The AWS Region in Africa that Jeff promised you in 2018 is now open. The official name is Africa (Cape Town) and the API name is af-south-1. You can start using this new Region today to deploy workloads and store your data in South Africa. The addition of this new Region enables all organizations to…
The popularity of the DevOps movement is gaining new heights in the world of computing. As a result, the popularity of DevOps tools such as Jenkins is also increasing considerably. With great excitement and pleasure, we announce the launch of our new Certified Jenkins Engineer online course. When you can score a certification that shows…
Starting today, customers can interrupt a Lex chatbot in mid-sentence to quickly provide a voice input without waiting for it to finish speaking. Amazon Lex chatbots can be used in Amazon Connect flows to provide conversational interactions using the same machine learning technologies like Alexa, enabling companies to offer automated self-service to their customers using…
Editor’s note: While this topic isn’t entirely security-specific, Trend Micro leader William Malik, has career expertise on the trending topic and shared his perspective. —— There was a provocative report recently that the Governor of New Jersey told reporters that the state of New Jersey needed COBOL programmers. The reason was that the number of…
We are excited to announce that customers can now receive EC2 rightsizing recommendations powered by the AWS Compute Optimizer in AWS Cost Explorer. With today’s launch, Cost Explorer customers can get Amazon EC2 rightsizing recommendations across EC2 instance families, in addition to existing support for recommendations within the same EC2 instance family. The same launch…