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AWS – AWS announces Amazon-provided contiguous IPv6 CIDR 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 – AWS Compute Optimizer is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Region
AWS GovCloud (US) Region customers can now use AWS Compute Optimizer to reduce costs and improve performance. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Conversational AI Competency Partner’s implement high-quality chatbot solutions
We are excited to highlight AWS Conversational AI Competency Partners, who enable enterprises to implement high-quality, highly effective chatbot, virtual assistant, and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) solutions. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Storage Gateway is now available in AWS Europe (Spain) and AWS Europe (Zurich) Regions
AWS Storage Gateway expands availability to the AWS Europe (Spain) and AWS Europe (Zurich) Regions enabling customers to deploy and manage hybrid cloud storage for their on-premises workloads. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Managed Services (AMS) achieves FedRAMP High Authorization
AWS Managed Services (AMS) Accelerate has achieved FedRAMP High authorization in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions, which are operated by employees who are U.S. citizens on U.S. soil. You can now use AMS Accelerate with workloads that require FedRAMP High categorization level. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SageMaker is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
Amazon SageMaker is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. Starting today, you can build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models in the region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Personalize simplifies onboarding with data insights
We are excited to announce that Amazon Personalize now provides analysis on your data to make onboarding easier than ever. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. Amazon Personalize trains custom models for each customer using their unique data. With this launch, Amazon Personalize […]

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 […]