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AWS – Announcing the express testing capability in Amazon Lex
Amazon Lex now provides the express testing capability on the AWS Management Console to expedite the chatbot building process. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With the express testing capability, you can start testing basic interaction elements such as the conversation flow, prompts, responses, and […]
AWS – Amazon MSK is now available in Europe (Milan)
You can now connect your Apache Kafka applications to Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) in the Europe (Milan) AWS Region. Amazon MSK clusters in Milan can be created using kafka.t3.small brokers or brokers from the kafka.m5 family. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS announces General Availability of Amazon GameLift feature update
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of an Amazon GameLift FleetIQ update that enables game developers to add low-cost, low-latency GameLift servers to their existing on-premises or cloud-based server capacities. GameLift is an AWS managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling dedicated servers for multiplayer games, and it is trusted by […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports July 2020 Oracle Patch Set Updates (PSU) and Release Updates (RU)
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the July 2020 Patch Set Updates (PSU) for Oracle Database 11.2 and 12.1, and July 2020 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2, 18c and 19c. Read More for the details.
AWS – Pause and Resume Workloads on M5a and R5a Instances with Amazon EC2 Hibernation
Amazon EC2 can now hibernate EBS-backed Amazon EC2 M5a and R5a instances. You can now hibernate your newly launched instances running on M5a and R5a instance types. Hibernation provides you the convenience of pausing your workloads and resuming them from the saved state later. Hibernation is just like closing and opening your laptop lid, your […]
Azure – Stream Analytics now can be run on Azure Stack Hub
Azure Stream Analytics is now available on Azure Stack Hub via IoT Edge Runtime. Read More for the details.
GCP – An application modernization bonanza — What happened at Next OnAir
Week seven of Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir was all about application modernization—of your existing workloads, and the ones you will build tomorrow. We kicked things off with not one, not two, but three keynotes: the first, by Eyal Manor, GM & VP, Engineering; Pali Bhat, VP, Product & Design and Chen Goldberg, Engineering Director, […]
Azure – Upcoming billing changes to Azure Bastion
Azure Bastion to start billing in Azure US Gov Zone 1. Read More for the details.
GCP – Better together: orchestrating your Data Fusion pipelines with Cloud Composer
The data analytics world relies on ETL and ELT pipelines to derive meaningful insights from data. Data engineers and ETL developers are often required to build dozens of interdependent pipelines as part of their data platform, but orchestrating, managing, and monitoring all these pipelines can be quite a challenge. That’s why we’re pleased to announce […]
AWS – Introducing Second Local Zone in Los Angeles, CA
Today we are announcing the launch of a second Local Zone in Los Angeles (LA), California. You can now design your applications to run in both Local Zones in LA to achieve high availability and even greater fault-tolerance. Both Local Zones in LA are interconnected with high-bandwidth, low-latency networking, over fully redundant, dedicated metro fiber […]