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AWS – Protect Your AWS Compute Optimizer Recommendation Data with customer master keys (CMKs) Stored in AWS Key Management Service
Starting today, customers can choose to further protect their recommendation data generated by AWS Compute Optimizer by exporting to S3 buckets encrypted with AWS Key Management Service (KMS) Customer Master Keys (CMKs). Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Connect launches user access controls for contact search using Agent Hierarchy to easily protect sensitive data and maintain compliance
You can now manage access to Contact Trace Records (CTRs), Call Recordings, and Chat Transcripts in the Contact Search page of your Amazon Connect instance using agent hierarchies. Agent hierarchy is an Amazon Connect feature that allows administrators to group users together. Now they can use these groups to control access to results in the […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 G4dn Bare Metal Instances with NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs, now available in 15 additional regions
Amazon EC2 has the cloud’s broadest and most capable portfolio of hardware-accelerated instances featuring GPUs, FPGAs, and our own custom ML inference chip, AWS Inferentia. G4dn instances offer the best price/performance for GPU based ML inference, training less-complex ML models, graphics applications others that need access to NVIDIA libraries such as CUDA, CuDNN and NVENC. […]

AWS – AWS Client VPN is now available in the South America (Sao Paulo) Region
AWS Client VPN is now available in the South America (Sao Paulo) Region. This increases global coverage of AWS Client VPN, which offers region support in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Stockholm), North America (N. Virginia, Northern California, Ohio, Oregon). With this launch, AWS Client VPN is […]

AWS – AWS Database Migration Service Now Supports Transaction Commit Date Partitioning in CDC Mode When Using Amazon S3 as a Target
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) helps you migrate databases to AWS quickly and securely. With this launch, AWS DMS now supports Amazon S3 folder partitions based on transaction commit dates when using Amazon S3 as a target. Using date-based folder partitioning, you can write data from a single source table to a time-hierarchy folder […]

Azure – New Azure Spot Virtual Machines features
You can now access the price history of Spot Virtual Machines and the eviction rate for the past 28 trailing days in the Azure portal. Read More for the details.

GCP – Drive conversions with Google Maps Platform retail solutions
The 2020 holiday season presents a unique opportunity for retailers to showcase their flexibility in adapting to shifting consumer behavior. COVID-19 has transformed how consumers shop and how retailers sell. Favoring convenience, safety, and value, consumers are more open to switching brands. Studies show that 35% of those who experienced problems in the shopping journey […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Price Reductions – Up to 18% for ml.P3 and ml.P2 instances
Today we are announcing a price reduction of up to 18% on all ml.p3 and ml.p2 instances in Amazon SageMaker, making them an even more cost-effective solution to meet your machine learning needs. The new price reductions will be effective Oct 1st 2020 and will apply to ml.p3 and ml.p2 instances for SageMaker Studio Notebooks, […]

AWS – AWS OpsWorks for Configuration Management now supports new version of Chef Automate
AWS OpsWorks for Configuration Management now supports the new version of Chef Automate for its fully managed service. Customers benefit from receiving the update automatically during the weekly system maintenance window scheduled individually by each customer. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Red Hat OpenShift – Pricing and service updates
Lower prices, more flexible purchase options, and an improved SLA. Read More for the details.