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More telemetry does not always mean faster answers.

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#ITOps #Cybersecurity #Automation #ITOperations #Observability

AWS Adds Email Routing and Coaching Automation to Amazon Connect -- AWSInsider New features aim to improve agent productivity and training within the cloud contact center platform.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added multi-address email selection and integrated coaching workflows to Amazon Connect to improve contact center communication and agent training.

See what is new in Amazon Connect: https://ow.ly/iBbA50YtoBk

#AWS #AmazonConnect #ContactCenter

AWS Adds AI-Powered Predictive Insights to Amazon Connect Platform -- AWSInsider New capability uses machine learning to help organizations anticipate customer needs and improve service outcomes.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added AI-powered predictive insights to Amazon Connect, using machine learning to analyze interaction data and operational metrics for more proactive customer engagement.

See how Amazon Connect is getting more proactive: https://ow.ly/Q43050YsBIr

#AWS #AmazonConnect

AWS Quick Suite Adds User Preference Controls for Personalization -- AWSInsider New settings allow users to personalize dashboard and chat views and defaults within Amazon Quick Suite

Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced user preference controls in Amazon Quick Suite, allowing users to personalize dashboards, chat agents, and display settings within its generative AI powered BI platform.

See how AWS is personalizing analytics: https://ow.ly/6I7N50YshER

#AWS #GenerativeAI

Forced Linux upgrades are a risk and cost problem.

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#Linux #OpenSource #ITOps

AWS Makes it Easier to Detect Firewall Configuration Changes -- AWSInsider Amazon now publishes AWS Network Firewall state changes to EventBridge, enabling real-time security automation that can immediately respond to firewall configuration changes, attachment modifications, and endpoint health issues.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Network Firewall now publishes key state change events to EventBridge, making it easier to automate validation, rollback, and alerting when firewall changes happen, writes Brien Posey.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/oexN50Yr9nY

#AWS #CloudSecurity #EventBridge

Happy International Women’s Day!

Today we are spotlighting women whose work helped shape modern networking and cloud infrastructure.

Swipe through to learn about a few pioneers who helped build the cloud era.

#InternationalWomensDay #WomenInTech #CloudComputing

AWS Introduces Agentic AI Capabilities for Amazon Connect in Healthcare -- AWSInsider New features aim to automate patient interactions and administrative workflows using AI-driven agents.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced Amazon Connect Health, adding agentic AI for scheduling, verification, documentation, medical coding, and patient engagement in healthcare contact centers.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/wOVO50Yq0v8

#AWS #HealthcareAI #AmazonConnect

AI-assisted development needs governance, not guesswork.

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#AI #SoftwareDevelopment

AWS Adds AI-Powered Application Analysis to Elastic Beanstalk -- AWSInsider New capability helps developers identify issues and optimize applications running on the managed platform.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added AI-powered analysis to Elastic Beanstalk to review logs, metrics, and environment health and generate troubleshooting recommendations.

See how AWS is streamlining Beanstalk diagnostics: https://ow.ly/iKKF50Yq0rg

#AWS #ElasticBeanstalk #DevOps

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#MSP #ITServices

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Policy Reaches General Availability -- AWSInsider New policy framework provides governance controls for enterprise AI agent deployments.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced GA for Policy controls in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, adding centralized governance for AI agents without changes to underlying agent code.

Read how it supports security and compliance across autonomous workflows: https://ow.ly/MKv850YoZFQ

#AWS #EnterpriseAI

Lifecycle chaos is a budget killer for Linux teams.

Join us, sponsor SUSE, and a panel of speakers on Mar. 11 for this FREE webcast on Lifecycle Sovereignty and multi-distro stability without vendor lock-in.

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#Linux #OpenSource #Infrastructure

Amazon ECS Managed Instances Now Support EC2 Capacity Reservations -- AWSInsider Integration enables more predictable compute availability for containerized workloads.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) says Amazon ECS Managed Instances now support Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservations to help assure compute availability and reduce launch failures during high demand.

See how it improves scaling resilience: https://ow.ly/UtCc50YnZbI

#AWS #ECS #DevOps

Meeting Distributed Workload Needs with EC2 Placement Groups -- AWSInsider AWS EC2 placement groups simplify the deployment of distributed workloads by automatically positioning instances according to performance, redundancy, and isolation requirements using three strategic approaches -- cluster, partition, and spread.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 placement groups use cluster, partition, and spread strategies to position instances for performance, redundancy, and isolation in distributed environments.

Read the full breakdown by Brien Posey: https://ow.ly/Wcoi50YmTnN

#AWS #EC2 #DistributedSystems

AWS Elemental Inference Now Generally Available -- AWSInsider Service enables real-time, ML-powered video analysis at scale across broadcast and streaming workflows.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released AWS Elemental Inference, embedding machine learning models for real-time object detection, metadata analysis, content moderation, and vertical video cropping within live video pipelines.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/GpoZ50YmlSJ

#AWS #MediaTech #AI

AWS Elemental MediaConvert Introduces Video Probe for Enhanced Media Analysis -- AWSInsider New feature provides deeper insight into video files to improve encoding accuracy and workflow efficiency.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced Video Probe in AWS Elemental MediaConvert, enabling pre-transcode analysis of codec, frame rate, resolution, and other technical video properties across supported regions.

