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Azure – Public preview: Private link support in Azure Application Gateway
Learn how private link support for Application Gateway drives more secured network access. Read More for the details.

GCP – Announcing general availability of reCAPTCHA Enterprise password leak detection
As long as passwords remain an incredibly common form of account authentication, password reuse attacks—which take advantage of people reusing the same password across multiple services—will be one of the most common ways for malicious hackers to hijack user accounts. Password reuse is such a serious problem that more than 52% of users admitted to […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 13.7, 12.11, 11.16, and 10.21 versions, and updated extensions
Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database by the open source community, we have updated Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition to support PostgreSQL 13.7, 12.11, 11.16, and 10.21. These releases contain bug fixes and improvements by the PostgreSQL community. Refer to the Aurora version policy to help you to decide how often to upgrade […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL supports LO module
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports the Large Objects (LO) module. The LO module provides support for managing Large Objects (also called LOs or BLOBs). Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas accelerates onboarding with new interactive product tours and sample datasets
Amazon SageMaker Canvas accelerates onboarding with new interactive product tours and sample datasets for different use cases. Amazon SageMaker Canvas is a visual point-and-click interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate machine learning (ML) models for insights and predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience or having to write a […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible edition now supports zero-downtime patching
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible edition now supports zero-downtime patching (ZDP). With ZDP, customers can upgrade to a new PostgreSQL version and apply patches to their Aurora cluster without any downtime. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling, now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS region
Amazon Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling (preview) are now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS region. Machine-learning powered capabilities make it easier for contact center managers to help predict contact volumes and average handle time with high accuracy, determine ideal staffing levels, and optimize agent schedules to ensure they have the right agents […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Experiments now supports common chart types to visualize model training results
SageMaker Experiments now supports granular metrics and graphs to help you better understand results from training jobs performed on SageMaker. Amazon SageMaker Experiments is a capability of Amazon SageMaker that lets you organize, track, compare and evaluate machine learning (ML) experiments. With this launch, you can now view precision and recall (PR) curves, receiver operating […]

AWS – Amazon AppFlow now supports Salesforce Marketing Cloud as a source
Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that helps customers securely transfer data between AWS services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications in just a few clicks, now supports Salesforce Marketing Cloud as a source. Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a leading marketing automation platform for B2B and B2C customers that helps companies deliver relevant, personalized journeys across […]
GCP – Introducing the executeSelect client library method and how to use it
The BigQuery Java client library makes it easier to access BigQuery APIs using Java. Since its inception in 2016, numerous features and improvements have been added to the client library to enable BigQuery developers and practitioners. Most notably, a new Connection interface was recently introduced in the Java client library. It aims to improve the […]