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AWS – New classroom course: AWS Cloud Financial Management for Builders
We’re excited to announce the launch of AWS Cloud Financial Management for Builders, a new three-day, intermediate-level, instructor-led training course. Built by AWS experts, it’s designed for all builders and technologists interested in learning to design cost-optimized architectures, particularly developers, solutions architects, DevOps, and systems administrators. Read More for the details.

GCP – Rethinking application modernization for CIOs
The current global crisis has only reinforced what was already true for many IT organizations—that they must increase agility and accelerate innovation to better serve customers and prevent future disruptions. But for many, maintenance of legacy IT systems has inhibited change and consumed disproportionate amounts of budget. In fact, a recent McKinsey study of enterprises […]

AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in the Europe (Milan) and Africa (Cape Town) AWS Regions
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in the Europe (Milan) and Africa (Cape Town) AWS Regions. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is the easiest way to load streaming data into data stores and analytics tools. You can capture, transform, and load streaming data into Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, and Splunk, enabling near […]

GCP – Safety first: Announcing 11 new G Suite security features
With so many people working remotely, it’s more important than ever that the tools we use to stay in touch and productive are safe and secure. That’s why today we’re announcing new updates that provide even stronger security in Gmail, Meet, and Chat. We’re also unveiling new ways to help IT admins easily manage and […]

AWS – Amazon AppFlow now supports new Salesforce integrations
Amazon AppFlow is a fully managed integration service that enables customers to securely transfer data between AWS services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications in just a few clicks. Amazon AppFlow now supports automatic import of newly created Salesforce fields into Amazon S3 without requiring the user to update their flow configurations. Also, Amazon AppFlow now allows […]

AWS – Amazon SQS Now Supports New Console Experience
Amazon SQS now supports a new console which simplifies development and production workflows by creating a new user experience. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SQS now provides results for the “List Queues” and “List Dead Letter Source Queues” requests in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon SQS makes it easier to manage lists of queues by allowing callers to iterate through the results of ListQueues and ListDeadLetterSourceQueues APIs using a multi-page format. You can check the status of your request and receive the results in multiple pages by setting the MaxResults parameter to a value between 1 and 1000. You […]

AWS – AWS Global Accelerator launches One-Click Acceleration for Application Load Balancers
Today, AWS Global Accelerator announces the ability to easily obtain a fixed entry point for an Application Load Balancer and improve the performance for your user traffic by as much as 60%, with just a single click in the AWS Management Console. When you create a load balancer in the console, you can select a […]

AWS – Announcing Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations
Starting today, you can now monitor Capacity Reservations usage metrics via Amazon CloudWatch metrics. With these new metrics, you can efficiently monitor your Capacity Reservations and identify unused capacity by setting CloudWatch alarms to notify you when usage thresholds are met. You no longer need to manually monitor your Capacity Reservation usage. Read More […]
AWS – Amazon Connect adds call recording APIs
Amazon Connect now provides four new APIs that enable you to start, stop, pause, and resume call recording. Using the new APIs, you can control recording with a button from your custom agent user interface, build integrations to set recording behavior based on telephony attributes (e.g., area code), or pause and resume recording based on […]