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Azure – Azure Data Lake Storage Static Website is now generally available
Directly host static content from Azure Data Lake Storage and view that content from a browser by using the public URL of that website. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Lex announces support for multi-valued slots
Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build sophisticated, natural language, conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and IVR systems. Today, Amazon Lex introduces multi-valued slots. A slot is used to capture user responses as the bot gathers information […]

GCP – Up or out—or both: A simple framework for plotting your cloud migration
In times of significant disruption, organizations are faced with three choices: Retrench within legacy solutions, pause and do nothing while waiting for more data or different circumstances, or press ahead, potentially even accelerating to realize the desired outcome. In such an environment, it is critical to ensure you’re delivering the greatest possible impact to the […]

AWS – AWS Announces General Availability of AWS Wavelength in London
Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Wavelength on the Vodafone 4G/5G network in London. Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), enterprises, and developers can now use the AWS Wavelength Zone in London to build ultra-low latency applications for mobile devices and users in the United Kingdom. Read More for the details.

Azure – New Azure private MEC solution announced
Azure private multi-access edge compute (MEC) enables operators and systems integrators to simplify the consumption of secure and private 5G networks, and to easily deliver ultra-low-latency networking, applications, and services at the enterprise edge. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Resource Access Manager enables granular access control with additional managed permissions
AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) helps you securely share your resources across AWS accounts within your organization or organizational units (OUs) in AWS Organizations, and now also with IAM roles and IAM users for supported resource types. Also with this release, AWS RAM now provides additional managed permissions that you can use to define access […]

AWS – AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports more flexibility for CAs shared across accounts
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) has extended support for sharing CAs via Resource Access Manager (RAM). Customers can now share CAs across accounts to issue certificates defined as client only TLS and server only TLS, as well as fully customizable certificates. Customer’s can also choose to share a CA to allow issuance of CA […]

AWS – Announcing AWS App Mesh Controller for Kubernetes Version 1.4.0 with Ingress Enhancements
AWS App Mesh Controller for Kubernetes v1.4.0 is now available and includes support for enhanced ingress traffic management capabilities. The AWS App Mesh Controller for Kubernetes provides a way to configure and manage AWS App Mesh using Kubernetes directly. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to standardize how your services […]

Azure – General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—May 2021
May updates include device template DTDL editing, displaying external content on dashboards, other UI and doc enhancements, and CDE parity with CDE v1. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series are now available in Australia
Confidential computing DCsv2-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in Australia Read More for the details.