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AWS – AWS Supply Chain extends availability in two additional AWS Regions
AWS Supply Chain is now generally available in Australia (Sydney) and Europe (Ireland) based on increased customer demand in these regions. With this release AWS Supply Chain is now available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Australia (Sydney) and Europe (Ireland). Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Connect launches CloudFormation support for routing profiles and queues
Amazon Connect now supports AWS CloudFormation for routing profile and queue resources, in addition to other resources used to configure a contact center like Connect instances, flows, S3 buckets and lambdas. You can use AWS CloudFormation templates to programmatically deploy Amazon Connect routing profiles and queues in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way, reducing the […]

GCP – DevOps Awards winner Improbable on “unleashing the full power of the cloud”
Improbable Worlds Limited — commonly known as Improbable — is a metaverse technology company that’s been at the forefront of building virtual worlds since 2012. With a world-class team, Improbable creates immersive gaming and event experiences using its Morpheus Technology, allowing over 15,000 users to interact as if they were in the same place at the same […]

GCP – How APIs bolstered the success of the Saudi healthcare system through the pandemic
In the burgeoning months of 2020, with the world on the brink of a cascading global shutdown, healthcare organizations large and small were facing their greatest technical challenge in modern history . When governments ordered citizens to shelter in place indefinitely, the demand for telehealth services reached levels previously considered unfathomable. With such an unforeseen […]

GCP – Put your data to use across organizations with a Data Sharing and Analytics Platform.
Securely sharing data and analytics is fundamental to an organization’s data cloud strategy. It’s how you unlock and create value from your data assets, for you and your stakeholders. However, large and data-rich organizations that collaborate across teams, systems, and other organizations, often struggle to make this work. How do you get started? We’ve been […]

GCP – Using Workforce Identity Federation with API-based web applications
Workforce Identity Federation allows use of an external identity provider (IdP) to authenticate and authorize users (including employees, partners, and contractors) to Google Cloud resources without provisioning identities in Cloud Identity. Before its introduction, only identities existing within Cloud Identity could be used with Cloud Identity Access Management (IAM). Here’s how to configure an example […]

GCP – Six essential tips for automating API delivery with CI/CD pipelines
In modern software development, automating delivery using Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines draws parallels to automotive assembly lines that doubled the production while cutting down costs by 65%. According to a recent report from Postman, over 51% of respondents indicated that their organizations devote more than half of their development efforts to APIs. […]

GCP – DevOps Awards winner Uber on building engineering sustainability
Since it was established in San Francisco in 2009, Uber has been dedicated to connecting the physical and digital worlds. Uber’s app-based offerings connect around 130 million monthly active platform consumers with over 5.6 million monthly active drivers and couriers on Uber and Uber Eats. In this blog post, we’re highlighting Uber for the DevOps […]

AWS – Amazon Redshift ML announces integration with Amazon Forecast
Amazon Redshift ML enables you to create, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models using familiar SQL commands. With Amazon Redshift ML, you can now leverage Amazon Forecast, a ML-based time-series forecasting service, without having to learn any new tools or having to create pipelines to move your data. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS IoT Device Defender now supports monitoring of device disconnect durations
AWS IoT Device Defender Rules Detect now supports a new disconnect duration metric to monitor the duration of disconnect of each device. With this additional metric, you can track how long a device has been disconnected to learn whether it is operating as expected. You can also configure alarms at predefined threshold levels and be […]