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AWS – AWS Shield Advanced is now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the availability of AWS Shield Advanced in the Middle East (UAE) region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 X2idn and X2iedn instances now available in US West (N California)
Starting today, memory optimized Amazon EC2 X2idn and X2iedn instances are available in US West (Northern California). X2idn and X2iedn instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and built using AWS Nitro System, are designed for memory-intensive workloads and deliver improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to […]

AWS – Amazon Connect now enables long lasting, persistent chat experiences
Amazon Connect now makes it easier to deliver long lasting, persistent chat experiences for your customers. Persistent chats enable customers to resume previous conversations with the context, metadata, and transcripts carried over, eliminating the need for customers to repeat themselves and allowing agents to provide personalized service with access to the entire conversation history. To […]

AWS – Announcing the new private offers page in the AWS Marketplace Console
Today, AWS announces the new private offers page in the AWS Marketplace Console, giving customers a consolidated view of available AWS Marketplace private offers. This launch makes it easier for customers to view their private offer information and make more informed purchasing decisions by accessing them directly in the console. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 Launch Templates now support AWS Systems Manager parameters for AMIs
Starting today, Amazon EC2 Launch Templates support AWS Systems Manager parameters for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). This simplifies automation and reduces misconfiguration likelihood by eliminating the need to create a new launch template version for every AMI update. Read More for the details.

GCP – Answering the Top-25 most asked Google Cloud questions of 2022
Google Cloud is on an exceptional growth trajectory. With our investments in multicloud and AI/ML, to sustainable infrastructure, industry solutions, and technology we are proud that our customers trust Google Cloud solutions to digitally transform their business. We deeply understand today’s technology requirements and the need to continuously innovate. In addition, we always listen to […]

GCP – Optimize Cloud Composer via Better Airflow DAGs
Hosting, orchestrating, and managing data pipelines is a complex process for any business. Google Cloud offers Cloud Composer – a fully managed workflow orchestration service – enabling businesses to create, schedule, monitor, and manage workflows that span across clouds and on-premises data centers. Cloud Composer is built on the popular Apache Airflow open source project […]

GCP – Built with BigQuery: How Tamr delivers Master Data Management at scale and what this means for a data product strategy
Master data is a holistic view of your key business entities, providing a consistent set of identifiers and attributes that give context to the business data that matters most to your organization. It’s about ensuring that clean, accurate, curated data – the best available – is accessible throughout the company to manage operations and make […]

GCP – Building an automated serverless deployment pipeline with Cloud Build
You’ve got a shiny new application ready to deploy to the cloud. After researching your options, you land on using Cloud Run with Cloud Build to build and push your containerized application code to an Artifact Registry repository. In three steps, using a Dockerfile and a Cloud Build configuration you build your container, push it […]
AWS – Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the AWS Europe (Spain) region
Customers can now create file systems using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region. Read More for the details.