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AWS – AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for CloudWatch Log Insights
AWS customers can now access CloudWatch Log Insights from within the AWS Console Mobile App to search and analyze log data in CloudWatch Logs while on the go. AWS customers can perform queries to more efficiently and effectively respond to operational issues. If an issue occurs, AWS customers can use CloudWatch Log Insights to identify […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches profile explorer for unified customer views
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now offers profile explorer, a new capability that enables organizations to access a unified, customized view of Amazon Connect Customer Profiles. This intuitive interface enables organizations to better understand and engage with their customers across all touchpoints, enhancing the existing Amazon Connect Customer Profiles service by providing real-time user access to […]
AWS – Amazon EFS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) for both EFS APIs and mount targets, enabling customers to manage and mount file systems using IPv4, IPv6, or dual-stack clients. This launch helps customers meet IPv6 compliance requirements and eliminates the need for complex infrastructure to handle IPv6 to IPv4 address translation. […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch agent adds support for EBS detailed performance statistics
Amazon CloudWatch agent now supports collecting detailed performance statistics for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes attached to Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon EKS nodes. The CloudWatch agent can be configured to collect NVMe-based metrics including queue depth, number of operations, bytes sent and received, and time spent on read and write I/O operations, making […]
AWS – Amazon Connect introduces enhanced calculated attributes
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now offers enhanced calculated attributes with timestamp controls, historical data backfill, and improved limits to help businesses transform customer data into actionable insights. Customers now can specify timestamps on their data, including future-dated events, and process historical data information with increased limits. Amazon Connect Customer Profiles offers calculated attributes that transform […]
GCP – Ulta Beauty redefines beauty retail with BigQuery
In the dynamic world of beauty retail, staying ahead requires more than just the hottest trends — it demands agility, data-driven insights, and seamless customer experiences. Ulta Beauty, a leader in the beauty and wellness industry, understands this. Building on the success of modernizing its e-commerce platform with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Ulta Beauty partnered […]
AWS – AWS HealthLake is now available in the AWS Europe (Ireland) Region
Starting today, European healthcare and life sciences customers can use AWS HealthLake to store, transform, and analyze their health data in FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources) standards while maintaining data residency within the EU. AWS HealthLake is a fully managed FHIR storage, transactional, and analytics service. Customers can normalize and store health data from disparate […]
AWS – Announcing open sourcing pgactive: active-active replication extension for PostgreSQL
Today, AWS announces the open sourcing of pgactive, a PostgreSQL extension for active-active replication. pgactive lets you use asynchronous active-active replication for streaming data between database instances to provide additional resiliency and flexibility in moving data between database instances, including writers located in different regions. This helps maintain availability for operations like switching write traffic […]
GCP – Unlock 66% better price-performance with new M4 VMs for memory-intensive workloads
Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of the memory-optimized machine series: Compute Engine M4, our most performant memory-optimized VM with under 6TB of memory. The M4 family is designed for workloads like SAP HANA, SQL Server, and in-memory analytics that benefit from higher memory-to-core ratio. The M4 is based on Intel’s latest 5th […]
GCP – Simplify your streaming pipelines with new Pub/Sub Single Message Transforms
Today, we’re introducing Pub/Sub Single Message Transforms (SMTs) to make it easy to perform simple data transformations right within Pub/Sub itself. This comes at a time when businesses are increasingly reliant on streaming data to derive real-time insights, understand evolving customer trends, and ultimately make critical decisions that impact their bottom line and strategic direction. […]