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AWS – AWS Storage Gateway is now available in AWS Europe (Spain) and AWS Europe (Zurich) Regions
AWS Storage Gateway expands availability to the AWS Europe (Spain) and AWS Europe (Zurich) Regions enabling customers to deploy and manage hybrid cloud storage for their on-premises workloads. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Managed Services (AMS) achieves FedRAMP High Authorization
AWS Managed Services (AMS) Accelerate has achieved FedRAMP High authorization in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions, which are operated by employees who are U.S. citizens on U.S. soil. You can now use AMS Accelerate with workloads that require FedRAMP High categorization level. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SageMaker is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
Amazon SageMaker is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. Starting today, you can build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models in the region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Personalize simplifies onboarding with data insights
We are excited to announce that Amazon Personalize now provides analysis on your data to make onboarding easier than ever. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. Amazon Personalize trains custom models for each customer using their unique data. With this launch, Amazon Personalize […]

GCP – Introducing Spresso: A new solution to balance profit and conversion
When it comes to pricing strategy, balancing profit and conversion has long been a challenge for retailers, and one compounded by today’s rapidly changing commerce landscape. Macroeconomic factors such as rising costs of goods, fluctuating costs of shipping, changing consumer demand, and inflation make keeping up with pricing decisions nearly impossible. These factors, combined with […]

GCP – How The Home Depot gets a single pane of glass for metrics across 2,200 stores
“Are we making it easier for customers to buy hammers or are we stuck on toil?” At The Home Depot, part of SRE’s responsibility is to keep our developers focused on building the technologies that make it easier for our customers to buy home improvement goods and services. So we like to use the hammer […]

GCP – Better together: Looker connector for Looker Studio now generally available
Today’s leading organizations want to ensure their business users get fast access to data with real-time governed metrics, so they can make better business decisions. Last April, we announced our unified BI experience, bringing together both self-serve and governed BI. Now, we are making our Looker connector to Looker Studio generally available, enabling you to […]

GCP – These retailers have one thing in common
They run containers on Google Cloud. Why is that important and why should you care? Containers are at the heart of modern applications. According to the 2022 State of DevOps report, containers have been the number one deployment target for primary services and applications for the past two years, and adoption continues to accelerate rapidly. […]

AWS – Announcing Porting Advisor for Graviton
AWS announces the general availability of Porting Advisor for Graviton. The Porting Advisor for Graviton is an open-source command line tool that analyzes source code and generates a report highlighting missing and outdated libraries and code constructs that may require modification along with recommendations for alternatives. It accelerates your transition to AWS Graviton-based instances by […]
AWS – Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) now manages IP Addresses in your network outside your AWS Organization
Amazon VPC IP address manager (IPAM) now lets you manage IP addresses in accounts outside of your AWS Organization using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM). This simplifies your IP management workflows (e.g., plan, track, and monitor) by enabling you to use a single IPAM across all your AWS accounts. Read More for the details.