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GCP – Introducing Spresso: A new solution to balance profit and conversion
When it comes to pricing strategy, balancing profit and conversion has long been a challenge for retailers, and one compounded by today’s rapidly changing commerce landscape. Macroeconomic factors such as rising costs of goods, fluctuating costs of shipping, changing consumer demand, and inflation make keeping up with pricing decisions nearly impossible. These factors, combined with […]
GCP – How The Home Depot gets a single pane of glass for metrics across 2,200 stores
“Are we making it easier for customers to buy hammers or are we stuck on toil?” At The Home Depot, part of SRE’s responsibility is to keep our developers focused on building the technologies that make it easier for our customers to buy home improvement goods and services. So we like to use the hammer […]
GCP – Better together: Looker connector for Looker Studio now generally available
Today’s leading organizations want to ensure their business users get fast access to data with real-time governed metrics, so they can make better business decisions. Last April, we announced our unified BI experience, bringing together both self-serve and governed BI. Now, we are making our Looker connector to Looker Studio generally available, enabling you to […]
GCP – These retailers have one thing in common
They run containers on Google Cloud. Why is that important and why should you care? Containers are at the heart of modern applications. According to the 2022 State of DevOps report, containers have been the number one deployment target for primary services and applications for the past two years, and adoption continues to accelerate rapidly. […]
AWS – Announcing Porting Advisor for Graviton
AWS announces the general availability of Porting Advisor for Graviton. The Porting Advisor for Graviton is an open-source command line tool that analyzes source code and generates a report highlighting missing and outdated libraries and code constructs that may require modification along with recommendations for alternatives. It accelerates your transition to AWS Graviton-based instances by […]
AWS – Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) now manages IP Addresses in your network outside your AWS Organization
Amazon VPC IP address manager (IPAM) now lets you manage IP addresses in accounts outside of your AWS Organization using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM). This simplifies your IP management workflows (e.g., plan, track, and monitor) by enabling you to use a single IPAM across all your AWS accounts. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches data bars for tables
Amazon QuickSight now supports data bars for tables. Data bars are essentially bar charts displayed for a given column, where the bar length specifies the magnitude of the cell value relative to the range of values in the same column. Data bars make it easier to read and compare values and quickly spot outliers. You […]
AWS – Increased field limits and performance improvements for Pivot table in Amazon QuickSight
Amazon QuickSight pivot tables now support more data than ever before with new the field limits, unlocking advance use cases. The value field well limits have been increased from 20 to 40, and Rows and Columns have been increased from 20 each to a combined limit of 40. For example, if the user has 34 […]
AWS – AWS announces Amazon provided contiguous IPv6 CIDRs blocks
AWS announces the general availability of Amazon provided IPv6 contiguous Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) blocks with Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM). Within IPAM, customers can create IPv6 publicly scoped pools and provision with BYOIP CIDR blocks. Now, customers can provision Amazon provided IPv6 CIDR blocks from /52 up to /40 in size into separate pools […]
AWS – Announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Lagos, Lima, and Querétaro
AWS Local Zones are now available in three new metro areas—Lagos, Lima, and Querétaro. You can now use these AWS Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing. Read More for the details.