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AWS – Amazon Connect decreases outbound telephony rates for the second time this year in Europe
For the second time in 2020, Amazon Connect is announcing outbound telephony cost decreases across six countries in Europe. Starting September 1st, Amazon Connect, an easy to use contact center service, decreased the following outbound telephony rates in the EU Central (Frankfurt) and EU West (London) regions for the following six countries: Read More for […]
AWS – Amazon Transcribe adds support for AMR, Ogg and WebM file formats
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Today, we are excited to announce native support for media files in AMR, AMR-WB, Ogg and WebM format by Amazon Transcribe. Previously, you were required to convert these file formats into supported formats […]
AWS – Amazon ECS is now available in the Los Angeles AWS Local Zones
You can now run Amazon Elastic Container Service tasks in the two AWS Local Zones in Los Angeles. With Amazon ECS/EC2 on Local Zones, you can run latency-sensitive applications closer to end-users in Los Angeles. Once you have opted in for using AWS Local Zones, you can create a VPC and subnet in the local […]
AWS – New courses for AWS Partners: governance, data analytics, migration, and IoT
AWS Training and Certification has launched four new courses for our AWS Partner community! First, AWS Solutions Training for Partners: Security Governance at Scale (Technical) teaches solutions architects and technical teams about cloud security best practices for establishing continuous governance and management at scale. Partners will be able to help their customers scale with agility […]
AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers T3 Instances
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers the latest T3 (general-purpose) instances which offer superior performance and larger storage capacity compared to the previous generations. The T3 instances also support our recently launched features like encryption at rest and in-flight, role based access control, HTTP compression, custom dictionary, SQL, alerting, anomaly detection, and cross-cluster search. Read More […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora Increases Maximum Storage Size to 128TB
You can now create Amazon Aurora database clusters with up to 128TB of storage. The new storage limit is available for both the MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible editions of Amazon Aurora. Previously, Aurora database instances supported 64TB of storage. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Supports pglogical Extension
Starting today, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL supports the pglogical extension. pglogical is an open source PostgreSQL extension that helps customers replicate data between independent Aurora PostgreSQL databases while maintaining consistent read-write access and a mix of private and common data in each database. Amazon Aurora pglogical uses logical replication to copy data changes between independent Aurora […]
GCP – All together now: Fleet-wide monitoring for your Compute Engine VMs
Cloud Monitoring has always provided comprehensive visibility and management into individual Compute Engine virtual machines (VMs). But many Google Cloud customers have hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of VMs that they need to manage. Cloud Monitoring now gives you zero-config, out-of-the-box visibility into your entire Compute Engine VM fleet, with quick access to advanced […]
GCP – Anthos in depth: Easy load balancing for your on-prem workloads
For organizations that need to run their workloads on-prem, Anthos is a real game changer. As a hybrid multi-cloud platform that’s managed by Google Cloud, Anthos includes all the innovations that we’ve developed for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) over the years, but running in the customer’s data center. And as such, Anthos can integrate with […]
GCP – Migrate your custom ML models to Google Cloud in 3 steps
Building end-to-end pipelines is becoming more important as many businesses realize that having a machine learning model is only one small step towards getting their ML-driven application into production. Google Cloud offers a tool for training and deploying models at scale, Cloud AI Platform, which integrates with multiple orchestration tools like TensorFlow Extended and KubeFlow […]