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AWS – Announcing unique place IDs for Amazon Location Service
Amazon Location Service now enables developers to retrieve known geographical locations using a unique identifier. For example, when using autocomplete functionality to help end-users complete their searches, developers can use the unique identifier of the end-user’s selection to retrieve the location in future queries. Using this unique identifier, developers can create consistent search experiences, filter […]

Azure – General availability: Azure Policy built-in definitions for Azure NetApp Files
The new Azure Policy built-in definitions for Azure NetApp Files enable organization admins to restrict creation of unsecure volumes or audit existing volumes. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Copilot, a CLI for the containerized apps, adds IAM permission boundaries and more
AWS customers can now download and use the latest version, v1.22, of AWS Copilot, a command line interface (CLI) for containerized applications. AWS Copilot makes it easier for customers to build, deploy, and operate containerized applications on AWS by providing a common application architecture and infrastructure patterns, user-friendly operational workflows, and set up of continuous […]

AWS – Amazon EMR Serverless is now available in 12 additional AWS Regions
Amazon EMR is excited to announce that Amazon EMR Serverless is now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, and Singapore), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt, London, Paris, and Stockholm), South America (Sao Paulo), US West (N. California), and US East (Ohio) regions. These regions are in addition to the existing US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), […]

AWS – Amazon DevOps Guru now available in seven additional regions
Amazon DevOps Guru is now available in the Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), US West (N. California), South America (São Paulo), and Canada (Central) regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights launches lifecycle events for Amazon ECS
Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights now provides lifecycle events for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). With Container Insights you can monitor, isolate, and diagnose your containerized applications running on ECS. Now with the addition of lifecycle events, you can easily correlate metrics, logs and events in a single view for more complete operational visibility. Read More […]

AWS – Announcing 1-Click templates and tutorials in AWS Budgets
Starting today, you can create budgets using a simplified 1-click workflow for common budgeting scenarios as well as take step-by-step tutorials to learn about creating different kinds of budgets. AWS Budgets helps you track against expected spend by sending alerts when your cost and usage exceeds (or is forecasted to exceed) thresholds you define, or when […]

AWS – AWS IoT FleetWise is now generally available
AWS IoT FleetWise is now generally available to help automotive companies collect, transform, and transfer vehicle data to the cloud in near real time. Automotive companies can use the data in the cloud to extensively analyze vehicle fleet health. Insights gained allow companies to quickly identify potential maintenance issues, make in-vehicle infotainment systems smarter, or […]

AWS – Amazon Connect launches updated flows UI and improved flow language
Amazon Connect now has an updated flow designer UI, that makes it easier and faster to build personalized and automated end-customer experiences. With this launch, you can now easily filter the available blocks to quickly find what you need to build the flow, create color coded connections between blocks, view additional block metadata (e.g., the full […]
GCP – How Volkswagen and Google Cloud are using machine learning to design more energy-efficient cars
Volkswagen strives to design beautiful, performant, and energy efficient vehicles. This entails an iterative process where designers go through many design drafts, evaluating each, integrating the feedback, and refining. For example, a vehicle’s drag coefficient—its resistance to air—is one of the most important factors of energy efficiency. Thus, getting estimates of the drag coefficient for […]