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AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens dashboards now provide configurable groupings and filters
Amazon Connect Contact Lens dashboards now allow you to define widget level filters and groupings, re-order and re-size columns, and delete or add new metrics. 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. Now, […]
AWS – Introducing new larger sizes on Amazon EC2 Flex instances
AWS announces the general availability of two new larger sizes (12xlarge and 16xlarge) on Amazon EC2 Flex (C7i-flex, M7i-flex) instances. The new sizes expand the EC2 Flex portfolio, providing additional compute options to scale-up existing workloads or run larger sized applications that need additional memory. These instances are powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens launches new real-time dashboard
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now offers a new dashboard that lets you monitor real-time agent activity and take immediate actions such as listen-in to a contact, barge (take over) a contact, or change an agent state in a few clicks from a single interface. With this dashboard, you can view and compare real-time and historical […]
AWS – Amazon GuardDuty is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. You can now use this additional Region to continuously monitor and detect anomalous behavior, security threats, and sophisticated multi-stage attack sequences targeting your AWS accounts to help protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data. Tens of thousands of customers across many industries and geographies […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS Europe (Spain) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 R8g instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory […]
AWS – AWS Resource Explorer supports 29 new resource types
AWS Resource Explorer now supports 29 more resource types across all AWS commercial Regions from services including Amazon FSx, Amazon Route 53, and AWS Glue. With this release, customers can now search for the following resource types in AWS Resource Explorer: acm:certificate codepipeline:webhook comprehend:document-classifier comprehend:entity-recognizer databrew:job databrew:project dataexchange:data-sets dms:es dms:subgrp elasticmapreduce:cluster emr-containers:virtualclusters frauddetector:external-model frauddetector:model fsx:file-system […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 I8g instances are now available in Europe (Frankfurt) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 I8g instances are available in Europe (Frankfurt) region. I8g instances offer the best performance in Amazon EC2 for storage-intensive workloads. I8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, delivering up to 60% better compute performance compared to previous generation I4g instances. I8g instances use the latest third generation AWS Nitro SSDs, […]
GCP – New year, new updates to AI Hypercomputer
The last few weeks of 2024 were exhilarating as we worked to bring you multiple advancements in AI infrastructure, including the general availability of Trillium, our sixth-generation TPU, A3 Ultra VMs powered by NVIDIA H200 GPUs, support for up to 65,000 nodes in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and Parallelstore, our distributed file system service that […]
GCP – Bitly: Protecting users from malicious links with Web Risk
Bitly’s partnership with Google Web Risk helps enhance Bitly’s ability to protect users and build trust as they generate millions of links and QR Codes daily. Over the last decade, Bitly has solidified its reputation as a multiproduct connections platform, generating millions of links, QR codes, and mobile landing pages every day. Bitly enables users […]
GCP – C4A, the first Google Axion Processor, now GA with Titanium SSD
Today, we are thrilled to announce the general availability of C4A virtual machines with Titanium SSDs custom designed by Google for cloud workloads that require real-time data processing, with low-latency and high-throughput storage performance. Titanium SSDs on C4A VMs deliver storage performance of up to 2.4M random read IOPS, up to 10.4 GiB/s of read […]