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AWS – AWS Premium Support launches Support Automation Workflow (SAW) runbooks for self-service diagnosis and remediation
Today, AWS Premium Support launches Support Automation Workflows (SAW) to enable self-service diagnosis and remediation for AWS customers. Further, we are launching additional advanced runbooks that will be available to Enterprise and Business Support customers for faster issue resolution. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Transcribe Medical now provides automatic Protected Health Information (PHI) identification for batch processing
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 healthcare and life science applications. We are pleased to launch support for the automatic identification of protected health information (PHI) in your medical transcriptions feature for batch processing. With automatic PHI identification, customers […]

AWS – Announcing PostgreSQL 12.5 support for Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) on AWS Outposts now supports PostgreSQL 12.5 for production deployment. Amazon RDS on Outposts allows you to deploy fully managed database instances in your on-premises environments. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, or […]

Azure – General availability: VNET peering support for Azure Bastion
You can now deploy Azure Bastion in a peered Virtual Network (VNet), enabling RDP/SSH connectivity to virtual machines deployed in a peered Virtual network (VNet) Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview of Azure VPN Client for macOS
Azure VPN Client for macOS enables customers to utilize features of Azure AD natively, such as multi-factor authentication, Conditional Access, and user-based policies for their Mac clients. Read More for the details.

Azure – Action Required: Migrate your Azure Blockchain Service data by 10 September 2021
Migrate your data to the ConsenSys Quorum Blockchain Service. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Kendra now available in Asia-Pacific (Singapore) AWS region
Starting today, AWS customers can use Amazon Kendra to build intelligent search applications in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS Region. Read More for the details.

GCP – Why embedding financial services into digital experiences can generate new revenue
Faced with changing customer behaviors and demands, tightening margins, and increasing threat from digital competitors, financial services institutions (FSIs) will need to meet customers where they are, open up their services, and establish new ways to monetize their products. Doing so will also enable them to build a better profile of their customers, and deliver […]

GCP – Automate your budgeting with the Billing Budgets API
TL;DR – Budgets are ideal for visibility into your costs but they can become tedious to manually update. Using the Billing Budgets API you can automate updates and changes with your custom business logic! We’ve talked a lot about what budgets are and how to set them up. Once you’re working with a larger company […]
AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces a new lower cost storage tier
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports cold storage, a fully-managed storage tier that makes it easy for customers to securely store and analyze their infrequently accessed data on-demand, at a lower cost than other storage tiers. You pay for compute only when you need it. Cold storage allows you to retain any amount of data in […]