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GCP – Understand why your metrics moved with contribution analysis in BigQuery ML, now GA
The key to effective data-driven decision making is quickly processing and extracting insights from large amounts of data. However, doing this efficiently and at scale is a challenge. Imagine a retail scenario where you’re trying to identify the highest performing promotions by analyzing sales data across products, stores, locations, and a large customer base, in […]

GCP – Multi-cloud AI made easier: Aiven for AlloyDB Omni now generally available
Building modern, data-driven applications requires a database that can handle transactional, analytical, and vector search workloads, especially as AI and machine learning become increasingly vital. You need a solution that scales, maintains compliance, delivers consistent performance, and that doesn’t require constant re-architecting. Whether you’re building transactional, translytical, or generative AI applications across one or multiple […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch RUM adds support for Interaction to Next Paint (INP) Web Vital
Today, CloudWatch RUM, a real-time monitoring service that visualizes and analyzes user interactions with web applications, announces support for Interaction to Next Paint (INP) web vital monitoring. This crucial metric would help customers measure the latency of a page’s response to user interactions, offering insights into the end-user experience of their web application. INP is […]

AWS – Amazon Connect now supports audio optimization for Omnissa cloud desktops
Amazon Connect now makes it easier to deliver high-quality voice experiences in Omnissa Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments. Amazon Connect automatically optimizes audio by redirecting media from your agent’s local desktop to Connect, simplifying the agent experience and improving audio quality by reducing network hops. Agents can simply log into their Omnissa remote desktop application […]

AWS – Amazon FSx for Lustre is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, providing fully managed shared storage with the scalability and performance of the popular Lustre file system. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It […]

AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, providing fully managed shared storage in the cloud with the data access and management capabilities of ONTAP. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file […]

AWS – Amazon FSx for OpenZFS is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, providing fully managed shared file storage built on the OpenZFS file system. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range […]

AWS – Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports resource exclusion
Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports the ability to exclude network resources when analyzing reachability between a source and destination, providing you greater flexibility to run reachability analyses. VPC Reachability Analyzer is a configuration analysis feature that enables you to check network reachability between a source resource and a destination resource in your virtual private […]

AWS – Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, providing fully managed shared storage built on Windows Server. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of […]
AWS – Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is now available in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region, providing fully managed shared storage built on Windows Server. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads […]