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GCP – How to better manage customer identities to support an engaging ecommerce user experience
One of the fundamental questions that retailers constantly ask themselves is how well they know their customers and how they can build deeper relationships. Knowing who their customers are can have a direct impact on improving customer engagement, which can lead to increased conversion rates, customer loyalty, lifetime value, and higher return on marketing spend. […]
AWS – AWS Lake Formation launches Read-Only Administrator role
AWS Lake Formation is launching a Read-Only Administrator role which enables customers to add a Data Lake Administrator role with read-only permissions for Glue Data Catalog metadata and Lake Formation permissions. Previously, Data Lake Administrators could perform actions on the Glue Data Catalog and Lake Formation permissions, including modifying the Lake Formation grants and LF-Tags. […]
AWS – AWS launches a new Local Zone in Phoenix, Arizona
Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new Local Zone in Phoenix, Arizona. This new AWS Local Zone comes with Amazon EC2C6i, M6i, R6i and C6gn instances and Amazon EBS volume types gp2, gp3, io1, sc1, and st1. You can also access Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Application Load Balancer, AWS Direct Connect and NAT […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now supports AWS CloudFormation Templates
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, is a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment. Starting today, you can deploy RDS Custom for Oracle using AWS CloudFormation templates. AWS CloudFormation simplifies provisioning and management of resources on AWS. Read […]
AWS – AWS Glue now available in 2 new regions
We are happy to announce that AWS Glue, a serverless data integration service, is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.11
AWS Lambda now supports creating serverless applications using Python 3.11. Developers can use Python 3.11 as both a managed runtime and a container base image, and AWS will automatically apply updates to the managed runtime and base image as they become available. You can use Python 3.11 with Lambda@Edge, allowing you to customize low-latency content […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Serverless now supports retrieving secrets from AWS Secrets Manager
We are happy to announce that starting today, you can now retrieve secrets from AWS Secrets Manager on Amazon EMR Serverless from your Spark and Hive jobs. Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option that makes it easy for data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark and […]
AWS – Amazon GameLift expands SDK support for Unity based game developers
We are excited to announce that Amazon GameLift now supports both the .NET Standard and .NET Framework profiles in Unity with the latest update to the Amazon GameLift Server SDK. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed service that allows developers to quickly manage and scale dedicated game servers for multiplayer games. With this release, Amazon […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports rule-based identity resolution
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports rule-based identity resolution to match and merge similar profiles, helping companies maintain accurate customer information and deliver more personalized customer interactions via agents and automated experiences. Read More for the details.
GCP – Measuring your sustainability initiative for success
There’s plenty of truth in the saying, “you can’t manage what you don’t measure.” Careful and accurate measurement is what distinguishes effective environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs from initiatives that waste resources, at best, and expose your organization to accusations of greenwashing, at worst. Knowing where you stand is the first step in understanding […]