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AWS – AWS Lambda Function URLs: built-in HTTPS endpoints for your Lambda functions
AWS Lambda is announcing Lambda Function URLs, a new feature that makes it easier to invoke functions through an HTTPS endpoint as a built-in capability of the AWS Lambda service. You can add Function URLs to new and existing functions in a single click from the console, or in a couple of lines using AWS CloudFormation […]
AWS – Amazon Athena adds support for querying Amazon Ion data
Amazon Athena now supports data stored in Amazon Ion format, a richly-typed, self-describing format developed and open-sourced by Amazon. Amazon Ion provides interchangeable binary and text formats which combine the ease of use of text with the efficiency of binary encoding. The Ion format is currently used by internal Amazon teams, by AWS services such as Amazon […]
AWS – Announcing Unified Settings in the AWS Management Console
We are excited to launch Unified Settings in the AWS Management Console. With Unified Settings, settings will persist across devices, browsers, and services. At launch, Unified Settings will support settings called default language, default Region, and favorite service display. Default language displays your preferred language across the Management Console, default Region sets the AWS Region […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall achieves FedRAMP Moderate compliance
AWS Network Firewall is now authorized as FedRAMP Moderate in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California) and US West (Oregon). You can now use AWS Network Firewall to protect and control access to and from your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) in these regions for workloads […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights (General Availability)
Metrics Insights is a new feature from Amazon CloudWatch that is now generally available. As a fast, flexible, SQL based query engine, Metrics Insights enables developers, operators, systems engineers, and cloud solutions architects to identify trends and patterns across millions of operational metrics in real time and helps you use these insights to reduce time to […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches dynamic voice prompt playback from Amazon S3
Amazon Connect now supports playing recorded voice prompts directly from your Amazon S3 bucket, making it easy to create personalized customer experiences in your automated voice systems. Voice prompts are audio files played during customer interactions, such as playing a welcome greeting, requesting information from your customers, or guiding a customer through their desired transaction. […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now includes an observability interface and expands log analytics
Amazon OpenSearch Service now includes an observability interface and log monitoring features, which provide developers and DevOps engineers with the insights they need to diagnose performance issues faster and reduce application downtime. Read More for the details.
GCP – Bringing together the best of both sides of BI with Looker and Data Studio
In today’s data world, companies have to consider many scenarios in order to deliver insights to users in a way that makes sense to them. On one hand, they must deliver trusted, governed reporting to inform mission-critical business functions. But on the other hand, they must enable a broad population to answer questions on their […]
Azure – Generally available: Support for Private Link in Azure IoT Central
Enhance your security posture by privately connecting devices to Azure IoT Central via private endpoint, eliminating exposure to the public internet. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Azure storage table access using Azure Active Directory
Accessing Azure storage table using Azure AD for authentication and Azure RBAC for authorization provides superior security over using shared key for access. Read More for the details.