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Azure – Direct routing for Azure Communication Services now available in public preview
Developers will be able to use or extend their existing telephony infrastructure to the calling capabilities they build with Azure Communication Services. Read More for the details.

Azure – App Service Environment v3 now generally available
App Service Environments v3 is now available with no stamp fee and a simplified deployment experience for isolated workloads. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Transition to Cloud Services (extended support) with new migration tool
Accelerate your transition to Cloud Services (extended support) in Azure Resource Manager (ARM) using the new tool that provides a seamless and fully orchestrated migration of your Cloud Services (classic) deployments. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Graviton2 based M6g, C6g, R6g and T4g instances are now available in EU (Paris, Milan) regions, and M6g instances are available in Middle East (Bahrain) regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, R6g, and T4g instances are available in EU (Paris, Milan) regions. Additionally, Amazon EC2 M6g instances are also available in Middle East (Bahrain) regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Application Migration Service is now available in the US West (Northern California), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Canada (Central), and South America (São Paulo) Regions
AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is now available in four additional AWS Regions: US West (Northern California), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Canada (Central), and South America (São Paulo). Read More for the details.

Azure – Upgrade to Azure Communication Services Calling JavaScript SDK 1.1.0 by 31 July 2021
We’ve updated JavaScript SDK 1.1.0 to address browser calling applications compatibility. Read More for the details.

Azure – IoT Hub IP address change notification
IoT Hub will be updating the underlying infrastructure and will go through an internal service update. The update will change the underlying DNS record for IoT Hub, resulting in a change of the IP address. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amplify Admin UI now supports importing existing Amazon Cognito User Pools and Identity Pools
Amplify Admin UI now supports importing existing Amazon Cognito User Pools and Identity Pools. This means you can link your Cognito User Pool and Identity Pool resources to your Amplify app to take advantage of authorization scenarios for your data model, and manage users and groups directly from the Admin UI. Read More for the […]

AWS – Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports the consistent hash exchange type
You can now use the consistent hash exchange type on your Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ brokers. This exchange type uses consistent hashing to uniformly distribute messages across queues. Consistent hash exchanges are useful in applications like transaction processing to maintain the order of dependent messages while scaling up the number of consumers. Read More for […]
AWS – Amazon Athena adds parameterized queries to improve reusability and security
Amazon Athena users can now leverage the reusability, simplification, and security benefits of parameterized queries. Available today, analysts can save time and eliminate errors by converting queries that have frequently modified criteria, such as date filters or aggregation periods, into a parameterized query that serves multiple use cases. Application developers can use them to safeguard […]