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AWS – Amazon QuickSight is now available in Stockholm and Paris Regions
Amazon QuickSight is now available in Stockholm and Paris regions. New accounts are able to sign up for QuickSight with Stockholm or Paris as their primary region, making SPICE capacity available in the region and ensuring proximity to AWS and on-premises data sources. Existing users can switch regions with the region switcher and create SPICE […]

AWS – Amazon Location Service now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), Europe (London), and South America (São Paulo)
Amazon Location Service expands support to four more regions, Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), Europe (London), and South America (Sao Paulo). Developers in these regions can easily add maps, search for addresses and points of interest, calculate routes, track their assets, and geofence regions of interest, while experiencing the lowest latency response. By using local […]

AWS – Announcing Open Data Maps for Amazon Location Service (Preview)
Amazon Location Service adds a new data option to the Maps feature, Open Data, based on data from OpenStreetMap (OSM), a geospatial data source supported by a global community. Developers can now easily access reliable and up-to-date OSM data with no upfront investment or specialized geospatial knowledge. In addition to the high-quality data provider options […]

AWS – AWS Pricing Calculator supports bulk estimation of Amazon EC2 instances
The AWS Pricing Calculator now supports the ability to bulk estimate costs for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Dedicated hosts and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes using a structured Excel template. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Marketplace adds new functionality to notify sellers and customers when a private offer is created
Today, AWS Marketplace launched automated emails to communicate relevant details to buyers and sellers once a private offer is successfully created and available for subscription. With this launch, buyers can now directly receive a private offer deep link from a seller, allowing them to promptly review and accept a private offer. ISVs and channel partners […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 Calculator supports dedicated instance pricing
The AWS Pricing Calculator now offers a redesigned user interface that allows you to generate price estimates for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances in the shared tenancy model, the dedicated tenancy model, and Amazon EC2 dedicated hosts. The calculator makes it easier for you to switch among the three tenancy options with a […]

AWS – Introducing concurrent account provisioning operations for AWS Control Tower
We are excited to announce support for concurrent account factory actions in AWS Control Tower, allowing you to create, update, or enroll up to five accounts at a time. AWS Control Tower account factory makes it easy for you to provision accounts and automate deployment of AWS resources, roles and policies within those accounts to […]

GCP – How to develop and test your Cloud Functions locally
Developing code for serverless platforms requires a different approach to your development flow. Since the platform provides and maintains the entire stack, from compute infrastructure up to the function handler, your code runs in a fully managed and abstracted environment. This can make it time consuming and inefficient to debug your code by deploying and […]

AWS – AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now supports percentage-based thresholds
Starting today, customers of AWS Cost Anomaly Detection will be able to define percentage-based thresholds when configuring their alerting preferences. AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is a cost management service that leverages advanced machine learning to identify anomalous spend and root causes, so customers can quickly take action to avoid runaway spend and bill shocks. The percentage-based […]
AWS – Amazon AppFlow now supports Microsoft SharePoint Online as a source
Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that helps customers securely transfer data between AWS services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, now supports Microsoft SharePoint Online as a source. With this launch, you can now transfer your unstructured data from SharePoint Online to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) in just a few clicks. This SharePoint Online integration […]