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AWS – AWS Marketplace announces enhanced pricing dimension capabilities for sellers
Today, AWS Marketplace announces enhanced pricing dimension capabilities, increasing limits and improving flexibility for sellers managing their product pricing. These enhancements increase the maximum pricing dimensions from 24 to 200, enable immediate use of new SaaS dimensions, and remove the 90-day price update restriction for dimensions without active subscriptions. These enhancements address key product pricing […]
AWS – Automatic quota management is now generally available for AWS Service Quotas
Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new capability of AWS Service Quotas called automatic quota management. AWS Service Quotas helps you view and manage your quotas from a central location. This new feature monitors quota usage, and notifies customers before they run out of their allocated quotas supported on AWS Service Quotas. This […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Serverless with lower base capacity available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Canada (Central) Regions
Amazon Redshift now allows you to get started with Amazon Redshift Serverless with a lower data warehouse base capacity configuration of 8 Redshift Processing Units (RPUs) in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Canada (Central) regions. Each RPU provides 16 GB of memory. Amazon Redshift Serverless measures data warehouse capacity in RPUs, and you pay only […]
AWS – Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.34
Kubernetes version 1.34 introduced several new features and bug fixes, and AWS is excited to announce that you can now use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Amazon EKS Distro to run Kubernetes version 1.34. Starting today, you can create new EKS clusters using version 1.34 and upgrade existing clusters to version 1.34 using the EKS console, the eksctl […]
AWS – AWS Incident Detection and Response is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Incident Detection and Response is now available in both AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. AWS Incident Detection and Response offers eligible AWS Enterprise Support customers proactive incident engagement to reduce the potential for failure and accelerate recovery of critical workloads from disruption. Incident Detection and Response facilitates your collaboration with AWS […]
GCP – 11 ways to reduce your Google Cloud compute costs today
As the saying goes, “a penny saved is a penny earned,” and this couldn’t be more true when it comes to cloud infrastructure. In today’s competitive business landscape, you need to maintain the performance to meet your business needs. Luckily, Google Cloud’s Compute Engine and block storage services offer numerous opportunities to reduce costs without […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches new case APIs to link related cases, add custom related items, and search across them
Amazon Connect now allows you to programmatically enrich case data by linking related cases, attaching custom related items, and searching across them, so agents have the full context they need to resolve issues faster. For example, an airline can link all customer cases tied to a single flight cancellation to coordinate rebookings and send proactive […]
GCP – More choice, more control: self-deploy proprietary models in your VPC with Vertex AI
Building the best AI applications requires both the freedom to choose the most powerful, specialized model for the task at hand, and a platform that can handle them all. This flexibility is core to the Vertex AI platform, and today, we’re taking a significant step forward in our commitment to giving you unparalleled choice and […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now enables you to customize service level calculations
Amazon Connect now enables you to customize service level calculations to your specific needs. Supervisors and managers can define time thresholds for when a contact is considered to meet service level standards and select which contact outcomes to include in the calculation. For example, managers can choose to count callback contacts, exclude contacts transferred out […]
AWS – New Compute Optimized Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances
AWS is announcing the general availability of new compute optimized Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. These C8i and C8i-flex instances offer up to 15% better […]
