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Azure – Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB to Azure Data Explorer Synapse Link
Now generally available: managed ingestion from Azure Cosmos DB to Azure Data Explorer in near real time. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL supports new minor versions 5.7.42 and 8.0.33
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor versions 5.7.42 and 8.0.33. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community. Read More […]
AWS – AWS Step Functions adds integration for 7 services including Amazon VPC Lattice
AWS Step Functions expands its AWS SDK integrations with support for 7 additional AWS services including Amazon VPC Lattice, Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor, AWS IoT TwinMaker, and Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens now offers screen recording
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides screen recording capabilities, making it easy for you to help agents improve their performance. With screen recording, you can identify areas for agent coaching (e.g., long contact handle duration or non-compliance with business processes) by not only listening to customer calls or reviewing chat transcripts, but also watching agents’ […]
AWS – Announcing AWS Partner Analytics Dashboard for AWS Partner Central
AWS Partners now have deeper insights into their Amazon Web Services (AWS) business through AWS Partner Analytics Dashboard, accessible from AWS Partner Central. The dashboard provides Alliance Leads for partners at the Validated or Differentiated with a 360-degree view of their AWS business, including opportunity pipeline, funding benefits, and pipeline revenue. Read More for the […]
AWS – AWS Clean Rooms launches two capabilities to make it easier to collaborate at scale
Today, we are announcing two new AWS Clean Rooms capabilities to help business and technical users collaborate more easily and at scale. Analysis Builder is a guided UI that helps business users to generate insights without writing any code. Business users can use analysis builder to create and edit queries in their AWS Clean Rooms […]
AWS – AWS CloudShell is now available in 12 additional regions
AWS CloudShell is now generally available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Seoul), US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Europe (Paris), Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), Middle East (UAE), and Middle East (Bahrain) regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 M7a instances (Preview)
AWS announces the preview of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7a instances. M7a instances are designed to deliver the best x86 performance and price performance within the Amazon EC2 general purpose family, based on SPECint benchmarks. M7a instances are powered by fourth-generation AMD EPYC processors (code named Genoa) with an all-core turbo frequency of […]
GCP – AlloyDB for PostgreSQL under the hood: Business continuity
One of the most significant advantages of running databases in the cloud is the ability to ensure business continuity. In a database context, it’s common to define continuity as a combination of database availability and data durability. AlloyDB is a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database for demanding transactional workloads. AlloyDB employs rigorous business continuity and data resilience […]
GCP – New in Cloud Monitoring: Better tools for analysis, uptime checks, and alerts
We here on the Cloud Monitoring team have had a busy few months rolling out new capabilities to help you detect, troubleshoot, and remediate issues with your infrastructure and applications running on and outside of Google Cloud. We recently launched several new features to improve the visualization and troubleshooting experience and unify several key experiences […]