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Azure – Azure IRAP has assessed seven additional services and granted them the level of PROTECTED
Azure expands its depth of offerings to Australian customers with its latest independent IRAP assessment. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Connect reduces 10 Latin America telephony rates
Amazon Connect is announcing 10 telephony rate reductions for customers in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Peru from the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EBS io2 volumes now support SAP workloads
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) io2 volumes are now supported for SAP workloads. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Security Hub adds open source tool integrations with Kube-bench and Cloud Custodian
AWS Security Hub can now automatically receive findings from the open source tool Kube-bench Kube-bench checks whether your Kubernetes cluster is configured in accordance with the recommendations from the Center for Internet Security (CIS), supporting both the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark and the CIS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Benchmark. Kube-bench’s findings about non-compliant configuration […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon RDS for SQL Server now support R5b instance types in additional AWS Regions
On December 1, we announced support for Amazon EC2 R5b instance types in the US East (Ohio), Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions. Starting today, we’re happy to announce you can now launch Amazon EC2 R5b instance types using Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon RDS for SQL Server in additional AWS Regions: North […]

AWS – AWS CloudTrail provides more granular control of data event logging through advanced event selectors
AWS CloudTrail now provides more granular control of data event logging with advanced event selectors. Data events provide visibility into the data plane resource operations performed on or within a resource. You can currently log data events on two resource types: Amazon S3 object-level API activity (e.g. GetObject, DeleteObject, and PutObject API operations), and AWS […]

AWS – Announcing table charts for AWS IoT SiteWise
AWS IoT SiteWise now supports table charts in AWS IoT SiteWise Monitor. With table charts, you can have a compact representation of the latest data from your equipment in a simple table simply by dragging and dropping the data and metrics you are interested in monitoring into a table. For example, you can now easily tabulate […]

AWS – Amazon API Gateway now supports integration with Step Functions StartSyncExecution for HTTP APIs
Customers can now create HTTP APIs that route requests to the new AWS Step Functions Synchronous Express Workflows. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EMR now provides up to 30% lower cost and up to 15% improved performance for Spark workloads on Graviton2-based instances
Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g and R6g instances with EMR Versions 6.1.0, 5.31.0 and later. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors that are custom designed by AWS utilizing 64-bit ArmNeoverse cores to deliver the best price performance for cloud workloads running in Amazon EC2. Please read our blog for more […]
AWS – Amazon Connect adds inbound telephony for four Latin America countries
Amazon Connect now supports claiming local toll-free and direct inward dial phone numbers in four new Latin American countries in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions. These new local telephony services support customers in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Peru. Read More for the details.