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GCP – Keeping track of shipments minute by minute: How Mercado Libre uses real-time analytics for on-time delivery
Iteration and innovation fuel the data-driven culture at Mercado Libre. In our first post, we presented our continuous intelligence approach, which leverages BigQuery and Looker to create a data ecosystem on which people can build their own models and processes. Using this framework, the Shipping Operations team was able to build a new solution that […]

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now includes advanced log and application analytics
Amazon OpenSearch Service, with the availability of OpenSearch 1.3., now gives customers the ability to organize their logs, traces and visualizations in an application-centric view. Customers can also benefit from enhanced log monitoring support with live tailing of logs, the ability to see surrounding log data, and the ability to do powerful ad-hoc analysis of […]

Azure – General availability: Next hop IP support for Route Server
Peer Route Server with network virtual appliances (NVAs) deployed behind an Azure Internal Load Balancer (ILB). Read More for the details.

AWS – Bottlerocket is now available in Amazon Web Services China Regions
Bottlerocket, a Linux-based operating system designed to run container workloads, is now available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: US West 3 price adjustment
Pricing adjustment to bring value to our Azure customers in western US regions. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: AMD-based confidential VMs for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Announcing the public preview of confidential node pools on AKS with AMD SEV-SNP confidential VMs. Read More for the details.

GCP – Introducing Cloud Analytics by MITRE Engenuity Center in collaboration with Google Cloud
The cybersecurity industry is faced with the tremendous challenge of analyzing growing volumes of security data in a dynamic threat landscape with evolving adversary behaviors. Today’s security data is heterogeneous, including logs and alerts, and often comes from more than one cloud platform. In order to better analyze that data, we’re excited to announce the […]

AWS – AWS Application Migration Service now supports automated tagging for MAP 2.0 credits
AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) now supports automatically tagging your migrated resources for AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) 2.0 credits for general workloads. AWS Application Migration Service allows you to quickly migrate and modernize applications on AWS. MAP 2.0 is a comprehensive program that offers tools, services, guidance, training, and incentives to accelerate cloud migration […]

AWS – AWS Support launches a new AWS Support Center console domain
AWS Support launches a new AWS Support Center console URL https://support.console.aws.amazon.com/. Using this new URL ensures you can always contact AWS Support via the AWS Support Center Console, which is built using the latest architecture standards for high availability and region redundancy. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect launches historical actuals in the forecasting UI
Amazon Connect now enables contact center managers to view historical contact volumes and average handling time (AHT) in the forecasting UI. This new feature is part of Amazon Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling (preview) that helps contact center managers predict contact volumes and AHT, determine optimal staffing levels, and plan agent schedules to ensure […]