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AWS – Amazon EC2 now supports sharing Amazon Machine Images across AWS Organizations and Organizational Units
You can now share your Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) with AWS Organizations and Organizational Units (OUs). Previously, you could share AMIs only with specific AWS account IDs. To share AMIs with AWS Organizations, you had to explicitly manage sharing of AMIs with AWS accounts that were added to or removed from AWS Organizations. With this new feature, […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Chat adds real-time message streaming APIs
Amazon Connect Chat now provides new APIs that allow you to create customized experiences for your customers by enabling you to subscribe to a real-time stream of chat messages. Using the new APIs, you can integrate Amazon Connect Chat with SMS solutions and third party messaging applications (e.g., Facebook Messenger, Twitter), enable mobile push notifications, […]
AWS – Amazon Transcribe now supports batch transcription in AWS Stockholm and Cape Town Regions
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications without any machine learning expertise. Starting today, Amazon Transcribe supports batch transcription in the AWS Stockholm and Cape Town Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS App Mesh Metric Extension is now generally available
AWS App Mesh Metric Extension is now generally available. With the Metric Extension, customers can collect and filter aggregated App Mesh service metrics that help with debugging, simplify monitoring, and reduce usage costs. App Mesh Metric Extension is available to all customers running workloads on Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and self-managed Kubernetes. AWS App […]
AWS – Improved celebrity recognition is now available for Amazon Rekognition Video
Amazon Rekognition is a machine learning (ML) based service that can analyze images and videos to detect objects, people, faces, text, scenes, activities, and inappropriate content. Celebrity Recognition makes it easy for customers to automatically recognize tens of thousands of well-known personalities in images and videos using ML. Celebrity recognition significantly reduces the repetitive manual […]
AWS – Amazon QLDB launches new version of QLDB Shell
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) launches a new version of the QLDB Shell that is easier to install and use. QLDB customers can now download the QLDB Shell tailored to their favorite operating system and begin querying a QLDB ledger without any other installation steps or dependencies to install. Expert users have the option to […]
AWS – New region availability and Graviton2 support now available for Amazon GameLift
Amazon GameLift, a fully managed dedicated game server hosting solution that deploys, operates, and scales cloud servers for multiplayer games, is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. Game developers can now deploy instances in Osaka using GameLift multi-region fleet. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Multiple backups per day for Azure Files
Azure Backup now supports configuring multiple backups per day for Azure Files via backup policy. You can achieve RPO (Recovery Point Objective) up to 4 hours using Azure Files snapshot-based backup solution. Read More for the details.
Azure – Querying Delta Lake files using T-SQL in Azure Synapse Analytics is generally available
Querying Delta Lake format using the T-SQL language in Azure Synapse is generally available. Read More for the details.
Azure – Logic Apps Standard Plan updates in public preview
Logic Apps Standard was released at Ignite 2020 and since then we have added a lot of features to enable better enterprise integration between mission critical systems on cloud, on premises, and in a hybrid way with runtime available on Azure, Azure Arc and locally. This post includes capabilities now available in public preview. Read […]