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AWS – Amazon Pinpoint now supports Safari push notifications
You can now use Amazon Pinpoint to send push notifications to your website users on their Mac desktop using Apple Push Notification service. Safari push notifications display your website icon and notification text that users can click to go to your website. This allows you to reach your end users right on their desktop to […]

AWS – AWS Control Tower now supports nested organizational units
We are excited to announce the support for AWS Organizations nested organizational units (OUs) in AWS Control Tower. An organization is an entity that you create to consolidate a collection of AWS accounts so that you can administer them as a single unit. Within each organization, you can create organizational units which help manage and […]

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now offers – M6g – instances for Mumbai and San Francisco Regions
Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now offers AWS Graviton2 general purpose – M6g instance family. Customers can enjoy up to 38% improvement in indexing throughput, 50% reduction in indexing latency, and 30% improvement in query performance when compared to the corresponding x86-based instances from the current generation M5. Read More for the […]

AWS – AWS Application Migration Service is now available in the Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions
AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is now available in four additional AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), and Middle East (Bahrain). Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels now offers an enhanced experience to train computer vision models more easily
Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels is an automated machine learning (AutoML) service that allows you to build custom computer vision models to detect objects and scenes specific to your business needs without the need of in-depth machine learning expertise. Starting today, we have updated the Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels console to introduce step-by-step directions on how […]

GCP – Innovators Gather in Force at Google Cloud Government and Education Summit – No Need for FOMO with On-Demand Viewing
In early November more than 27,000 innovators gathered virtually for our second annual Google Cloud Government and Education Summit. Leaders from across the globe inspired and engaged us over two days with their stories of innovation, resilience, and persistence, even in the most challenging of times and circumstances. Speakers shared how they’ve embraced technology to […]

Azure – Azure VMware Solution now generally available in the France Central Azure Region
Azure VMware Solution has now expanded availability to France Central, this update is in addition to the existing availability multiple Azure regions in US, Europe, Australia, Japan, UK, Canada, Brazil and Southeast Asia (Singapore). Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Copy data to/from Azure Data Explorer using Azure Data Factory or Synapse Analytics
Mapping Data Flows provides scale-out data transformation in the cloud in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics. With these additional connectors, you can build ETL patterns at Spark scale in a code-free design environment without ever touching the Spark compute. Azure Integration Runtimes allow you to define the Spark environment and provide a serverless […]

Azure – SFTP support for Azure Blob Storage – now in public preview
Azure Blob Storage is the only storage platform that supports SFTP over object storage natively in a serverless fashion, enabling you leverage object storage economics and features with legacy workloads that use SFTP. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Spring Cloud start and stop, bring your own persistent storage, and Service Connector
Azure Spring Cloud now lets you start and stop your applications to reduce costs, bring your own persistent storage for logs and dumps, and connect your apps with Azure services more easily using Service Connector. Read More for the details.