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AWS – AWS Control Tower introduces changes to preventive S3 guardrails and updates to S3 bucket encryption protocols
AWS Control Tower is releasing four new, less restrictive, mandatory preventative S3 Log Archive guardrails and changing the guidance of the four previous, more restrictive, preventative S3 Log Archive guardrails from mandatory to elective. With these guardrail changes you can now separate S3 Log Archive governance for resources created by AWS Control Tower from governance […]

AWS – Amazon GuardDuty Now Available in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. You can now continuously monitor and detect security threats in the region to help protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data stored in Amazon S3. Read More for the details.

AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Application Modernization and Migration to AWS Cloud
Application Modernization and Migration to AWS Cloud is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Deloitte, an AWS Mainframe Migration Competency Partner. Application Modernization and Migration to AWS Cloud, powered by innoWakeâ„¢, is a comprehensive solution for enterprises’ mainframe migration and modernization journeys. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduces Warm Pools to accelerate scale out while saving money
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Warm Pools help applications scale out faster and save money by requiring fewer continuously running instances. With Warm Pools, customers can improve the elasticity of their applications by creating a pool of pre-initialized EC2 instances that are ready to quickly serve application traffic. Additionally, Warm Pools offer a way to save […]

AWS – AWS Control Tower now available in Mumbai, Seoul and Tokyo AWS Regions
AWS Control Tower is now available in 3 additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). AWS Control Tower is also available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Europe (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). […]

AWS – AWS IoT Analytics adds schema inference support for Apache Parquet based data stores
AWS IoT Analytics is a fully managed service that makes it easy to collect, pre-process, enrich, store and analyze IoT data at scale to run sophisticated analytics on massive volumes of IoT data and gain insights into how IoT devices are operating without having to worry about the complexity typically required to build an analytics […]

AWS – AWS Step Functions adds new data flow simulator for modelling input and output processing
AWS Step Functions now features a data flow simulator in the Step Functions console, making it easier to evaluate the input and output processing for your state machines, allowing you to build workflows faster. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Purview is now available in the Central India region
Azure Purview is now available in public preview in the Central India region. You can now provision Azure Purview accounts in these regions as a public preview offering. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Automation is now available in South India
Automate tasks across Azure & Non-Azure environment using PowerShell and Python based scripts. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Customer Profiles now includes support for AWS PrivateLink
You can now use AWS PrivateLink to access Amazon Connect Customer Profiles directly as a private endpoint within your secure, virtual network using a new interface VPC endpoint in your Virtual Private Cloud. This extends the functionality of existing gateway endpoints by enabling you to access Amazon Connect Customer Profiles using private IP addresses. API […]