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AWS – Amazon Connect allows contact center managers to configure agent settings in a custom Contact Control Panel (CCP)
Amazon Connect now gives contact center managers the ability to change the visibility of the options that appear on the Settings page of the Contact Control Panel (CCP) when using the the Amazon Connect Streams API. For example, contact center managers may want to hide the “Phone Type” setting to prevent users from selecting a […]

Azure – Public preview – Support for multiple currencies on Retail Rates API for all Azure products/services
An unauthenticated experience to get retail prices in different currencies for all Azure products/services (including Reserved Instances). Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS announces general availability of AQUA for Amazon Redshift
AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) for Amazon Redshift is generally available now. AQUA provides a new distributed and hardware accelerated cache that brings compute to the storage layer for Amazon Redshift and delivers up to 10x faster query performance than other enterprise cloud data warehouses. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS CodeCommit is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
AWS CodeCommit is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) region. AWS CodeCommit is a secure, highly scalable, managed source control service that hosts private Git repositories. CodeCommit eliminates the need for you to manage your own source control system or worry about scaling its infrastructure. You can use CodeCommit to store anything from code […]

Azure – Azure SQL—general availability updates for April 14, 2021
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in April 2021. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure IoT Edge nesting capabilities are now generally available
Our commitment is to simplify IoT for mainstream adoption. As such, we are announcing general availability of nesting capabilities for Azure IoT Edge for industrials to connect their equipment to the cloud through multiple network layers as recommended by the ANSI/ISA-95 standard. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview of SAP NetWeaver, North Europe, and new updates in cluster monitoring
Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions (AMS) supports SAP NetWeaver monitoring in public preview, new metrics for high-availability (pacemaker) clusters, and availability in North Europe region. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK
The Microsoft Build of OpenJDK is a new Long-Term Support distribution of OpenJDK for your Java workloads, in the cloud and everywhere else. Read More for the details.

Azure – Reduce dataflow execution time with cluster reuse public preview in Azure Data Factory
Azure Data Factory (ADF) has released a “quick re-use” option as public preview to the Azure Integration Runtime TTL to reduce data flow execution to from 2 mins to under 20 seconds. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Cognitive Services- Anomaly Detector now supports multivariate anomaly detection
Enable organizations to identify anomalies across multiple variables with multivariate Anomaly Detector. Read More for the details.