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Azure – Azure Databricks Achieves FedRAMP High Authorization on Microsoft Azure Government
With this certification, customers can now use Azure Databricks to process the U.S. government’s most sensitive, unclassified data in cloud computing environments, including data that involves the protection of life and financial assets. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Resource Manager template support for Azure file share backup
You can now leverage Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template to configure backup for Azure file shares. Read More for the details.
AWS – Managed Backup Retention for AWS CloudHSM
AWS CloudHSM automatically takes a backup of your HSM cluster once a day and whenever an HSM is added to or removed from your cluster. Until today, however, customers were responsible for deleting old backups. Deleting out of date backups is important to prevent inactive users and expired login credentials from being used to access […]
GCP – Wayfair delights suppliers and customers with help from Google Cloud
At Wayfair, we use data to advance our business processes and help our suppliers work more efficiently, all with the end goal of delivering great customer experiences. As one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home, our massive scale allows us to use data to delight our customers and help our thousands of […]
Azure – Microsoft to establish its first datacenter region in Sweden
The new region is anticipated to include Microsoft Azure, with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Power Platform to follow. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Config now supports organization-wide resource data aggregation in a delegated administrator account
AWS Config lets you assess, audit, and evaluate how your AWS resources are configured, and helps you determine your overall compliance against the configurations specified in your internal guidelines. You can use AWS Config aggregators to collect your configuration and compliance data from the below sources, and aggregate that data into a single account and […]
AWS – Amazon Transcribe Medical adds streaming transcription support for medical specialties: cardiology, oncology, neurology, radiology, and urology
Amazon Transcribe Medical is a HIPAA-eligible automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech-to-text capabilities to their healthcare and life science applications. Up until now, Amazon Transcribe Medical can transcribe speech for medical specialties under the broader Primary Care umbrella such as internal medicine, family medicine, obstetrics-gynecology (OB-GYN), and […]
AWS – AWS Single Sign-On enables attribute-based access control for workforce users to simplify permissions in AWS
AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) now enables you to create fine-grained permissions for your workforce in AWS using attributes, such as cost center and department, defined in your AWS SSO identity source. Your administrators can now implement attribute-based access control (ABAC) with AWS SSO to centrally manage access to your AWS accounts and simplify permissions management […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Chat now supports interactive messages
You can now create richer customer experiences and resolve issues faster by using interactive messages in Amazon Connect Chat. Interactive messages enable you to send prompts and pre-configured response options, eliminating the need for a customer to manually type in their reply. For example, customers can choose a recent order they need help with or […]
AWS – Amazon Lex adds language support for German and Latin American Spanish
Today, we are excited to announce the addition of German and Latin American Spanish language support to Amazon Lex. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex provides deep learning powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) […]