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AWS – Amazon Data Firehose delivers data streams into Apache Iceberg format tables in Amazon S3
Amazon Data Firehose (Firehose) can now deliver data streams into Apache Iceberg tables in Amazon S3. Firehose enables customers to acquire, transform, and deliver data streams into Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, OpenSearch, Splunk, Snowflake, and other destinations for analytics. With this new feature, Firehose integrates with Apache Iceberg, so customers can deliver data streams directly […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches the ability to initiate outbound SMS contacts
Amazon Connect now supports the ability to initiate outbound SMS contacts, enabling you to help increase customer satisfaction by engaging your customers on their preferred communication channel. You can now deliver proactive SMS experiences for scenarios such as post-contact surveys, appointment reminders, and service updates, allowing customers to respond at their convenience. Additionally you can […]
GCP – The Google for Startups Cloud Program fuels more AI innovation
Startups are building the future of AI models, infrastructure, and applications on Google Cloud. These fast-growing AI startups want to be able to accelerate their product development, ensure capacity, and scale cost-effectively. And they can with many of our unique offerings: a broad choice of Google-built, open, and partner models; our Vertex AI platform; access […]
GCP – Understand your Cloud Storage footprint with AI-powered queries and insights
Google Cloud Storage is at the core of many customers’ cloud deployment because of its simplicity, affordability and near-infinite scale. But managing millions or billions of objects across numerous projects and with hundreds of developers can be complex, often requiring a team of analysts manually analyzing data for insights. Earlier this year, we introduced the […]
GCP – Making the AI PC accessible to all with Chromebook Plus
The next wave of Google AI for businesses As business leaders look to enhance worker productivity, IT is tasked with evaluating how AI-powered devices can provide their businesses with a competitive advantage. While leaders believe in the promise of AI PCs, they may not be able to justify the prohibitive investment required to get started. […]
GCP – capa Explorer Web: A Web-Based Tool for Program Capability Analysis
Written by: Soufiane Fariss, Willi Ballenthin, Mike Hunhoff, Genwei Jiang, Tina Johnson, Moritz Raabe capa, developed by Mandiant’s FLARE team, is a reverse engineering tool that automates the identification of program capabilities. In this blog post we introduce capa Explorer Web, a browser-based tool to display the capabilities found by capa. The capa Explorer Web […]
AWS – AWS Announces AWS re:Post Agent, a generative AI-powered virtual assistant
AWS re:Post launches re:Post Agent, a generative AI-powered assistant that’s designed to enhance customer interactions by offering intelligent and near real-time responses on re:Post. re:Post Agent provides the first response to questions in the re:Post community. Cloud developers can now get general technical guidance faster to successfully build and operate their cloud workloads. With re:Post […]
AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 increases application settings storage limit
Amazon AppStream 2.0 has expanded the default size limit for application settings persistence from 1GB to 5GB. This increase allows end users to store more application data and settings with no manual intervention and without impacting the performance or session setup time. Application settings persistence allows users’ customizations and configurations to persist across sessions. When […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge announces new event delivery latency metric for Event Buses
Amazon EventBridge Event Bus now provides an end-to-end event delivery latency metric in Amazon CloudWatch that tracks the duration between event ingestion and successful delivery to the targets on your Event Bus. This new IngestionToInvocationSuccessLatency allows you to now detect and respond to event processing delays caused by under-performing, under-scaled, or unresponsive targets. Amazon EventBridge […]
AWS – Launch Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor from Amazon Network Load Balancer console
By adding your Network Load Balancer (NLB) to a monitor, you can gain improved visibility into your application’s internet performance and availability using Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor. You can now create or associate a monitor for an NLB directly when you create an NLB in the AWS Management console. You can create a monitor for […]