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GCP – Beating inflation: 5 tips for retailers heading into the holidays
Budget concerns and inflation shock are causing noticeable shifts in consumer behavior, a head-spinning turnabout since the pandemic days of 2020. We went from not having access to enough goods to now not having the right goods at the right price points. Heading into the holiday season, retailers will need to look sharp and be […]
AWS – Introducing DTMF slot settings within Amazon Lex
Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems. Amazon Lex is excited to launch DTMF-only slot settings and configurable session attributes within the Lex console. Read More […]
GCP – Using the Open Source Insights dataset to analyze the security and compliance of your dependencies
Recent security events, like the Log4j issue, underscore the need for security teams to be vigilant in evaluating not only the code written by developers in-house, but also the open source packages that code depends on, and the code that those open source packages depend on, and so on. This web of dependencies forms a […]
GCP – “Ask for help, and give thanks” Hal Cohen’s Journey through two kidney transplants, life’s challenges
Editor’s note: Hal Cohen’s work at Google Cloud calls for technical knowledge, customer empathy, business sense, and the ability to work with diverse groups of people inside and outside of Google. However, his personal and professional strengths come from much more than that. Read on. Tell us about your work at Google Cloud. First off: […]
AWS – Amazon AppFlow now supports AWS Glue Data Catalog integration and provides enhanced data preparation
Amazon AppFlow is a fully-managed integration service that enables you to securely transfer data between Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications like Salesforce, SAP, Google Analytics, Facebook Ads, and ServiceNow, and AWS services like Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Redshift. With today’s launch, Amazon AppFlow now automates the preparation and registration of your SaaS data into the […]
AWS – AWS announces Amazon WorkSpaces Multi-Region Resilience
Amazon WorkSpaces Multi-Region Resilience offers cost-effective, easy-to-manage business continuity solutions that keep your users online and productive with less than 30-minute recovery time objective (RTO) using standby WorkSpaces in another AWS Region during disruptive events. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect launches new capabilities to help administrators manage saved reports
Amazon Connect now provides the ability for contact center administrators to view and delete all saved reports in an instance, including reports created by users who may have left the organization. Saved reports are custom real-time, historical, and login/logout reports that users can create to monitor contact center performance, as well as share and publish […]
AWS – TwinMaker Knowledge Graph is now generally available for AWS IoT TwinMaker
AWS IoT TwinMaker makes it easier to create digital twins of real-world systems such as buildings, factories, industrial equipment, and production lines. Now with the feature launch of TwinMaker Knowledge Graph, customers can query their digital twins, contextualize data from disparate data sources, and gain deeper insights into their real-world systems. As a result, customers can […]
GCP – Addressing your API use cases: Choosing between Apigee, API Gateway, and Cloud Endpoints
API adoption is exploding everywhere — in fact over 80% of web traffic is now API traffic (source). This is because APIs enable easier and more standardized delivery of services and data — and this tends to lead to business growth. Many organizations still regard APIs as implementation detail, but this massive growth of APIs […]
AWS – Announcing the new Applications widget on AWS Console Home
Today, we are excited to announce the launch of the new Applications widget on Console Home, providing one-click access to applications in AWS Systems Manager Application Manager and their associated collections of AWS resources, code, and related data. Read More for the details.