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AWS – NICE DCV renames to Amazon DCV and releases version 2024.0 with support for Ubuntu 24.04
Amazon announces DCV version 2024.0. In this latest release, NICE DCV has been renamed to Amazon DCV. The new DCV version introduces several enhancements, including support for Ubuntu 24.04 and enabling the QUIC UDP protocol by default. Amazon DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol designed to help customers securely access remote desktop or application […]
AWS – AWS Incident Detection and Response now available in Japanese
Starting today, AWS Incident Detection and Response supports incident engagement in Japanese language. AWS Incident Detection and Response offers AWS Enterprise Support customers proactive engagement and incident management for critical workloads. With AWS Incident Detection and Response, AWS Incident Management Engineers (IMEs) are available 24/7 to detect incidents and engage with you within five minutes […]
AWS – Amazon S3 adds Service Quotas support for S3 general purpose buckets
You can now manage your Amazon S3 general purpose bucket quotas in Service Quotas. Using Service Quotas, you can view the total number of buckets in an AWS account, compare that number to your bucket quota, and request a service quota increase. You can get started using the Amazon S3 page on the Service Quotas […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Serverless introduces Job Run Concurrency and Queuing controls
Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple for data engineers and data scientists to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Today, we are excited to announce job run admission control on Amazon EMR Serverless with support for job run concurrency […]
AWS – AWS Chatbot adds support to centrally manage access to AWS accounts from Slack and Microsoft Teams with AWS Organizations
AWS announces general availability of AWS Organizations support in AWS Chatbot. AWS customers can now centrally govern access to their accounts from Slack and Microsoft Teams with AWS Organizations. This launch introduces chatbot management policy type in AWS Organizations to control access to your organization’s accounts from chat channels. Using Service Control Policies (SCPs), customers […]
AWS – Amazon MSK APIs now supports AWS PrivateLink
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) APIs now come with AWS PrivateLink support, allowing you to invoke Amazon MSK APIs from within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without traversing the public internet. By default, all communication between your Apache Kafka clients and your Amazon MSK provisioned clusters is private, and your data […]
AWS – Amazon Data Firehose delivers data streams into Apache Iceberg format tables in Amazon S3
Amazon Data Firehose (Firehose) can now deliver data streams into Apache Iceberg tables in Amazon S3. Firehose enables customers to acquire, transform, and deliver data streams into Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, OpenSearch, Splunk, Snowflake, and other destinations for analytics. With this new feature, Firehose integrates with Apache Iceberg, so customers can deliver data streams directly […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches the ability to initiate outbound SMS contacts
Amazon Connect now supports the ability to initiate outbound SMS contacts, enabling you to help increase customer satisfaction by engaging your customers on their preferred communication channel. You can now deliver proactive SMS experiences for scenarios such as post-contact surveys, appointment reminders, and service updates, allowing customers to respond at their convenience. Additionally you can […]
GCP – The Google for Startups Cloud Program fuels more AI innovation
Startups are building the future of AI models, infrastructure, and applications on Google Cloud. These fast-growing AI startups want to be able to accelerate their product development, ensure capacity, and scale cost-effectively. And they can with many of our unique offerings: a broad choice of Google-built, open, and partner models; our Vertex AI platform; access […]
GCP – Understand your Cloud Storage footprint with AI-powered queries and insights
Google Cloud Storage is at the core of many customers’ cloud deployment because of its simplicity, affordability and near-infinite scale. But managing millions or billions of objects across numerous projects and with hundreds of developers can be complex, often requiring a team of analysts manually analyzing data for insights. Earlier this year, we introduced the […]