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AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports using smart cards for Active Directory domain login and streaming applications
Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports the use of smart cards such as Personal Identity Verification (PIV) and Common Access Card (CAC) smart cards for authentication to AppStream 2.0 streaming instances. Smart cards are also supported for in-session authentication for streaming applications. With this launch, your users can use a smart card reader and smart card […]
GCP – 2021 resolutions: Kick off the new year with free Google Cloud training
Tackle your New Year’s resolutions with our new skills challenge, which will provide you with no cost training to build cloud knowledge and an opportunity to earn Google Cloud skill badges to showcase your cloud competencies. There are 4 initial tracks in the skills challenge: Getting Started, Data Analytics, Hybrid and Multi-cloud, Machine Learning (ML) […]
GCP – Using machine learning to improve road maintenance
There’s a new way to look out for potholes in the road and it doesn’t involve better eyeglasses or dispatching costly repair crews. Bus-mounted cameras and machine learning can do it for you, as the City of Memphis discovered. Staying on top of deteriorating roads when you can’t add more personnel is a never […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports New Minor Versions 12.5, 11.10, 10.15, 9.6.20, and 9.5.24
Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database, we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 12.5, 11.10, 10.15, 9.6.20, and 9.5.24. 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 SNS adds support for message archiving and analytics via Kinesis Data Firehose subscriptions
You can now use Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) to deliver messages to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. This new subscription type for SNS enables message storage, analytics, and auditing by providing a simple way to send Amazon SNS messages to data lakes, data stores, and analytics services. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Snowcone now supports multicast streams and routing by providing instances with direct access to external networks
AWS Snowcone now supports multicast streams, routing, load balancing, and other networking use cases by enabling instances on a Snow device to have direct access to an external network. By providing instances with layer 2 network access without any intermediary translation or filtering, customers gain increased flexibility over the network configuration of their Snow device […]
AWS – Amazon Lightsail now supports IPv6
Amazon Lightsail now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) on Lightsail resources like instances, containers, load balancers and CDN. With this launch, Lightsail resources operate in dual-stack mode, accepting both IPv4 and IPv6 client connections. This helps unlock application scenarios where some end user clients are IPv6 only. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing support for Methods via Uniform Function Call syntax in AWS IoT SiteWise
AWS IoT SiteWise now supports usage of methods in formula expressions through Uniform Function Call Syntax (UFCS). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Redshift now supports fine-grained access control on COPY and UNLOAD commands
You can now grant the privilege to run COPY and UNLOAD commands to specific users and groups in your Amazon Redshift cluster to create more fine-grained access control policy. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing the global expansion of AWS Contact Center Intelligence solutions
Today we are delighted to announce the global expansion of AWS Contact Center Intelligence (CCI) solutions powered by AWS AI Services and made available through the AWS Partner Network. With our partners, you can quickly implement AWS CCI solutions to add AWS machine learning (ML) capabilities into your current contact center infrastructure to increase operational […]