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AWS – Price change notice for customers using Amazon Pinpoint to send SMS messages to India
Starting September 21, 2020, the price of sending SMS messages to India will be updated from $0.00223 to $0.00303 per message. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS CloudFormation StackSets is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East), EU (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Regions
AWS CloudFormation has expanded the availability of StackSets to AWS GovCloud (US-East), EU (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong). StackSets allows you to centrally manage deployments of resources to multiple accounts and regions in a single operation enabling you to easily deploy a baseline level of functionality to your accounts before they are actively used. […]
AWS – AWS CloudTrail now provides relevant user statistics to act on anomalies detected by CloudTrail Insights
CloudTrail Insights now helps you correlate user identities, user agents, and error codes associated with unusual levels of API activity. Now, you can identify the IAM users and roles with the highest levels of API activity during both periods of anomalous activity, and normal activity. This capability helps you analyze and act on anomalies without […]
AWS – New digital training course for Amazon Managed Blockchain
We are pleased to announce the first blockchain course from AWS Training and Certification. This new course, Introduction to Blockchain, is a free, on-demand, 60-minute digital course for both technical and non-technical learners. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS announces General Availability of new Provisioned IOPS Volume (io2) for Amazon EBS
New Elastic Block Store (EBS) Provisioned IOPS volume, io2, features higher durability of 99.999%, and supports provisioning 500 IOPS for every provisioned GB. This means that with io2, customers get 100x better volume durability and a 10x higher IOPS to storage ratio – all at the same price as io1. io2 is ideal for performance […]
GCP – Google Cloud Application Modernization Program: Get to the future faster
It’s been almost 10 years since Marc Andreessen coined the phrase ‘software is eating the world.’ In that time, organizations have come to realize the fundamental truth of this idea, and have started their own journeys into becoming software companies. As large enterprises embrace the journey, they are looking for advice and a proven set […]
GCP – Accelerate your application development and delivery
Delivering software quickly, reliably, and safely is at the heart of every digital transformation and application modernization journey. After all, an increase in speed generates powerful business outcomes. As showcased by research from DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA),software speed, stability, and availability contribute directly to organizational performance (including profitability, productivity, and customer satisfaction). Today, we […]
GCP – Anthos rising—now easier to use, for more workloads
Today more than ever, customers ask for help addressing two critical business needs: reimagining their application portfolios and driving cost savings. Earlier today, we announced Google Cloud App Modernization Program, or Google CAMP. We built this program to help you innovate faster, so you can reach your customers with world-class, secure, reliable applications, all while […]
GCP – From the ballpark to the cloud: How MLB is using Anthos
Whether it’s calculating batting averages or hot dog sales, data is at the heart of baseball. For Major League Baseball (MLB), the governing body of the sport known as America’s National Pastime, processing, analyzing, and ultimately making decisions based on that data is key to running a successful organization, and they’ve increasingly turned to Google […]
AWS – AWS Transfer Family adds support for email addresses as usernames
AWS Transfer Family now supports using email addresses as usernames for your file transfer clients by adding support for at symbol (@) and period (dot) in usernames. In addition, the service now supports username length of up to 100 characters from the previously supported limit of 32 characters. Read More for the details.