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AWS – AWS Identity and Access Management now makes it more efficient to troubleshoot access denied errors in AWS
To help you quickly troubleshoot your permissions in Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now includes the policy type that’s responsible for the denied permissions in access denied error messages. Amazon Sagemaker, AWS CodeCommit and AWS Secrets Manager are among the first AWS services that now offer this additional context, with other […]

AWS – Bottlerocket is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Bottlerocket, a Linux-based operating system designed to run container workloads is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – The dashboard feature is now generally available in AWS Audit Manager
AWS Audit Manager now offers a dashboard to simplify your audit preparations with at-a-glance views of your evidence collection status per control. You can instantly track the progress of your audit assessments relative to common control domains. These control domains are general categories of controls, not specific to any one framework that allow customers to […]

AWS – Amazon Interactive Video Service adds high resolution metrics for monitoring stream health
With Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) you can now monitor the health of your live stream inputs using four new Amazon CloudWatch metrics and two new APIs. These metrics and APIs can help you diagnose and troubleshoot issues with live streams either as they happen or after the streams have ended. You can also use APIs […]

Azure – General availability: New Sweden Central region added to Azure HDInsight
HDInsight is now available in more European regions, Sweden Central. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Service Management Connector for ServiceNow supports AWS Systems Manager Change Manager
Starting today, customers can make change requests for AWS resources/services based on templates in ServiceNow via AWS Systems Manager Change Manager. Upon approval in ServiceNow, these change requests will execute the AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks associated to the change template. AWS Systems Manager Change Manager simplifies the way you request, approve, implement, and report […]

AWS – AWS Service Management Connector makes installation easier through ServiceNow Guided Setup
Starting today, customers can install the AWS Service Management Connector via a guided setup in ServiceNow. This guided setup simplifies the ServiceNow scoped app configurations tasks, minimizing the expertise needed to establish the connection between AWS and ServiceNow. ServiceNow administrators, or power users with permissions to the Connector scoped app, simply follow the guided steps […]

AWS – Amazon SNS now supports publishing batches of up to 10 messages in a single API request
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports message batching for the publish action, which let’s you publish up to 10 messages in a single batch request to either Standard Topics or FIFO Topics. Batching messages into a single API request is intended for those who want to reduce their costs associated with connecting decoupled […]

AWS – Amazon Polly Launches a new French Neural Text-to-Speech voice
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of the Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) version of Léa, a French Polly voice. Now, Amazon Polly customers can enjoy Léa either as an NTTS or a Standard voice. With this launch, we now offer 23 NTTS voices […]
GCP – Resolving 3 financial services challenges with Neo4j Aura on Google Cloud
Over the last decade, financial service organizations have been adopting a cloud-first mindset. According to InformationWeek, lower costs and enhanced scalability were the biggest drivers for cloud adoption in financial services, and cloud-native applications allow access to the latest technology and talent, enabling adopters to rebuild transaction processing systems capable of supporting very high volumes […]