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AWS – Amazon AppFlow now stores credentials in customers’ AWS Secrets Manager account
Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that enables customers to securely transfer data between AWS services and cloud applications, now stores encrypted credentials used to connect to flow sources and destination applications including OAuth tokens, Application and API keys, and passwords in customers’ own AWS Secrets Manager account. Previously, AppFlow was storing these encrypted […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports SASL/SCRAM authentication for functions triggered from Amazon MSK
AWS Lambda functions that are triggered from an Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) topic can now access to usernames and passwords secured by AWS Secrets Manager using SASL/SCRAM (Simple Authentication and Security Layer/Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism). Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Data Exchange data sets now easily available for visual transformation using AWS Glue DataBrew via console integration
AWS Glue DataBrew today announced integration of third-party data sets available via AWS Data Exchange directly in the AWS Glue DataBrew console. Customers who use AWS Data Exchange to acquire third-party data can now easily view their entitled third-party data in the AWS Glue DataBrew console and then, visually explore , combine, clean and transform […]
AWS – Introducing Distributed Load Testing v1.2
Distributed Load Testing on AWS helps you easily simulate thousands of users connecting to your application so that you can better understand your application performance under load. The solution launches and configures containers on AWS Fargate to generate a specified number of transactions per second without having to provision servers. Read More for the details.
Azure – Python Durable Functions support in Azure Functions is now generally available
Python developers can now create serverless workflows to orchestrate complex data processing and data science workloads in Azure Functions. Read More for the details.
Azure – Additional support for managed identity in Azure Stream Analytics now in public preview
Azure Stream Analytics now supports managed identity for Blob input, Event Hubs (input and output), Synapse SQL Pools and customer storage account. As a result, customers do not have to manage service-to-service credentials by themselves, and can process events when streams of data are coming from Event Hubs in a VNet or using a firewall. […]
Azure – Five more free services now available in the Azure free account
Free amounts of Archive Storage, Container Registry, Load Balancer, Service Bus, and VPN Gateway are now available for eligible Azure free account users, as well as and increased free amounts of Cosmos DB. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing new Amazon EC2 C6gn instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors with 100 Gbps networking
Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6gn instances powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors and featuring up to 100 Gbps network bandwidth are generally available. Amazon EC2 C6gn instances deliver up to 40% better price-performance over C5n instances for applications requiring high network bandwidth such as high performance computing (HPC), network appliances, data lakes and data analytics. […]
AWS – AWS CloudFormation StackSets is now available in Africa (Cape Town), EU (Milan), and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions
AWS CloudFormation has expanded the availability of StackSets to Africa (Cape Town), EU (Milan), and Middle East (Bahrain). StackSets is a CloudFormation feature that allows you to centrally manage deployment of cloud resources to multiple AWS accounts and Regions in a single operation. StackSets is also integrated with AWS Organizations so you can take advantage […]
AWS – Amazon Chime now supports joining meetings from Echo Show 8
Customers can now join Amazon Chime meetings on Echo Show 8. We recommend customers simply link their calendar using the Alexa app. Once linked, customers can say, “Alexa, join the Amazon Chime meeting” or “Alexa, join the meeting” at the time of the meeting to enjoy the meeting experience on their Echo Show 8. If […]