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AWS – Amazon Connect chat now provides automation and personalization capabilities with whisper flows
Whisper flows, which allow information to be passed to an agent or customer while being connected on a call, are now available in Amazon Connect chat. For example, you can display text showing the customer’s name and membership status to an agent, inform a customer that the chat is being recorded for quality assurance purposes, […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Studio is now available in the Europe (Frankfurt) AWS region
Amazon SageMaker Studio is now available in the Europe (Frankfurt) AWS region. Amazon SageMaker Studio is the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML). SageMaker Studio provides a single, web-based visual interface where you can perform all ML development steps, giving you complete access, control, and visibility required to build, train, and […]
Azure – Azure Blob – Soft Delete for Containers preview region expansion
Azure Blob Soft Delete for Containers public preview is now available in all public Azure regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Lambda Extensions: a new way to integrate Lambda with operational tools (in preview)
You can now use AWS Lambda with extensions for your favorite operational tools for monitoring, observability, security, and governance. Today, you can use extensions for the following tools: AppDynamics, Check Point, Datadog, Dynatrace, Epsagon, HashiCorp, Lumigo, New Relic, Thundra, Splunk, AWS AppConfig, and Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights. Read More for the details.
GCP – The Google Cloud Healthcare Consent Management API: protecting emerging data in digital care and research
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated trends across many industries; in health, it has created a need for new solutions to enable virtual care—and even run clinical trials remotely. This has, in turn, created the need for tools that help healthcare application developers and researchers easily manage and secure patient consent for the use of […]
AWS – Amazon WorkDocs now supports Dark Mode on iOS
Starting today, you can now switch the color theme of your WorkDocs iOS application for a darker appearance. With Dark Mode, the appearance of the app is inverted so that instead of black text on white background, you see white text on a black background. The design reduces the light emitted by your device’s screen […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub launches a new user interface for security standards
AWS Security Hub has improved how we display details for security standards, which are collections of automated security checks based on industry and regulatory frameworks like the Center for Internet Security’s (CIS) AWS Foundational Benchmarks, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and AWS’s own Foundational Security Best Practices. We have implemented a […]
AWS – Apache Flink Kinesis Consumer supports EFO and HTTP/2 data retrieval
Apache Flink Kinesis Consumer now supports Enhanced Fan Out (EFO) and the HTTP/2 data retrieval API for Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. EFO allows Amazon Kinesis Data Streams consumers to scale by offering each consumer a dedicated read throughput up to 2MB/second. The HTTP/2 data retrieval API reduces latency of data delivery from producers to consumers […]
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache for Redis adds support for Redis 6 with managed Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports Redis 6. This release brings several new and important features to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis. Read More for the details.
AWS – CodeGuru Profiler now supports resource tagging
Amazon CodeGuru Profiler now supports resource tagging for profiling groups, making it easy for AWS customers to manage their resources effectively as their utilization of AWS services begins to scale. Read More for the details.