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AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics adds support for custom canary groups with group-level availability metrics
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics, an outside-in monitoring capability to continually verify your customer experience even when you don’t have any customer traffic on your applications, introduced a new capability to create custom groups of canaries. By creating a group of canaries, you can track success/failure status at a group or application level yet with an easy drill […]

AWS – Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.23
You can now use Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro to run Kubernetes version 1.23. Highlights of Kubernetes version 1.23 release include graduation of PodSecurity and Ephemeral containers to beta, and graduation of HorizontalPodAutoscaler to GA. Additionally, Kubernetes version 1.23 turns on CSI migration feature for Amazon EBS by default. You can find more details about Kubernetes […]

AWS – Amazon Cognito enables native support for AWS WAF
You can now enable AWS WAF protections for Amazon Cognito, making it even easier to protect Amazon Cognito user pools and hosted UI from common web exploits. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon AppFlow now supports Zendesk Chat and Zendesk Sell as sources
Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that helps customers to securely transfer data between AWS services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications in just a few clicks, now supports Zendesk Chat and Zendesk Sell as sources. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Location Service now supports circular geofences
Amazon Location Service now supports circular geofences, allowing developers to draw virtual boundaries by specifying a point and a radius on a map. Developers can use Amazon Location geofencing to initiate actions when devices enter or leave a specific area of interest by evaluating positions against tens of thousands of geofences in near-real time. Read More […]

AWS – Introducing the AWS Supply Chain Competency Partner Program
We are excited to announce the new AWS Supply Chain Competency, featuring top AWS Partners who provide cloud-native supply chain solutions on AWS and professional services for companies of every size and segment to enhance their responsiveness to customers, increase the speed of decision making and operation through automation and AI, strengthen their resilience to […]

AWS – Amazon EventBridge now supports receiving events from GitHub, Stripe and Twilio using Webhooks
Amazon EventBridge now supports integrations with GitHub, Stripe, and Twilio via webhooks using Quicks Starts. You can subscribe to events from these SaaS applications and receive them on an Amazon EventBridge event bus for further processing. With Quick Starts, you can use AWS CloudFormation templates to create HTTP endpoints for your event bus that are […]

AWS – Amazon AppFlow now supports data transfers from SAP applications to AWS Services using SAP Operational Data Provisioning (ODP)
Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that helps customers to securely transfer data between AWS services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications in just a few clicks, now supports data transfers from SAP applications to AWS Services using SAP Operational Data Provisioning (ODP) framework. With this launch AppFlow customers can use the AppFlow SAP OData connector […]

AWS – AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for Cost Explorer service
AWS Console Mobile Application users can now use AWS Cost Explorer on both the iOS and Android applications. The Console Mobile Application provides a secure on-the-go solution to visualize, understand, and manage AWS costs and usage over time. Customers can analyze total costs and usage across all regions and services for preceding eight weeks, identify […]
AWS – Application Insights adds AppRegistry support and faster problem reporting
AWS has further enhanced the monitoring set up experience through Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights’ integration with AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry. With this feature, you can now easily select a registered AWS application or register a new one with AppRegistry directly from Application Insights and automatically set up monitoring for the newly registered applications. Registered applications […]