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AWS – AWS Backup announces support for Amazon Aurora continuous backup
Today, AWS Backup announces support for Amazon Aurora continuous backup, allowing specific point-in-time restore within customers’ retention period of up to 35 days. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. With this launch, Aurora customers using AWS Backup can now meet their Recovery […]

AWS – Amazon SES email receiving service expands to 7 new regions
Today we’re thrilled to announce that Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is expanding its email receiving capabilities to 7 new regions. This expansion provides businesses and developers who deal with a high volume of emails a robust solution for swift processing. As the email receiver, SES handles underlying mail-receiving operations, such as communication with other […]

AWS – AWS NAT Gateway is now available in the AWS Los Angeles Local Zone us-west-2-lax-1a
AWS NAT Gateway is now available in the Los Angeles Local Zone us-west-2-lax-1a. AWS Local Zones is a type of AWS infrastructure deployment that places AWS compute, storage, database, and other select services closer to large population, industry, and IT centers where no AWS Region exists today. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Route 53 now supports AWS-managed prefix lists for health checks
Starting today, AWS-managed prefix lists can be used for Amazon Route 53 health checks to simplify the process of limiting inbound traffic to only the IP addresses associated with Route 53 health check servers. These prefix lists are maintained by Route 53 and contain up-to-date IP ranges for Route 53 health check servers. Read More […]

AWS – IAM roles last used and last accessed information available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
IAM roles last used and IAM last accessed information are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. IAM reports the latest timestamp when role credentials were used to make an AWS request. This information makes it easier for you to identify and remove unused roles. IAM also provides the latest timestamp when an IAM […]

AWS – Amazon Connect launches APIs to programmatically configure views in step-by-step guides
Amazon Connect now provides APIs to programmatically create and manage view resources used in step-by-step guides. View resources define what gets displayed in your agent’s UI during a step-by-step guide. With this launch, you are able to define static and dynamic content in a view, including layouts and style, which enables you to help control […]

GCP – Firestore adds point-in-time recovery and scheduled backups
We are excited to announce the launch of two new disaster recovery features for Firestore: point-in-time recovery (PITR) and scheduled backups. These features will provide data protection against human errors and disasters. This is in addition to Firestore’s automatic and redundant data replication, which allows the service to guarantee up to 99.999% SLA availability with […]

GCP – How Vertex AI empowered our Supply Chain Science team at Wayfair
For the past few years, Wayfair has been migrating from its on-premises data centers to Google Cloud. As part of this transition, we explored Vertex AI as an end-to-end ML platform and adopted several of its components, including Vertex AI Pipelines, Trainingand Feature Store as our preferred solution for new ML solutions going forward. Building […]

GCP – Actuate your data in real time with new Bigtable change streams
Cloud Bigtable is a highly scalable, fully managed NoSQL database service that offers single-digit millisecond latency and an availability SLA up to 99.999%. It is a good choice for applications that require high throughput and low latency, such as real-time analytics, gaming, and telecommunications. Cloud Bigtable change streams is a feature that allows you to […]
GCP – Delivering greater insights for insurance underwriters with BigQuery geospatial analytics
About CNA A key goal for insurers is to provide the best match between customer need, product offering and the premium charged. However, the price charged and eventual profitability is partially dependent on how well the insurer understands and assesses the risk being insured. This is usually a time-consuming and often subjective process that relies […]