Learn how it streamlines video workflows: https://ow.ly/WOhk50YmlQr

#BroadcastTech

AWS Trusted Advisor Adds Check for Unused NAT Gateways -- AWSInsider New recommendation helps customers reduce networking costs by identifying idle resources.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Trusted Advisor now identifies unused NAT Gateways by analyzing 32 days of CloudWatch metrics, helping reduce unnecessary VPC networking costs.

Learn more about spotting idle gateways before they quietly add to your bill: https://ow.ly/sShX50YlTaw

#AWS #FinOps #CloudCost

Amazon Q Introduces Generative AI-Based Artifacts to Streamline Development Workflows -- AWSInsider New capability enables teams to generate and manage project assets directly within Amazon Q.

Amazon Q now generates reusable “artifacts” like documents, plans, and code snippets in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Management Console, including prompts to ask about resources and visualize cost and billing charts.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/jZ6K50YlT3Z

#AWS #DevOps #GenerativeAI

Using Tags to Control Access to S3 Buckets -- AWSInsider Brien Posey explains how Amazon S3 Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) lets organizations manage bucket access using tags, offering a flexible alternative to traditional IAM-only permissions.

Amazon S3 Attribute Based Access Control lets you manage bucket access using tags and aws:ResourceTag conditions instead of IAM-only policies.

Brien Posey breaks down how to enable ABAC and build tag-based S3 access controls.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/PpO950YkW1B

#AWS #CloudSecurity #IAM

Forced Linux upgrades and lifecycle gaps can spike risk and costs.

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#Linux #ITOperations #Cybersecurity

Aurora DSQL Adds Native Connectors for Go, Python and Node.js -- AWSInsider New connectors aim to simplify application development and broaden language support for distributed SQL workloads.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) added native Go, Python, and Node.js connectors for Aurora DSQL to simplify IAM authentication and PostgreSQL-compatible integration, including automatically generated per-connection tokens.

Read more: https://ow.ly/yL9650YiJm2

#AWS #Databases #CloudNative

Modern cloud environments demand modern defense strategies.

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#CloudSecurity #Cybersecurity #CloudComputing

Amazon Connect Cases Now Integrated with AWS Service Quotas -- AWSInsider Update provides visibility into quota limits to help contact centers manage scale and avoid service disruptions.

Amazon Connect Cases now integrates with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Quotas, so admins can see usage limits and request quota increases in the Service Quotas console, with automatic approvals for eligible requests.

Read more: https://ow.ly/knfa50YhTMc

#AWS #Cloud #ContactCenter

AWS HealthImaging Adds New Metrics to Improve Monitoring and Performance Visibility -- AWSInsider Expanded observability tools help healthcare and life sciences teams better manage imaging workloads in the cloud.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added new CloudWatch metrics for AWS HealthImaging to improve visibility into DICOM ingestion, storage, and retrieval performance for medical imaging workloads, including petabyte-scale environments.

Read more: https://ow.ly/gPqo50YhwAA

#AWS #HealthIT #Observability

AWS Batch Adds Job Queue Share Utilization Visibility -- AWSInsider New metric helps teams better manage capacity and optimize batch workload scheduling.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Batch added job queue share utilization metrics, improving visibility into compute allocation under fair-share scheduling for better prioritization and capacity planning.

Read more: https://ow.ly/PgtW50YgXuH

#AWS #AWSBatch #Cloud

Mixed Linux estates, rising costs, and the push toward agentic AI.

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#Linux #SUSE #PlatformEngineering

General Best Practices for AWS Admins, Part 2 -- AWSInsider Brien Posey advises AWS admins to adopt infrastructure as code and an automation-first mindset, design subnets as trust boundaries, and treat cost management as an ongoing process with regular reviews of resources, budgets, and scaling rules.

Brien Posey outlines Amazon Web Services (AWS) best practices in part 2 of this series, covering infrastructure as code for standardized provisioning, subnet design as trust boundaries, and more.

Dive deeper: https://ow.ly/Gm8050YgyP5

#AWS #InfrastructureAsCode #CostOptimization

Amazon Bedrock Expands PrivateLink Support to OpenAI-Compatible API Endpoints -- AWSInsider Update enables private connectivity for OpenAI-style endpoints, strengthening network isolation for generative AI workloads.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded Amazon Bedrock PrivateLink support to OpenAI-compatible API endpoints, enabling private network access for enterprise AI deployments and simplifying integration into private cloud architectures.

Read more: https://ow.ly/b9TQ50YgyLt

#Bedrock #CloudSecurity

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