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AWS – Amazon WorkDocs refreshes the Android mobile app UI to provide a new, simplified user experience
Starting today, users can experience a new, optimized user interface when they access Amazon WorkDocs from the WorkDocs Android mobile application. This new user interface enhances accessibility, supports easier collaboration, and improves file and folder discoverability. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Lightsail now offers CDN distributions to accelerate content delivery
Amazon Lightsail now provides you with the ability to create and manage content delivery network (CDN) distributions, making it quick and easy to accelerate the delivery of your website’s content to your global audience. This native service, called Lightsail CDN, is backed by Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Web Services’ CDN platform that uses a global network […]

AWS – Amazon Elastic File System increases per-client throughput by 100%
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) now supports up to 500 MB/s of per-client throughput, a 100% increase from the previous limit of 250 MB/s. Total throughput for an EFS file system remains at 10+ GB/s across all NFS clients. Read More for the details.

AWS – Contact Lens for Amazon Connect is now generally available
Contact Lens for Amazon Connect is a set of machine learning-based analytics capabilities for Amazon Connect. With Contact Lens, contact centers now have the ability to easily access call transcripts, understand customer sentiment and conversation characteristics (such as non-talk time and interruptions), identify customer issues/call drivers, and monitor compliance with company guidelines. Getting started with […]

Azure – New memory optimized and compute optimized hardware options in Azure SQL Database
New memory optimized and compute optimized hardware options are now generally available in Azure SQL Database. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Services announces support for Elasticsearch versions 7.7
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports open source Elasticsearch 7.7 and its corresponding version of Kibana. This minor release includes bug fixes and enhancements. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL and MariaDB supports additional sizes for db.m5 and db.r5 instance classes
Starting today, Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon RDS for MariaDB support 8xlarge and 16xlarge sizes for db.m5 and db.r5 instance classes. With support for these new instance sizes, customers who are currently using m4.10xlarge, m4.16xlarge, r4.8xlarge, or r4.16xlarge now have an easy upgrade path to the latest generation of instances. Read More for the […]

GCP – How G Suite helps businesses evolve to more flexible and distributed work models
Since joining Google a few months ago to lead G Suite marketing, I’ve been humbled by the many inspiring stories of businesses reacting swiftly to the global pandemic. Our customers have enabled their teams to re-imagine not only how they communicate and collaborate with each other remotely, but also how they continue to serve their […]

GCP – Giving you better cost analytics capabilities—and a simpler invoice
Invoices are an important part of your ability to record and track spending and attribute it back to purchase orders and department budgets. They’re also often required for enterprises by law for financial record keeping and audits. However, a typical invoice doesn’t offer the level of detail that a financial operations (FinOps) team needs to […]
GCP – Why you should share your Apps Script projects as G Suite Add-ons
Apps Script is a great way to quickly create automations and utilities to speed up processes or eliminate repetitive tasks within G Suite. Once you’ve developed such a tool, you’ll probably want to share it with colleagues across your organization. Sharing the Sheet or Doc that’s bound to your script project is simple and intuitive, […]