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AWS – Amazon Personalize now supports starting and stopping recommenders
Amazon Personalize now gives you more control over your resources by allowing you to stop and start recommenders. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. A recommender is a resource that is optimized for specific use cases, such as “Frequently bought together” for […]

Azure – Generally available: Rehydrate an archived blob to a different storage account
Segregate your backup data in different storage accounts with Archive across-accounts copy. Read More for the details.

AWS – Introducing Migration Hub Orchestrator, a new migration orchestration feature in AWS Migration Hub
AWS Migration Hub now helps you orchestrate the migration of applications to AWS with the new Migration Hub Orchestrator feature. The scope of large migration projects generally involves selecting migration tools, step-by-step planning, and tracking the migration process across different tools and teams. Migration Hub Orchestrator provides predefined and customizable workflow templates that offer a […]

GCP – Build Voice AI into your apps with our top 3 Speech API codelabs
With voice-controlled touchpoints becoming more and more the norm in human-computer interactions, our Speech-to-Text (STT) API is a great option for developers looking to build voice into their applications. The API processes over 1 billion spoken minutes of speech each month, enough to transcribe all Presidential inauguration speeches in U.S. history over 1 million times. […]

AWS – AWS Announces General Availability of openCypher support for Amazon Neptune
Today, AWS announces the general availability of openCypher query language support with Amazon Neptune. Customers can now use openCypher with Amazon Neptune, giving them more choices to build or migrate graph applications to a highly available, secure, and fully managed graph database. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Relational Database Service now supports Multi-AZ deployments on AWS Outposts for High Availability
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports highly available configurations with Multi-AZ deployments for PostgreSQL and for MySQL on AWS Outposts in all commercial regions. Amazon RDS Multi-AZ on Outposts deployments provide enhanced availability and durability for RDS database (DB) instances, making them a natural fit for production database workloads. When you provision a Multi-AZ […]

AWS – AWS Key Management Service introduces new HMAC API
AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) lets you create KMS keys that can be used to generate and verify Hash-Based Message Authentication Code (HMACs). HMACs are a powerful cryptographic building block that incorporates secret key material within a hash function to create a unique keyed message authentication code. HMAC KMS keys can only be generated and […]

AWS – AWS Step Functions expands support for over 20 new AWS SDK integrations
AWS Step Functions expands integration with the AWS SDK by expanding support for over 20 new AWS SDK integrations and over 1000 new AWS API actions. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Transit Gateway is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
AWS Transit Gateway is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Region along with support for AWS Direct Connect. AWS Transit Gateway enables customers to connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) and their on-premises networks using a single gateway. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Security Hub launches cross-Region security scores and compliance statuses
AWS Security Hub has released support for cross-Region security scores and compliance statuses to enable a more complete view of your security posture across all of your accounts and Regions. Last year, Security Hub added support for cross-Region aggregation of findings. This release extends Security Hub’s capabilities to now also support cross-Region security scores and […]