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GCP – Accelerating partner growth with Earnings Hub and new AI resources
Today, we’re announcing a new tool to help Google Cloud partners better track their growth and opportunities, and new resources to help them increase their AI expertise and respond to growing customer demand. Our partners are helping customers around the globe implement and generate business value with Google Cloud products. Generative AI in particular is […]

GCP – Secure the new endpoint: Check out Chrome Enterprise Premium’s latest innovations
The modern workplace revolves around the browser. It’s where employees access critical applications, handle sensitive data, and collaborate with colleagues. This makes the browser a critical point for enforcing security. Chrome Enterprise, the most trusted enterprise browser, recently introduced powerful new capabilities for Chrome Enterprise Premium designed to further enhance security, threat detection, and usability. […]

AWS – Amazon S3 adds new Region and bucket name filtering for the ListBuckets API
Amazon S3 now supports AWS Region and bucket name filters for the ListBuckets API. In addition, paginated ListBuckets requests now return your S3 general purpose buckets and their corresponding AWS Regions in the response, helping you simplify applications that need to determine bucket locations across multiple Regions. To get started, specify an AWS Region like […]

AWS – AWS Marketplace enables self-service creation of single AMI product listings for AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Marketplace now allows sellers to manage their Single Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) product availability in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions through a self-service experience. This makes the listing process easier and faster for AWS Marketplace sellers to sell software into the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Starting today, eligible AWS Marketplace sellers can self-serve creating […]

AWS – AWS Marketplace now supports offers in four new currencies and non-US bank accounts for disbursement
AWS Marketplace announces support for sellers and channel partners to create contract pricing private offers in four new currencies, and choose non-US bank accounts for disbursement. These features make it easier for sellers and buyers to do business globally by simplifying funds flow. Sellers can now create private offers with contract pricing in EUR, GBP, […]

AWS – Amazon Transcribe now supports streaming transcription in 30 additional languages
Today, we are excited to announce support for 30 additional languages for streaming audio transcriptions bringing the total number of supported languages to 54. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. New languages supported with this release include Afrikaans, Amharic, […]

AWS – AWS Beanstalk adds support for Python 3.12
AWS Beanstalk adds support for Python 3.12 on AL2023 Beanstalk environments. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that provides the ability to deploy and manage applications in AWS without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. Python 3.12 on AL2023 adds improved error messaging, Linux perf profiler support, improved speed of interpreter and usability […]

AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports configuring a minimum firing period for alerts
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports the ability to configure the minimum duration for which an alert remains active, after the condition that triggered the alert is no longer valid. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at […]

AWS – Amazon Bedrock Agents now provides Conversational Builder
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Conversational Builder for Amazon Bedrock Agents which provides a chat interface for you to use to build your Bedrock Agents. With the Conversational Builder, you can chat with an assistant that will guide you through building an agent and create your agent based off natural language instructions. The […]
AWS – Amazon Corretto October, 2024 Quarterly Updates
On October 15, 2024 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) and Feature Release (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 23.0.1, 21.0.5, 17.0.13, 11.0.25, 8u432 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Click on the Corretto home page to download Corretto 8, […]