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AWS – AWS Single Sign-On adds account assignment APIs and AWS CloudFormation support to automate multi-account access management
AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) adds new account assignment APIs and AWS CloudFormation support to automate access across AWS Organizations accounts. You can also use the APIs to retrieve permissions programmatically for audit and governance purposes. The new release enables you to automate control of the AWS SSO central permissions, making it easier to manage access […]
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces introduces support for cross-Region redirection
Amazon WorkSpaces now allows you to use a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) as your Amazon WorkSpaces registration code. When your end users log in to WorkSpaces, you can then redirect them across Amazon WorkSpaces Regions based on your Domain Name System (DNS) policies for the FQDN. Amazon WorkSpaces cross-Region redirection works with both public […]
AWS – Build Amazon Chime SDK web applications with the React user interface framework
Starting today, web developers can use the Amazon Chime SDK React Component Library to simplify implementation of common user experiences, for example device selection and local video preview, in their real-time voice, video, and screen sharing web applications. By building with higher-level components, developers can focus on customizing their application while reducing investments in complex […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift now supports 100K tables in a single cluster
Amazon Redshift now supports up to 100K tables in a single cluster for clusters with DC2.8XL, DS2.8XL, RA3.4XL, and RA3.16XL node types. This feature is intended for customers with workloads that require a large number of tables to run with Amazon Redshift without having to split the tables across clusters or storing them in Amazon […]
Azure – The Azure Monitor Logs page now links to the community GitHub repo
Writing queries can be challenging. The Azure Monitor Logs page now links to hundreds of community-shared examples, so you don’t need to start from scratch. Read More for the details.
Azure – Query Acceleration for Azure Data Lake Storage is now generally available
Query Acceleration for Azure Data Lake Storage is now generally available in all Azure regions. Read More for the details.
Azure – Update .NET to 4.7.2 for Azure Data Factory upgrade by 01 Dec 2020
Update .NET Framework Runtime to 4.7.2 or above to allow upgrade of Azure Data Factory Self-hosted Integration Runtime by 01 Dec 2020 Read More for the details.
Azure – Additional Azure SQL Database gateways changes effective October 12, 2020
Additional SQL Gateways are being added for Azure SQL Database in Germany West Central effective 12 October 2020. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports sharing of an Application Load Balancer among Elastic Beanstalk environments
You can now associate an existing Application Load Balancer when you create an AWS Elastic Beanstalk application environment. This capability enables you to share your existing Application Load Balancer and allow it to serve traffic for multiple applications running on Elastic Beanstalk within the same Amazon Virtual Private Cloud. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing Data API for Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift can now be accessed using the built-in Data API, making it easy to build web-services based applications and integrating with services, including AWS Lambda, AWS AppSync, and AWS Cloud9. Redshift Data API simplifies data access, ingest, and egress from languages supported with AWS SDK such as Python, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Ruby, and […]