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AWS – Amazon Redshift announces support for two new geospatial H3 Indexing functions
Amazon Redshift extends support for Hexagonal Hierarchical Geospatial Indexing System, H3 for short, by adding two new H3 functions to Amazon Redshift’s previously announced H3 Indexing support in February 2024. H3 Indexing increases the performance of spatial queries at scale since the location information is pre-indexed. See this Amazon Big Data Blog on Amazon Redshift […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Screen Recording now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Connect screen recording is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West), expanding its reach to government and public sector customers. This feature, which enables customers to record their agent screens during customer interactions for quality assurance purposes, was previously available in all commercial AWS regions where Amazon Connect […]
AWS – Announcing AWS User Notifications GA on AWS CloudFormation
AWS User Notifications is now supported on AWS CloudFormation, allowing you to easily provision and manage User Notification resources as part of your application’s infrastructure-as-code (IaC). You can easily use User Notification to Configure Notifications to be sent via the Console Notifications Center, email, AWS Chatbot, or mobile push notifications to the AWS Console Mobile […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now offers a public preview of persistent agent connections for faster call handling
Amazon Connect now offers the ability to maintain an open communication channel between your agents and Amazon Connect, helping reduce the time it takes to establish a connection with a customer. Contact center administrators can configure an agent’s user profile to maintain a persistent connection after a conversation ends, allowing for subsequent calls to connect […]
AWS – AWS Encryption SDK for Go now generally available
Developers can now use the AWS Encryption SDK for Go to help protect their data. This open-source release makes it easier for developers to encrypt and decrypt their data when building applications using the Go programming language. The AWS Encryption SDK is a client-side encryption library designed to make it easy to encrypt and decrypt […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Talk cyber in business terms to win allies
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for January 2025. We’re starting off the year at the top with boards of directors, and how talking about cybersecurity in business terms can help us better convey the costs and priority and priority of the cybersecurity risks we face. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents […]
GCP – GKE delivers breakthrough Horizontal Pod Autoscaler performance
At Google Cloud, we are committed to providing the fastest and most reliable Kubernetes platform, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Today, we are excited to announce an improved Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), the Kubernetes feature that automatically updates workload resources to match demand. We rearchitected the HPA stack, resulting in a significant improvement in scaling performance. […]
GCP – The EU’s DORA regulation has arrived. Google Cloud is ready to help
As the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) takes effect today, financial entities in the EU must rise to a new level of operational resilience in the face of ever-evolving digital threats. At Google Cloud, we share your commitment to the goals of DORA. We believe in building a more resilient and secure financial sector, and […]
AWS – AWS CodePipeline introduces new debugging experience in AWS Management Console
AWS CodePipeline now offers an enhanced debugging experience in the AWS Management Console, enabling you to identify and resolve pipeline failures more efficiently. The new debugging interface introduces a dedicated debugging page, accessible through the left navigation bar’s “Action details” button. This page presents a simplified pipeline view with execution and action details displayed in […]
AWS – The AWS Management Console now supports simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts
Today, AWS announces multi-sesssion support which enables customers to access multiple AWS accounts in the AWS Console. Customers can sign-in to up to 5 sessions in a single browser, and this can be any combination of root, IAM, or federated roles in different accounts or in the same account. Customer applications scale multiple accounts following […]