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GCP – How Kirklees Council brought digital inclusion to its communities with ChromeOS
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Charles Crossland, IT Change Manager for Kirklees Council, a borough of 425,000 in north-central England. Kirklees Council chose ChromeOS devices with managed guest sessions to expand digital outreach to residents through public digital hubs and loaner devices. At Kirklees Council, we strive to be a community that combines a […]
AWS – AWS Resilience Hub extends support for Amazon ElastiCache
AWS Resilience Hub has expanded its capabilities to assess applications that include Amazon ElastiCache. Resilience Hub serves as a centralized platform to define, validate, and monitor the resilience of your applications, helping you avoid unnecessary downtime because of software, infrastructure, or operational disruptions. For applications using Amazon ElastiCache, including ElastiCache Serverless and Global Datastores, AWS […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Grafana now supports silences for Grafana alerts
You can now use silences to suppress alert notifications for Grafana alerts in Amazon Managed Grafana. Grafana alerts enable you to proactively monitor your data and receive notifications about critical issues in real time. Silences allow you to temporarily disable notifications from specific alerts, for a specified duration. Silences reduce alert fatigue during scheduled maintenances, […]
AWS – AWS Resource Explore now supports discovery of all tagged AWS resources
AWS Resource Explorer introduced a new search operator that powers the complete discovery of tagged AWS resources across Services, AWS Regions, and AWS accounts. Customers use Resource Explorer to discover both tagged and untagged resources for resource types with full Resource Explorer support. Starting today, customers can specifically request to query all of their tagged […]
AWS – Amazon S3 to apply a default minimum object size for S3 Lifecycle transition rules
Amazon S3 is beginning to apply a default minimum object size of 128 KB for S3 Lifecycle transition rules to any S3 storage class. This change can help optimize your transition costs for datasets with many kilobyte-sized objects by reducing the number of transition requests. You can override this new default and customize the minimum […]
AWS – WorkSpaces Secure Browser now supports FIPS 140-3 validated cryptography
Today, AWS End User Computing Services announced that customers can use Federal Information Processing Standard 140-3 (FIPS) validated cryptography endpoints with their WorkSpaces Secure Browser portals. FIPS 140-3 is a U.S. and Canadian government standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive information. WorkSpaces Secure Browser FIPS endpoints use FIPS-validated cryptographic […]
AWS – Valkey GLIDE v1.1, a client for Valkey and Redis OSS, now supports Node.js
Today, we are announcing Node.js support for Valkey General Language Independent Driver for Enterprise (GLIDE). GLIDE is an open source client library for Valkey, an open source key-value data store that supports a variety of workloads such as caching and message queues. With this launch, GLIDE supports Java, Python, and Node.js. GLIDE is one of […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift data sharing governed through AWS Lake Formation is now available in 11 additional regions
AWS Lake Formation’s centralized access control and permission for Amazon Redshift data sharing is now available in 11 additional regions. You can manage permission grants, view access controls, and audit permissions on the tables and views in the Redshift datashares using Lake Formation APIs and the AWS Management Console. Furthermore, Lake Formation supports trusted identity […]
GCP – Moving from experimentation into production with Gemini and Vertex AI
You might have seen the recent stat on how 61% of enterprises are running generative AI use cases in production — and with industry leaders including PUMA, Snap, and Warner Brothers Discovery speaking at today’s Gemini at Work event, our customers are bringing this momentum to life. We’re inspired by what you – our customers […]
GCP – Introducing Customer Engagement Suite with Google AI
Since 2018, when we launched Contact Center AI, Google Cloud has helped thousands of organizations deliver better experiences to millions of their customers and employees through AI-powered features. Now, as new generative AI capabilities are demonstrating increasingly larger value for customer service operations, we are combining the rich features of Contact Center AI with our […]