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AWS – Introducing Amazon FinSpace, a fully managed service to store, prepare, and analyze data for the financial services industry (FSI)
Amazon FinSpace is a new fully managed data management and analytics service that makes it easy to store, catalog, and prepare financial industry data at scale, reducing the time it takes for financial services industry (FSI) customers to find and access all types of financial data for analysis from months to minutes. Read More […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now support Amazon RDS Encrypted Cross-Region Automated Backups
Starting today Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now support Amazon RDS Encrypted Cross-Region Automated Backups. This feature extends the existing RDS backup functionality, giving you the ability to set up automatic replication of system snapshots and transaction logs from a primary AWS Region to a secondary AWS Region. These […]

AWS – AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Starting today, AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon DynamoDB local now supports the AWS SDK for Java 2.x
You now can use the AWS SDK for Java 2.x with DynamoDB local, the downloadable version of Amazon DynamoDB. With DynamoDB local, you can develop and test applications by using a version of DynamoDB running in your local development environment without incurring any additional costs. DynamoDB local does not require an internet connection, and it works […]

AWS – Easily clean up unused resources in Amazon Forecast using hierarchical deletion
We are excited to announce that you can now hierarchically delete resources in Amazon Forecast at a parent level without having to locate the child resources. You can stay focused on building value adding forecasting systems and not worry about trying to manage individual resources that are created in your workflow. Amazon Forecast uses machine […]

AWS – Amazon CloudFront announces CloudFront Functions, a lightweight edge compute capability
Amazon CloudFront announces the general availability of CloudFront Functions, a new serverless edge compute capability. You can use this new CloudFront feature to run JavaScript functions across 225+ CloudFront edge locations in 90 cities across 47 countries. CloudFront Functions is built for lightweight HTTP(S) transformations and manipulations, allowing you to deliver richer, more personalized content […]

AWS – S3 Object Lambda is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
S3 Object Lambda is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With S3 Object Lambda you can add your own code to S3 GET requests to modify and process data as it is returned to an application. For the first time, you can use custom code to modify the data returned by standard S3 […]

AWS – Amazon Connect CTI Adapter for Salesforce adds programmable buttons with CTI Actions
The Amazon Connect Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) Adapter for Salesforce now enables customers to extend their Contact Control Panel (CCP) with customizable buttons called CTI Actions. These buttons can be configured in Salesforce and used to simplify common agent actions. For example, you can add a button that transfers calls to a manager, start and stop […]

GCP – Include Cloud Spanner databases in your CI/CD process with the Liquibase extension
In February, we announced the beta version of the Liquibase Cloud Spanner extension that allows developers to use Liquibase’s open-source database library to manage and automate schema changes in Cloud Spanner. We’re happy to share that the Liquibase Cloud Spanner extension is now GA. What is Liquibase? Liquibase, an open-source library that works with a […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Customer Profiles launches Identity Resolution in Preview to detect and merge duplicate customer profiles
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now automatically detects duplicate customer profiles in your Amazon Connect Customer Profiles domain and allows you to review the results by using Identity Resolution APIs (preview). Identity Resolution uses machine learning to detect duplicate profiles based on similar name, email address, and phone number. For example, two or more profiles—with spelling […]