New Containers post by Olly Pomeroy and Vaibhav Khunger: Under the hood: Lazy Loading Container Images with Seekable OCI and AWS Fargate aws.amazon.com/blogs/contain…

Excerpt: AWS Fargate, a serverless compute engine for containerized workloads, now supports lazy loading container images that have been indexed using Seekable OCI (SOCI). Lazy loading container images with SOCI reduces the time taken to launch Amazon Elastic Container [1/2]

New AWS Partner Network post by Nick Rabinowitz, Sekar Ramasubban and Venkatesh Aravamudan: Harnessing Location Intelligence with AWS Data Exchange and Foursquare aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/har…

Excerpt: Location data is a powerful tool that provides real-time information and predictive analytics. By leveraging location intelligence, companies can make better decisions related to store design, staffing, capital investments, new product development, site [1/2]

New Management & Governance post by Brad Hein, Vincent Nicotra and Yassin Abouel Seoud: Service Quota Observability Across Regions and Accounts aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/serv…

Excerpt: Customers often need to launch workloads in new accounts and regions. You could be developing an application in a development account, and looking to launch it in a production account, following AWS multi-account best practices on separating production and [1/2]

New Networking & Content Delivery post by Harrison Holstein and Madhu Balaji: Integrating AWS Verified Access with device trust providers aws.amazon.com/blogs/network…

Excerpt: In this post, we discuss how to architect Zero Trust based remote connectivity on AWS. Specifically, we will be exploring how to integrate Verified Access with CrowdStrike, a device trust provider. This solution builds upon the Okta-based identity provider [1/2]

New AWS Partner Network post by Avdyl Haxhaj, Ján Šalata, Petr Vaculík, Phani Kumar Lingamallu, Shiva Bayati and Simona Bonková: Transforming Contact Centers with an AI-First Approach Using Amazon Connect and IBM Consulting CCM aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/tra…

Excerpt: Contact center agents operate under vast pressure to find quick customer service solutions—yet they often lack the tools to do so. The IBM Consulting Contact Center Modernization (CCM) solution with Amazon Connect is an intuitive, omnichannel cloud platform that [1/2]

New Big Data post by Ajay Vohra, Aneel Murari, Jaswanth Kumar Jonnalagadda and Parnab Basak: Automate secure access to Amazon MWAA environments using existing OpenID Connect single-sign-on authentication and authorization aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-dat…

Excerpt: Customers use Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) to run Apache Airflow at scale in the cloud. They want to use their existing login solutions developed using OpenID Connect (OIDC) providers with Amazon MWAA; this allows them to provide a [1/2]

New Big Data post by Bhupinder Chadha: Introducing field-based coloring experience for Amazon QuickSight aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-dat…

Excerpt: Color plays a crucial role in visualizations. It conveys meaning, captures attention, and enhances aesthetics. You can quickly grasp important information when key insights and data points pop with color. However, it’s important to use color judiciously to [1/2]