilities. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Service Catalog now provides One-Page Provisioning with a new console experience
AWS Service Catalog now provides simplified provisioning of cloud resources with a one-page launch process and a new console experience. With this new feature, end-users can more easily and quickly provision products with fewer errors. Read More for the details.
AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Virtusa Desktop-as-a-Service (vDaaS)
Virtusa Desktop-as-a-Service (vDaaS) is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Virtusa, an AWS Digital Workplace Competency Partner. vDaaS provides employees access to their digital workspace and secure data anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers a full life […]