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GCP – Get more insights out of your Google Search data with BigQuery
Many digital marketers and analysts use BigQuery to bring marketing data sources together, like Google Analytics and Google Ads, to uncover insights about their marketing campaigns and websites. We’re excited to dive deeper into a new type of connection that adds Google Search data into this mix. Earlier this year, Search Console announced bulk data […]
GCP – The search experience within the Google Cloud console just got a bit easier
The Google Cloud console is a powerful platform that lets users manage their cloud projects end-to-end with an intuitive web-based UI. With over 120 Google Cloud products across thousands of pages, it can be challenging to navigate through the console quickly, and many users don’t like to use the command line interface. To help, Google […]
GCP – How to integrate a Virtual Agent using Google Dialogflow ES into a Twilio Conversation
Twilio Flex is an omni-channel CCaaS (Contact Center as a Service) that makes it easy to build personalized support that’s unique to your business. In this post, we will show you how to integrate Flex’s asynchronous channels with Google DialogFlow. Flex uses Twilio Conversations to natively support conversational messaging use cases such as customer support […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region
AWS Security Hub is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Region. You can now use Security Hub to centrally view and manage the security posture of your AWS accounts in this Region and take advantage of more than 110 security controls to automatically check your environment against security industry standards and best practices. […]
AWS – Introducing AWS Glue 4.0 for AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
We’re pleased to announce the launch of AWS Glue 4.0 for the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. AWS Glue 4.0 is a new version of AWS Glue that accelerates data integration workloads in AWS. AWS Glue 4.0 upgrades the Spark engines to Apache Spark 3.3.0 and Python 3.10. Glue 4.0 gives customers the latest Spark and […]
AWS – Amazon Athena updates data source connectors to improve performance and reduce cost
Amazon Athena has updated its data source connectors with new optimizations that can improve performance and reduce cost when querying data that does not reside in Amazon S3. Available today, the updated connectors use dynamic filtering and new predicate push down optimizations to perform more operations in the underlying data source, rather than in Athena, which […]
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache for Redis data tiering now supports auto scaling
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis data tiering on Graviton2-based R6gd nodes now supports auto scaling to automatically adjust capacity to maintain steady and predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. You can automatically scale your cluster horizontally by adding or removing shards or replica nodes. ElastiCache for Redis data tiering uses AWS Application Auto Scaling to […]
AWS – AWS Copilot announces Static Site pattern to host single-page web applications
Today, AWS released new version 1.28 of AWS Copilot with support of a new Static Site pattern, that makes it easier to deploy single page web applications on AWS. AWS Copilot is a command-line interface (CLI) that makes it easier for customers to build, deploy, and operate containerized applications on AWS by providing common application […]
AWS – AWS Compute Optimizer supports external performance metrics in 5 new regions
AWS Compute Optimizer now supports external performance metrics from 4 observability partners: Datadog, Dynatrace, Instana, and New Relic in 5 additional regions – Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Middle East (Bahrain), Africa (Cape Town), and Europe (Milan). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now supports fine-tuning of Foundation Models with domain adaptation
Starting today, Amazon SageMaker JumpStart provides the capability to fine-tune a large language model, particularly a text generation model on a domain-specific data set. Customers can now fine-tune models with their custom data set to improve performance in specific domains. For example, this blog describes how to use domain adaption to fine tune a GPT-J […]