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AWS – Amazon Polly NTTS voices now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of all Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voices in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. You can now synthesize over 15 NTTS voices, including the Newscaster and Conversational speaking styles. In addition, you can continue to synthesize the over 60 standard voices […]

AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless as a target
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded functionality by adding support for Amazon Aurora Serverless (PostgreSQL-compatible edition) as a target. Amazon Aurora Serverless (PostgreSQL-compatible edition) is an on-demand, auto-scaling configuration where the database will automatically start up, shut down, and scale capacity up or down based on your application’s needs. Using AWS DMS, you can […]

GCP – Closing the gap: Migration completeness when using Database Migration Service
Database Migration Service (DMS) provides high-fidelity, minimal downtime migrations for MySQL (Preview) and PostgreSQL (available in Preview by request) workloads to Cloud SQL. Since DMS is serverless, you don’t have to worry about provisioning, managing, or monitoring any migration-specific resources. In this post, we’ll focus on what is and is not included in database migration […]

AWS – Now you can use Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to capture item-level changes in your Amazon DynamoDB tables
With Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for Amazon DynamoDB, you can capture item-level changes in your DynamoDB tables as a Kinesis data stream. You can enable streaming to a Kinesis data stream on your table with a single click in the DynamoDB console, or via the AWS API or AWS CLI. Read More for the […]

AWS – You now can use a SQL-compatible query language to query, insert, update, and delete table data in Amazon DynamoDB
You now can use PartiQL (a SQL-compatible query language)—in addition to already-available DynamoDB operations—to query, insert, update, and delete table data in Amazon DynamoDB. PartiQL makes it easier to interact with DynamoDB and run queries in the AWS Management Console. Because PartiQL is supported for all DynamoDB data-plane operations, it can help improve the productivity […]

AWS – AWS Pricing Calculator now supports Amazon DynamoDB
AWS Pricing Calculator now supports Amazon DynamoDB. Estimate the cost of DynamoDB workloads before you build them, including the cost of features such as on-demand capacity mode, backup and restore, DynamoDB Streams, and DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX). Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Studio is now expanded to AWS regions worldwide
Amazon SageMaker Studio is now available in thirteen more AWS regions, bringing its total available regions to twenty-two. 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 […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics launches enhancements for API monitoring
CloudWatch Synthetics now supports monitoring multiple APIs in a single canary and viewing detailed HTTP request reports by using the new minor runtime version, syn-nodejs-2.2. This gives you flexibility to test multiple HTTP requests together and individually monitor metrics of each request. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon AppFlow expands integrations with ServiceNow
Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that enables customers to securely transfer data between AWS services and cloud applications, now supports import of all standard and custom tables from ServiceNow into Amazon S3. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Security Hub integrates with AWS Organizations for simplified security posture management
AWS Security Hub is now integrated with AWS Organizations to simplify security posture management across all of your existing and future AWS accounts in an organization. With this launch, new and existing Security Hub customers can delegate any account in their organization as the Security Hub administrator and centrally view security findings from up to […]