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AWS – AWS Resource Groups now supports 160 more resource types
Today, AWS Resource Groups is adding support for an additional 160 resource types for tag-based Resource Groups. Customers can now use Resource Groups to group and manage resources from services such as AWS Code Catalyst and AWS Chatbot. AWS Resource Groups enables you to model, manage and automate tasks on large numbers of AWS resources […]

AWS – Amazon Connect agent workspace expands capabilities for third-party applications, including contact-related actions
The Amazon Connect agent workspace now supports additional capabilities for third-party applications including the ability make outbound calls, accept, transfer, and clear contacts, and update agent status. These enhancements allow you to integrate applications that give agents more intuitive workflows. For example, agents can now initiate one-click outbound calls from a custom-built call history interface […]

AWS – AWS AppSync Events now supports data source integrations for channel namespaces
Starting today, AWS AppSync Events, a fully managed service for serverless WebSocket APIs with full connection management, now supports data source integrations for channel namespaces. This new feature enables developers to associate AWS Lambda functions, Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon Aurora databases, and other data sources with channel namespace handlers to process published events and subscription […]

GCP – Accelerate your data-to-insights journey with enhanced BigQuery data canvas
In today’s data-driven world, the ability to extract meaningful insights quickly is paramount. Yet, for many, the journey from raw data to actionable intelligence is fraught with challenges. Complex SQL queries, time-consuming iterative analyses, and the gap between technical and non-technical users often hinder progress. BigQuery data canvas is a visual workspace designed to democratize […]

AWS – Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer and Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer are now available in Europe (Spain) Region
With this launch, VPC Reachability Analyzer and VPC Network Access Analyzer are now available in Europe (Spain) Region. VPC Reachability Analyzer allows you to diagnose network reachability between a source resource and a destination resource in your virtual private clouds (VPCs) by analyzing your network configurations.For example, Reachability Analyzer can help you identify a missing […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse now supports attribute based access control
Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse now supports attribute-based access control (ABAC), using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principal and session tags to simplify data access, grant creation, and maintenance. With ABAC, you can manage permissions using dynamic business attributes associated with user identities. Previously, SageMaker Lakehouse granted access to lakehouse databases and tables by directly assigning […]

AWS – AWS AppConfig now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
AWS AppConfig now supports dual-stack endpoints, facilitating connectivity through Internet Protocol Version 6. The existing AWS AppConfig endpoints supporting IPv4 will remain available for backwards compatibility. The continuous growth of the internet has created an urgent need for IPv6 adoption, as IPv4 address space reaches its limits. Through AWS AppConfig’s implementation of dual-stack endpoints, organizations […]

GCP – How Mars Wrigley uses agile media experiments to measure sales lift with EPAM and Cortex Framework
Consumer packaged goods brands invest significantly in advertising, driving brand affinity to boost sales now and in the future. Campaigns are often optimized as they run by monitoring media-in-progress metrics against strategies like targeting specific audiences cohorts. However, because most sales happen in physical stores, accurately linking media sales lift to target audiences while ads […]

GCP – DORA’s new report: Unlock generative AI in software development
How is generative AI actually impacting developers’ daily work, team dynamics, and organizational outcomes? We’ve moved beyond simply asking if organizations are using AI, and instead are focusing on how they’re using it. That’s why we’re excited to share DORA’s Impact of Generative AI in Software Development report. Based on extensive data and developer interviews, […]
GCP – Migrating your apps from MySQL to Spanner just got easier
Yesterday’s databases aren‘t sufficient for tomorrow’s applications, which need to deliver dynamic, AI-driven experiences at unpredictable scale and with zero downtime. To help, at Google Cloud Next 25, we announced new functionality, improved performance, and migration tooling to simplify modernizing database workloads from MySQL to Spanner, Google Cloud’s horizontally scalable, always-on operational database. MySQL simply […]