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Azure – Public preview refresh: Azure IoT Central REST API new and updated endpoints
IoT Central REST API now supports a series of new API endpoints that you can access through the 1.1-preview endpoint. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now create IPv6-only subnets and EC2 instances
Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) allows you to create IPv6-only subnets in your dual-stack VPCs and launch EC2 instances built on Nitro System in these subnets. The launch of IPv6-only subnets allows customers to scale their deployments on AWS by not requiring any IPv4 addressing in the subnet. With a /64 IPv6 CIDR assignment […]

AWS – Now prepare data and build models using TensorFlow 2.6 and PyTorch 1.8 in Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks
Amazon SageMaker Studio is the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML). With a single click, data scientists and developers can quickly spin up SageMaker Studio Notebooks to interactively explore datasets and build ML models. The notebooks come pre-configured with deep learning environments for AWS-optimized TensorFlow and PyTorch to quickly get started […]

AWS – New features for AWS IoT Core Device Advisor
AWS IoT Core Device Advisor now supports the capability to run multiple test suites at the same time. Device Developers can use this capability to complete testing faster by testing multiple devices simultaneously. Developers can also test their devices more comprehensively by using new MQTT test cases such as a test to validate the device behavior […]

AWS – AWS Amplify expands its Notifications category to include in-app messaging (Developer Preview)
AWS Amplify is launching a developer preview of its expanded Notifications category for JavaScript. Powered by Amazon Pinpoint, this expansion allows developers to instrument in-app messaging to drive engagement and monetization. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Single Sign-On now provides one-click login to Amazon EC2 instances running Microsoft Windows
You can now enable one-click single sign-on to your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances running Microsoft Windows (Amazon EC2 Windows Instances) with AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO). You can connect your instances with users from AWS SSO or any AWS SSO supported identity provider, such as Okta, Ping, and OneLogin. This makes it easy for you […]

AWS – Amazon Chime SDK meetings live transcription now supports content identification and custom language models
Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. With live transcriptions, developers can include subtitles in meetings and create transcripts using Amazon Transcribe or Amazon Transcribe Medical. Using the service-side integration between Amazon Chime SDK and your Amazon Transcribe account, application builders can now help identify […]

Azure – General availability of custom OpenID providers in App Service and Azure Functions
Support for authenticating clients of App Service and Azure Functions using OpenID Connect is now generally available. Read More for the details.

AWS – New Multi-AZ deployment option for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and for MySQL; increased read capacity, lower and more consistent write transaction latency, and shorter failover time (Preview)
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL and for PostgreSQL now supports a new Multi-AZ deployment option with one primary and two readable standby database instances. This deployment option optimizes write transactions and is ideal when your workloads require additional read capacity, lower write transaction latency, more resilience from network jitter (which impacts the […]
AWS – Application Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer end-to-end IPv6 support
Application Load Balancers and Network Load Balancers now support end-to-end connectivity with Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). Clients can now connect to application and network load balancers and access backend applications over IPv6. Read More for the details.