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AWS – Amazon EKS is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) customers can now create and manage clusters in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Prefix Lists now available in two additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can create their own Prefix Lists in two additional AWS Regions: Europe (Zurich) and Middle East (UAE) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports Amazon EMR Hive as a big query engine
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes in Amazon SageMaker Studio. Data Wrangler enables you to access data from a wide variety of popular sources (Amazon S3, Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR Presto, Snowflake) and over 40 other third-party […]
AWS – Amazon SES adds email receiving metrics for better visibility and control
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) announces the addition of two new metrics to its Email Receiving service without additional charges, providing customers with greater visibility into message processing workflows. The move comes in response to customer frustration over the limited set of metrics available, which made it difficult for customers to test their setup and […]
AWS – AWS License Manager Linux subscriptions expands region and administrator support
AWS License Manager extends support for delegated administrator to Linux subscriptions discovery and governance capabilities. Using delegated administrator, your management account can give access to another account in your organization to track Linux subscriptions on AWS. Delegated administrator gives you the flexibility to separate subscription management from billing and other central management tasks. Read More […]
AWS – Announcing Favorites feature to organize AWS Systems Manager documents and runbooks
Today, we are excited to announce Systems Manager Favorites, a quick way for customers to find and execute their most important and frequently used documents and runbooks. Documents and runbooks define the actions that Systems Manager performs on your managed instances and other AWS resources. Now, you can select up to 20 of your favorite […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches a new API for customers to access historical metrics
Amazon Connect now provides a new API to programmatically access trailing 14 days of historical agent and contact metrics data. This new API extends the capabilities of current GetMetricData API, that provides historical metrics data only for the last 24 hours, provides new metrics (e.g., number of contacts disconnected or callbacks attempted) and the ability […]
GCP – Cloud Spanner powers Kochava’s mobile analytics platform
Kochava is a real-time data company offering leading omni-channel measurement and attribution solutions for data-driven marketers and publishers. Via the Marketers Operating System™ (m/OS), Kochava delivers actionable data, providing marketers with a platform that seamlessly integrates and manages customer identity, measurement and data controls. With a unified view of all data and critical omni-channel solutions […]
GCP – Using ML to predict the weather and climate risk
Introduction All beings on this planet are affected by atmospheric phenomena we call the weather. Because of this, humans have invented all sorts of measuring tools, and luckily have loads of data from observations. All this data has been on quite a technological journey; from being collected on paper and local servers in basements, to now […]
GCP – Introducing regional placement in Dataflow
We’re excited to announce that Dataflow now supports regional placement of workers. Building upon Auto Zone placement Dataflow deploys its workers as Compute Engine resources, which are hosted in multiple locations worldwide. Since 2018, Dataflow has supported the Auto Zone feature, which uses the available zone capacity to automatically select the best single zone within […]