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AWS – AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN is now available in Sydney, Tokyo, and Oregon AWS regions
AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions, extending the footprint to 5 AWS Regions. This is in addition to the IoT Core for LoRaWAN availability in US East (N. Virginia) and EU (Ireland) AWS regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS lowers data processing charges for AWS PrivateLink
Effective July 1, 2021, AWS is reducing data processing charges for VPC Interface Endpoints (powered by AWS PrivateLink). The new tiered pricing will reduce the costs for accessing high-volume, data intensive services over AWS PrivateLink. AWS PrivateLink enables customers to access AWS services or any other service hosted on AWS in a secure and scalable […]

AWS – AWS Amplify allows you to mix and match authorization modes in DataStore
With today’s release, Amplify DataStore now supports multiple authorization modes, making it easy for developers to control how their users can access app data. DataStore provides frontend app developers the ability to build real-time apps with offline capabilities by storing data on-device (web browser or mobile device) and automatically synchronizing data to the cloud and […]

AWS – AWS Systems Manager Application Manager now supports full lifecycle management of AWS CloudFormation templates and stacks
Today, AWS announces a new feature of Application Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, which customers can use to manage and provision their AWS CloudFormation templates and stacks without leaving the Application Manager console. With Application Manager, customers can discover and manage applications across multiple AWS services like AWS Launch Wizard, AWS Service Catalog […]

AWS – New digital course: Amazon S3 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
AWS Training and Certification is pleased to introduce a free digital course: Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. This advanced, 50-minute course will help you learn how to implement a business continuity and disaster recovery plan for your Amazon S3 implementation. Designed for cloud architects, storage architects, developers, and operations […]

AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for real-time audio-video using a web browser
Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports real-time audio-video (AV) by seamlessly redirecting local webcam video input to AppStream 2.0 streaming sessions using a web browser. Previously, this feature was available only for the AppStream 2.0 client for Windows. With real-time AV support available in the web browser, your users can use AV collaboration and media applications […]


AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports New Minor Versions 13.3, 12.7, 11.12, 10.17, and 9.6.22
Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database, we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 13.3, 12.7, 11.12, 10.17, and 9.6.22. This release closes security vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL and contains bug fixes and improvements done by the PostgreSQL community. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon CloudFront announces new APIs to locate and move alternate domain names (CNAMEs)
Amazon CloudFront announces two new APIs, ListConflictingAliases and AssociateAlias, that help locate and move Alternate Domain Names (CNAMEs) if you encounter the CNAMEAlreadyExists error code. These new APIs let you see which distribution has the CNAME and move the CNAME to a target distribution as long as the source distribution is in the same account […]
GCP – Authenticating to Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL with IAM service accounts
In October of 2020 we announced the launch of a preview of IAM Authentication to Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL. This blog post’s goal is to provide an ELI5 procedural outline of the steps that one needs to take in order to that led to perform: Configure Cloud SQL for IAM Authentication Configure a user agent […]