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AWS – Amazon AppFlow now provides Amazon Honeycode connectivity to several cloud applications
Amazon AppFlow now allows customers to integrate existing workflows and data sources, such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications or AWS services, with Amazon Honeycode apps. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon S3 Replication adds support for two-way replication
Amazon S3 Replication now gives you the flexibility of replicating object metadata changes for two-way replication between buckets. With this new feature, replica modification sync, you can easily replicate metadata changes like object access control lists (ACLs), object tags, or object locks on the replicated objects. This two-way replication is important if you want to […]

AWS – AWS Amplify announces new Admin UI
Admin UI offers frontend web and mobile developers an easy way to develop app backends and manage app content outside the AWS console. Every Amplify app backend is now automatically set up with the admin UI which can be used to model data, add authentication and authorization, and manage app content, users, and groups. Team […]

AWS – Amazon S3 Bucket Keys reduce the costs of Server-Side Encryption with AWS Key Management Service (SSE-KMS)
Amazon S3 Bucket Keys reduce the request costs of Amazon S3 server-side encryption (SSE) with AWS Key Management Service (KMS) by up to 99% by decreasing the request traffic from S3 to KMS. With a few clicks in AWS Management Console and no changes to your client applications, you can configure your buckets to use […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches new session capacity pricing options, embedding without user management and a developer portal for embedded analytics
Amazon QuickSight Enterprise Edition now provides a new session capacity-based pricing model with scalable pricing for large-scale deployments. Session capacity pricing allows developers, independent software vendors (ISVs), and enterprises to benefit from lower per-session rates as they roll out embedded analytics and BI to hundreds of thousands of users. In such scenarios, average session consumption […]

Azure – Azure Batch vCPU quota checks are being updated
The vCPU quota checks that are performed during pool operations are being updated to check the dedicated VM series vCPU quotas, in addition to the Batch account total dedicated vCPUs quota that is currently checked. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Storage blob inventory public preview
The Azure Storage blob inventory, which provides an overview of your blob data within a storage account, is now available for public preview in France Central, Canada Central, and Canada East. Read More for the details.

AWS – Introducing AWS Panorama for computer vision at the edge
AWS Panorama is a new machine learning Appliance and SDK, both of which allow organizations to bring computer vision to their on-premises cameras to make automated predictions with high accuracy and low latency. With AWS Panorama, companies can use compute power at the edge (without requiring video streamed to the cloud) to improve their operations, […]

AWS – Amazon Connect Voice ID provides real-time caller authentication for more secure calls
Amazon Connect Voice ID (available in preview) provides real-time caller authentication that makes voice interactions in contact centers more secure and efficient. Voice ID provides an additional security layer that doesn’t rely on the caller answering multiple questions (such as birthdate and mother’s maiden name) and makes it easy to enroll and verify customers without […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB of memory and 6 vCPU cores for Lambda Functions
AWS Lambda customers can now provision Lambda functions with a maximum of 10,240 MB (10 GB) of memory, a more than 3x increase compared to the previous limit of 3,008 MB. This helps workloads like batch, extract, transform, load (ETL) jobs, and media processing applications perform memory intensive operations at scale. Read More for the […]