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GCP – A founder’s guide to Google for Startups programs
As a startup founder, you’re juggling a million things – building your team, securing funding, and perfecting your product. Google for Startups is here to help you navigate the chaos and accelerate your growth. We offer a variety of high-touch programs tailored to different stages and needs, including: Google for Startups Accelerators: Intensive 10-week programs […]
GCP – Get up to 100x query performance improvement with BigQuery history-based optimizations
When looking for insights, users leave no stone unturned, peppering the data warehouse with a variety of queries to find the answers to their questions. Some of those queries consume a lot of computational resources — and many of those queries closely resemble one another. To further speed up query execution, we developed BigQuery history-based […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Multi-AZ is generally available for RA3 clusters in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Redshift is announcing the general availability of Multi-AZ deployments for RA3 clusters in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Redshift Multi-AZ deployments support running your data warehouse in multiple AWS Availability Zones (AZ) simultaneously and continue operating in unforeseen failure scenarios. A Multi-AZ deployment raises the Redshift Service Level Agreement (SLA) to 99.99% and delivers […]
AWS – Bring your conversations to WhatsApp with AWS End User Messaging Social
AWS announces End User Messaging Social, enabling developers to message their end users on WhatsApp, the world’s most popular messaging app with over 2.7 billion users. With this release, developers can create rich messaging experiences on WhatsApp with multimedia content and interactive features. They can now use WhatsApp alongside End User Messaging SMS and Push […]
AWS – Amazon CloudFront launches support for JA4 fingerprinting
Amazon CloudFront now supports JA4 fingerprinting of incoming requests, enabling customers to allow known clients or block requests from malicious clients. The JA4 fingerprint is passed via the Cloudfront-viewer-ja4-fingerprint header. You can inspect the JA4 fingerprints using custom logic on your application web servers or using CloudFront Functions or Lambda@Edge. A JA4 TLS client fingerprint […]
AWS – Cross-zone enabled Network Load Balancer now supports zonal shift and zonal autoshift
AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) now supports Amazon Application Recovery Controller’s zonal shift and zonal autoshift features on load balancers that are enabled across zones. Zonal shift allows you to quickly shift traffic away from an impaired Availability Zone (AZ) and recover from events such as bad application deployment and gray failures. Zonal autoshift safely […]
AWS – AWS Resource Explorer introduces new API to list resource inventory
AWS Resource Explorer customers can now list all AWS resources indexed by Resource Explorer across Services, AWS Regions, and AWS accounts. Customers use Resource Explorer to search for supported AWS resources using keywords and search operators to return up to 1,000 relevancy-ranked results. Starting today, customers can use the same familiar search operators to list […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens dashboards now support additional customization capabilities
Amazon Connect Contact Lens dashboards now include the ability to color code metric performance, customize service level thresholds, and switch metrics within widgets. With these dashboards, you can view and compare real-time and historical aggregated performance, trends, and insights using custom-defined time periods (e.g., week over week), summary charts, time-series chart, etc. You can further […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaPackage now available in Middle East (UAE) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) regions
AWS Elemental MediaPackage is now available in the Middle East (UAE) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) regions, enabling users to configure and operate MediaPackage using the console or API endpoints in these regions. AWS Elemental MediaPackage is a video origination and just-in-time packaging service that allows video distributors to securely and reliably deliver live streaming or […]
AWS – AWS Backup is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia)
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. AWS Backup is a fully-managed, policy-driven service that allows you to centrally automate data protection across multiple AWS services spanning compute, storage, and databases. Using AWS Backup, you can centrally create and manage backups of your application data, protect your […]