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GCP – One small step for RFPs, one giant leap for clean energy
To create a clean energy future, buyers and sellers must transact faster and smarter. As a long-time champion of clean energy, we have learned many lessons over the decades — and one of the most significant is we’re not moving fast enough. That’s why, in collaboration with LevelTen Energy and with feedback from energy sellers, […]

AWS – Application Auto Scaling now supports Metric Math for Target Tracking policies
Application Auto Scaling customers can now use arithmetic operations and mathematical functions to customize the metrics used with Target Tracking policies. Target Tracking works like a thermostat – it continuously changes the capacity of the scaled resource to maintain the scaling metric at the customer-defined target level. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances now support in-place operating system updates
Starting today, customers can update Apple macOS operating system from within the guest environment on their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) M1 Mac instances. With this capability, customers can now update their guest environments to a specific or latest macOS (non-beta) version without having to tear down their existing macOS environments, launch new instances, and […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 M6a and C6a instances now available in South America (Sao Paulo) region
Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6a instances and compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C6a instances are available in South America (Sao Paulo) region. These instances are powered by third-generation AMD EPYC processors with an all-core turbo frequency of up to 3.6 GHz, and they are built on the AWS Nitro System. M6a instances […]

AWS – Announcing an updated console experience for Amazon GameLift
We are excited to announce the launch of the updated Amazon GameLift console experience to help customers more intuitively and efficiently manage and scale their game servers. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed solution that allows you to manage and scale dedicated game servers for session-based multiplayer games. With this release, customers can more easily monitor and […]

AWS – Amazon Kendra releases Confluence Server Connector
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Confluence Server Connector to index and search documents from Confluence Server. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Kendra releases SharePoint OnPrem Connectors
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra SharePoint OnPrem Connectors (2013, 2016, 2019) and Subscription Edition to index and search messages from SharePoint OnPrem. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Kendra releases Confluence Cloud Connector
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Confluence Cloud Connector to index and search documents from Confluence Cloud. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces security analytics
Amazon OpenSearch Service announces security analytics that provides new threat monitoring, detection, and alerting features. These capabilities help you to detect and investigate potential security threats that may disrupt your business operations or pose a threat to sensitive organizational data. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing cross-account support for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points
Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points now support datasets that are replicated across multiple AWS accounts. Cross-account Multi-Region Access Points simplify object storage access for applications that span both AWS Regions and accounts, avoiding the need for complex request routing logic in your applications. They provide a single global endpoint for your multi-region applications, and dynamically […]