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AWS – AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Manila, Philippines
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the PLDT Vitro Makati 2 data center in Manila, Philippines. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. Read […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now provides contact records and events for external third-party calls
Amazon Connect now provides contact records and real-time contact events for calls and transfers made to external third-party phone numbers. The new contact records can be used for reporting, billing reconciliation, and analytics. Contact events can be used to create analytics dashboards to monitor and track real-time contact lifecycle activity (e.g., call connected to the […]
AWS – AWS Firewall Manager is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne)
AWS Firewall Manager is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region, bringing AWS Firewall Manager to a total of 29 AWS commercial regions, AWS GovCloud (US) regions, and all Amazon CloudFront edge locations. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 instances available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6gd and R6gd instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Jakarta). These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors, and they are built on AWS Nitro System. The Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, […]
AWS – Amazon GameLift improves FleetIQ game session placement logic
We are excited to announce updates to the Amazon GameLift FleetIQ’s ClaimGameServer operation to better handle game session placement decisions. Amazon GameLift FleetIQ optimizes the use of low-cost Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Spot Instances for cloud-based multiplayer game hosting. With Amazon GameLift FleetIQ, you can leverage your existing Amazon EC2 and Amazon EC2 […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region
Starting today, you can build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – PostgreSQL 16 Beta 1 is Now Available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 16 Beta 1 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the pre-release of PostgreSQL 16 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can deploy PostgreSQL 16 Beta 1 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database, making […]
GCP – What’s the future of DevOps? You tell us. Take the 2023 Accelerate State of DevOps survey
For the past eight years, Google Cloud’s DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team has published the Accelerate State of DevOps Report. With input from over 33,000 professionals worldwide, the annual report provides an independent view into the practices and capabilities that organizations, irrespective of their size, industry, and region, can employ to drive better performance […]
GCP – Subskribe brings full insights to its quote-to-revenue platform with embedded Looker
Subskribe helps SaaS companies keep up with modern demands by delivering a unified system for configure, price, quote (CPQ), billing, and revenue recognition. Now that it’s added comprehensive business intelligence (BI) and real-time data-exploration capabilities to its platform using Looker Embedded, Subskribe can also help SaaS providers improve decision making and drive growth with on-demand […]
GCP – Forecasting “relevant inventory” at “relevant nodes” for retailers’ success
During quarterly earnings calls, retail CxOs often talk about the impact to margins of extra shipping costs, increases in split shipments and monitoring inventory levels. Across the U.S. apparel sector, for example, earnings before interest and taxes dropped by over 30% due to accelerated demand of online business. Today’s retailers are focused on improving profit […]