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AWS – Amazon Connect adds near real-time insights into voice call, chat, and task activity
Amazon Connect now allows customers to subscribe to a near real-time stream of contact (voice calls, chat, and task) events (e.g., call is queued) in your Amazon Connect contact center. These events include when a voice call, chat, or task is initiated, queued to be assigned to an agent, connected to an agent, transferred to another […]

AWS – Now use AWS Systems Manager Change Calendar to prevent desired-state updates during critical events
You can now use Change Calendar to prevent desired-state configuration updates made usingState Manager. Change Calendar and State Manager are both capabilities of AWS SystemsManager. With Change Calendar, you can schedule calendar events to control when changescan be made to your AWS resources. You can use State Manager to define, enforce, and reporton desired state […]

Azure – Public preview: Application Gateway Mutual Authentication
Application Gateway now supports fronted mutual authentication and listener specific SSL policies. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Athena adds built-in support for cross-account AWS Glue Data Catalogs
Amazon Athena users can now query databases and tables across AWS accounts through built-in support for AWS Glue Data Catalogs in other AWS accounts. Customers need a central data catalog to enable analysts and data scientists to access their data lake without the complexity of replicating catalog metadata in individual AWS accounts. Today’s release makes it easier […]

AWS – Learn how to develop applications with Amazon DynamoDB
We’re excited to introduce a curriculum of three free, digital courses that help you accelerate your application development skills with Amazon DynamoDB, described below. Designed for new or experienced database developers and architects interested in learning how to develop applications with Amazon DynamoDB, these intermediate courses simulate a real application development project. Read More for […]

AWS – AWS Solutions Implementation – The Improving Forecast Accuracy with Machine Learning solution adds contextual featurizations and visualization functionalities to enrich forecast insight
The AWS Solutions team updated Improving Forecast Accuracy with Machine Learning, an AWS Solutions Implementation that helps customers easily generate, test, compare, and iterate on forecasts. The solution allows customers to automatically trigger a workflow to automate the creation of forecasts in Amazon Forecast based on user-provided configuration. The solution then provides automatic visualization using Amazon […]

AWS – New patch releases for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL are now available
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL patch releases are now available for customers using Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition. To review the changes, visit the documentation history and for detailed release notes, visit our version documentation. You can apply the new patch version in the AWS Management Console, via the AWS CLI, or via the RDS API. For detailed instructions, […]

AWS – AWS announces that all AWS Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) endpoints now only accept a minimum of Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 connections
We are happy to announce that all AWS Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) endpoints have been updated to only accept a minimum of Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 connections. This update ensures that our customers who run regulated workloads can meet FedRAMP compliance requirements that mandate a minimum of TLS 1.2 encryption for data in transit. […]

Azure – Azure Static Web Apps is now generally available
Azure Static Web Apps, now includes a standard plan for advanced capabilities supported by an enterprise Service Level Agreement (SLA). Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing the new Machine Downtime Monitor on AWS solution
Machine Downtime Monitor on AWS is a new solution that provides a dashboard to industrial customers to help them monitor the health of factory floor equipment, which enables easier identification of machine breakdowns and quicker response, improving asset availability. This solution offers an intuitive interface that allows non-technical users to easily configure machines and get […]