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AWS – AWS Deadline Cloud launches additional sort fields for steps, tasks, and workers
AWS Deadline Cloud now supports the ability to sort on additional columns within step, task, and worker data, and filter tasks by status. This feature enables users to quickly find and organize data about their job submissions to their Deadline Cloud render farm. Customers operating a render farm will often have hundreds of jobs running […]

AWS – Announcing availability of AWS Outposts in Jordan
AWS Outposts can now be shipped and installed at your data center and on-premises locations in Jordan. AWS Outposts is a family of fully managed solutions that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises or edge location for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Outposts is ideal for workloads that require […]

AWS – AWS Mainframe Modernization File Transfer adds binary transfer and better performance
We are excited to announce the public availability of two new capabilities for the AWS Mainframe Modernization File Transfer with BMC feature. Users can now copy data sets in binary format without any conversion. This provides compatibility with modernization tools that require data sets to be processed in their raw mainframe format. It can be […]

GCP – Integrate Five9 VoiceStream with Google Cloud CCAI Agent Assist
Five9 is a cloud contact center provider that offers a VoiceStream subscription which allows their customers to access their domain’s audio stream and call events in real time. In this post, we will show you how to integrate VoiceStream Service with Google CCAI Agents using Five9 gRPC streaming supported solution. Five9 cloud contact center can […]

GCP – GenOps: the evolution of MLOps for gen AI
As organizations move to deploy Generative AI solutions at scale, they often face operational challenges. GenOps, or MLOps for Gen AI, addresses these challenges. GenOps combines DevOps principles with ML workflows to deploy, monitor, and maintain Gen AI models in production. It ensures Gen AI systems are scalable, reliable, and continuously improving. Why is MLOps […]

GCP – Tell a more complete data story with customized Looker charts and visualizations
Data is just a collection of numbers — unless you can use it to gain information and tell a story. At Google Cloud, we are continually expanding Looker’s capabilities to help you tell your data story and collaborate with metrics you can trust. Recently, we expanded the ability to convert out-of-the-box Looker visualizations with bullet […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports canary tag replication to associated AWS Lambda resource
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics, an outside-in monitoring capability to continually verify your customers’ experience using snippets of code called canaries, now supports replication of tags created on canaries to the associated AWS Lambda function to help you better identify and organize your AWS resources. You can now also filter canaries by tags on the canaries list […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Africa (Cape Town) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 12TiB of memory (u-12tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Africa (Cape Town) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data […]

AWS – Amazon RDS Performance Insights supports Aurora cluster-level configuration
Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) Performance Insights now supports configuration at the Aurora cluster level. Customers can configure Performance Insights or Enhanced Monitoring on all the instances within an Aurora cluster with a single click in the console or through APIs. With this launch, customers no longer need to spend manual effort to configure Performance […]
AWS – OR1 instances now available for existing Amazon OpenSearch Service domains
With OpenSearch 2.15, you can now leverage OR1 instances for your existing Amazon OpenSearch Service domains. OR1 delivers up to 30% price-performance improvement over existing instances (based on internal benchmarks), and uses Amazon S3 to provide 11 9s of durability. You can start using OR1 by simply updating your existing domain configuration, and choosing OR1 […]