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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 […]
GCP – Learn how Cloud SQL for MySQL Enterprise Plus edition can accelerate your MySQL workloads
As a fully managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgresSQL and SQL Server, Cloud SQL lowers the cost of database ownership in several ways: it makes it easy to set up and operate a highly available database as well as scale with replicas, it provides security, it automates database upgrades and maintenance, and it manages […]
Azure – Public Preview: Azure Container Storage Updates: Expanded regions and performance options
Azure Container Storage (in preview) offers volume management built natively for containers. With the latest updates you can now deploy in 26 regions, use volume resize & cloning and choose from an expanded list of Disk SKUs. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Step Functions launches enhanced error handling
AWS Step Functions announces the availability of enhanced error handling capabilities in your AWS Step Functions workflows to help you identify errors more clearly and provide you with fine-grained control over your retry strategies. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating 12,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to automate […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker now provides a new quick Studio setup experience
Today, we are excited to announce the new quick Studio setup for Amazon SageMaker. This new quick setup allows you to create SageMaker Studio with default pre-sets in minutes for individual users. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaConnect adds new Amazon CloudWatch metrics
Starting today, AWS Elemental MediaConnect has additional metrics for improved visibility into your video streams and upfront error detection. The new metrics indicate consecutive packet drops, consecutive packets not recovered, jitter, latency, and up time. You can easily monitor your live video stream source metrics in the AWS Management Console, via Amazon CloudWatch, or via […]
AWS – Amazon Detective adds Amazon EKS security investigations to AWS Workshop Studio
You can now learn how to use Amazon Detective to conduct security investigations for threats detected in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and AWS security findings in the latest Amazon Detective Workshop Studio. These new modules will help you understand how to dive deep quickly on container threats but also broaden your investigations to […]
AWS – Announcing daily disbursements for AWS Marketplace sellers
AWS Marketplace now enables sellers to set disbursement preferences to receive their outstanding balances on a daily basis, granting increased flexibility. While AWS Marketplace sellers, including independent software vendors (ISVs) and Channel Partners, were previously limited to monthly disbursements on a specific day, now sellers can select between daily and monthly disbursements. For the monthly […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra releases Web Crawler for dynamic content support
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Web Crawler to index and search pages, including dynamic pages from web sites they have authorization to crawl from. Read More for […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub now supports findings consolidation in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS announces the availability of control and finding consolidation capabilities in AWS Security Hub in the AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East) Regions. The consolidated controls view shows all security controls in one place. You can use it to help identify misconfigurations based on severity and number of failed resources, improve your overall security score, and […]