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GCP – Long-term data protection with Persistent Disk Archive Snapshots
Many enterprises need data backups with long-term retention – for months or years – to help support requirements for compliance, audit, or disaster recovery. For example, a workload that generates receipt data might need to keep snapshots of this data for several years, even if the data might never be retrieved or retrieved only rarely. […]
GCP – Google + Mandiant: Transforming Security Operations and Incident Response
Over the past two decades, Google has innovated to build some of the largest and most secure computing systems in the world. This scale requires us to deliver pioneering approaches to cloud security, which we pass on to our Google Cloud customers. We are committed to solving hard security problems like only Google can, as […]
GCP – Thank you Partners for three years of growth and winning together
Congratulations to our fast growing ecosystem of global partners for three years of commitment to Partner Advantage, underscored by great collaboration, high energy, innovative ideas, and transformative impact. Together we’ve leveraged our program to drive growth and customer satisfaction. Year to date, there has been more than a 140% year-over-year increase in experts at our […]
AWS – Announcing the composite slot type for Amazon Lex
Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build sophisticated, natural language, conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and IVR systems. Today, Amazon Lex introduces the composite slot type. A slot is used to capture user input and provide the bot […]
AWS – AWS Firewall Manager adds support for AWS WAF custom requests and responses
AWS Firewall Manager now enables you to configure AWS WAF to add custom web requests and responses. Read More for the details.
AWS – Applications using Amazon SNS to send SMS can now be hosted in four new regions
Customers that use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) can now host their applications in Europe (Milan), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Osaka), and AWS GovCloud (US-East) regions, and send text messages (SMS) to consumers in more than 200 countries and territories. Using Amazon SNS, customers can send a message directly to one phone number, or […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL supports new minor version 8.0.30
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor version 8.0.30. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and, to benefit from the numerous fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community. Read More for the […]
AWS – Amazon Personalize increases limits for all customers, simplifying large scale deployments
We are excited to announce that Amazon Personalize is increasing service limits and quotas for existing and new customers, making it easier to deploy Personalize at scale. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. Prior to this launch, limits on the use of certain […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink supports three new container level metrics and improved CloudFormation support
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink now publishes three new container-level metrics to Amazon CloudWatch: CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization, and Disk Utilization of Flink Task Managers. Task Managers are the worker nodes of a Flink application that perform the data processing. These new metrics provide enhanced visibility to Task Manager resource usage and can be […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker now supports deploying large models through configurable volume size and timeout quotas
Amazon SageMaker enables customers to deploy ML models to make predictions (also known as inference) for any use case. You can now deploy large models (up to 500GB) for inference on Amazon SageMaker’s Real-time and Asynchronous Inference options by configuring the maximum EBS volume size and timeout quotas. This launch enables customers to leverage SageMaker’s […]