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AWS – AWS License Manager Linux subscriptions expands region and administrator support
AWS License Manager extends support for delegated administrator to Linux subscriptions discovery and governance capabilities. Using delegated administrator, your management account can give access to another account in your organization to track Linux subscriptions on AWS. Delegated administrator gives you the flexibility to separate subscription management from billing and other central management tasks. Read More […]
AWS – Announcing Favorites feature to organize AWS Systems Manager documents and runbooks
Today, we are excited to announce Systems Manager Favorites, a quick way for customers to find and execute their most important and frequently used documents and runbooks. Documents and runbooks define the actions that Systems Manager performs on your managed instances and other AWS resources. Now, you can select up to 20 of your favorite […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches a new API for customers to access historical metrics
Amazon Connect now provides a new API to programmatically access trailing 14 days of historical agent and contact metrics data. This new API extends the capabilities of current GetMetricData API, that provides historical metrics data only for the last 24 hours, provides new metrics (e.g., number of contacts disconnected or callbacks attempted) and the ability […]
GCP – Cloud Spanner powers Kochava’s mobile analytics platform
Kochava is a real-time data company offering leading omni-channel measurement and attribution solutions for data-driven marketers and publishers. Via the Marketers Operating System™ (m/OS), Kochava delivers actionable data, providing marketers with a platform that seamlessly integrates and manages customer identity, measurement and data controls. With a unified view of all data and critical omni-channel solutions […]
GCP – Using ML to predict the weather and climate risk
Introduction All beings on this planet are affected by atmospheric phenomena we call the weather. Because of this, humans have invented all sorts of measuring tools, and luckily have loads of data from observations. All this data has been on quite a technological journey; from being collected on paper and local servers in basements, to now […]
GCP – Introducing regional placement in Dataflow
We’re excited to announce that Dataflow now supports regional placement of workers. Building upon Auto Zone placement Dataflow deploys its workers as Compute Engine resources, which are hosted in multiple locations worldwide. Since 2018, Dataflow has supported the Auto Zone feature, which uses the available zone capacity to automatically select the best single zone within […]
GCP – Adopting SRE: Standardizing your SLO design process
Poll three Site Reliability Engineers with the question “What is SRE?” and you’re likely to get five different answers: an implementation of DevOps, a role, a set of practices, a cultural shift, a snazzy title. While these definitions may not necessarily align with those in the SRE books, there is one throughline differentiating SRE from […]
AWS – Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.10.17
Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.10.17, which includes several important fixes and performance optimizations to the previously supported version, RabbitMQ 3.10.10. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easier to set up and operate message brokers on AWS. You can reduce your operational […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight enhances the developer experience with SDK 2.0
QuickSight Embedding SDK is a Javascript library that allows developers to integrate analytics functionality into their products and applications. The SDK version 2.0 supports TypeScript, ES6 (async/await) syntax, and utility features that enable developers to quickly build analytics experiences within their applications. Read More for the details.
GCP – Google is a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Conversational AI Platforms
We’re excited to share that Gartner has recognized Google as a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Conversational AI Platforms, authored by Bern Elliot and Gabriele Rigon. We believe this recognition is a testament to Google Cloud’s robust investments and commitment to innovation in AI, coupled with a deep understanding of enterprise […]