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AWS – AWS App2Container now supports authenticated Windows applications deployment to EKS and Custom AWS Profiles
AWS App2Container (A2C) is a command-line tool for modernizing .NET and Java applications into containerized applications. A2C analyzes and builds an inventory of all applications running in virtual machines, on-premises or in the cloud. You simply select the application you want to containerize, and A2C packages the application artifact and identified dependencies into container images, […]

AWS – Encrypt your data in AWS IoT SiteWise with your own encryption key
AWS IoT SiteWise is a managed service that makes it easy to collect, store, organize and monitor data from industrial equipment at scale to help you make better, data-driven decisions. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Toolkit for JetBrains IDEs Announces new features for SQS and CloudWatch Logs Insights
The AWS Toolkit for JetBrains now provides convenient IDE functionality to interact with SQS queues and search through CloudWatch Logs. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Step Functions now supports Synchronous Express Workflows
AWS Step Functions now supports the synchronous executions of Express Workflows, allowing you to easily build web-based applications and orchestrate high-volume, short-duration microservices. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EventBridge adds Server-Side Encryption (SSE) and increases default quotas
Amazon EventBridge now provides Server-Side Encryption (SSE) using AWS Owned Keys for protection of sensitive data. SSE is enabled by default and lets you transmit sensitive data more securely with EventBridge. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Cognito is now available in the South America (Sao Paulo) and US West (N. California) Regions
Amazon Cognito is now available in the South America (Sao Paulo) and US West (N. California) Regions. Amazon Cognito is the easiest way to add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. Amazon Cognito scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers, such as Apple, Facebook, Google, […]

AWS – Introducing Location-Based Notifications Using Amazon Pinpoint
Location-Based Notifications Using Amazon Pinpoint is a new AWS Solutions Implementation that helps you easily add a new geographic dimension to personalized and targeted messaging for end users. Personalized customer engagements can be time-consuming, cumbersome, and expensive. This solution reduces that heavy-lifting by configuring and provisioning a reference architecture. The solution leverages Amazon Pinpoint and […]

AWS – Amazon Transcribe now supports Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese and Korean and 3 corresponding AWS regions for streaming transcription
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Today, we are excited to launch Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese and Korean language support for Transcribe streaming. To deliver streaming transcriptions with low latency for these languages, we are also announcing availability of Amazon […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports canary scripts in Python with Selenium framework
CloudWatch Synthetics now supports canary scripts in Python programming language with the Selenium open source web automation testing framework. This gives you more choice in the programming language and framework to use when creating canaries in CloudWatch Synthetics. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS announces the launch of Amazon Comprehend Events
AWS now offers Amazon Comprehend Events, which extracts real world events and the associated arguments from text documents. For example, consider a news article that announces that Amazon acquired WholeFoods Market. Comprehend Events will identify the event as an ‘acquisition’ and detect the acquirer (Amazon), acquiree (WholeFoods Market), the deal amount and the date and […]