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AWS – Amazon RDS Proxy can now be created in a shared Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Amazon RDS Proxy now enables you to create Proxies in a shared, centrally-managed Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). VPC sharing allows teams, each with their AWS accounts, to create resources into a centrally-managed VPC. This reduces the number of VPCs that you need to create and manage, while using separate accounts for billing and access […]

AWS – Amazon Rekognition Video segment detection now supports four new segment types, improves accuracy
Amazon Rekognition Video is a machine learning (ML) based service that can analyze videos to detect objects, people, faces, text, scenes, activities, and inappropriate content. Video segment detection makes it easy for media companies to streamline common operational tasks by automatically detecting frame-accurate silent black frames, end credits, color bars, and shot changes in video files. […]

AWS – Amazon Athena is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) region
Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. Read More for the details.

AWS – Contact Lens for Amazon Connect can now categorize contacts with contact attributes and integrates with Tasks and EventBridge
Contact Center supervisors can now use Rules in Amazon Connect to categorize contacts with more granularity. You can also generate an Amazon Connect Task for a supervisor to further investigate customer experience issues and follow-up, or configure Rules to automatically generate an EventBridge event. Read More for the details.

GCP – Try a tutorial in the Google Cloud Console
When it comes to learning how to implement some technology, we all have our own version of what I call the “tab game”—that is, your setup for all the tabs and windows you need open at once. You may have several monitors so you can see documentation, your IDE, and terminal windows at the same […]

Azure – Azure Automation Hybrid Worker Extension for Azure and Arc machines is coming soon
Onboard Azure automation hybrid workers using hybrid extension for Azure and Arc machines Read More for the details.

Azure – Powershell 7 support in Azure Automation is coming soon
Execute Automation runbooks for production scenarios using PowerShell 7.1 Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure AD support for Azure Automation is coming soon
Use Azure AD based authentication for Automation public endpoints Read More for the details.

Azure – Az module support in Azure Automation is coming soon
Use the latest Az modules in the Automation runbooks Read More for the details.
Azure – Availability Zone support for Azure Automation is coming soon
Achieve higher reliability and resiliency through Availability Zones in Azure Automation. Read More for the details.