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AWS – AWS X-Ray is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS X-Ray in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. X-Ray helps developers analyze and debug distributed production applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture. With X-Ray, you can understand how your application and its underlying services are performing to identify and troubleshoot the root cause of […]

GCP – Minimalizing the mainframe
Minimalism —The concept, which involves freeing from clutter and, to put it colloquially, “stuff,”. Application modernization can really take a leaf out of the minimalism concept. Business applications have been developed for many decades in many languages and platforms. ‘Change being the only constant’ – these applications underwent many changes to support constantly changing business […]

GCP – Tick data analytics performance in Google Cloud improves up to 18x in latest STAC benchmark
The Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC®), an organization that improves technology discovery and assessment in the finance industry through dialog and research, recently audited the STAC-M3™ benchmark suite on Google Cloud (SUT ID KDB211210). These enterprise tick-analytics benchmarks assess the ability of a solution stack such as database software, servers, and storage, to perform a […]

Azure – Public preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCsv3 in Australia, Japan, US, and Asia
Confidential computing DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series virtual machines (VMs) are in public preview in Australia East, Japan East, South Central US, and Southeast Asia. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Connect now displays metrics within the schedule management user experience
Amazon Connect now displays scheduling metrics within the schedule management user experience to help contact center managers efficiently manage their agent’s schedules. Managers can quickly see and take action on key metrics that drive business outcomes, such as the difference between forecasted agent capacity needed and the number of agents scheduled for each 15 or […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports additional M5 and R5 instances for interactive data preparation
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, the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for ML. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and complete each step of the […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 X2idn and X2iedn instances are now available in more regions and bare metal sizes
Starting today, Amazon EC2 X2idn and X2iedn are available in additional regions and bare metal sizes. X2idn instances are now available in US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). X2iedn instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). X2idn and X2iedn are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon […]

AWS – Amazon Chime SDK messaging features are now available in the Europe (Frankfurt) AWS Region
Starting today, Amazon Chime SDK messaging is generally available in the Europe (Frankfurt) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 M6a and C6a instances now available in additional regions
Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M6a instances are now available in US East (Ohio) and Europe (Frankfurt). Additionally, compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C6a instances are now available in US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Europe (Frankfurt). M6a and C6a instances are powered by 3rd generation AMD EPYC (code named Milan) processors with an all-core […]
Azure – Update your IoT Edge devices on Raspberry Pi OS Stretch
Transition to using Bullseye to continue receiving patches. Read More for the details.