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Azure – Azure Site Recovery update rollup 48—July 2020
The latest Azure Site Recovery updates provide fixes and download links for Site Recovery components. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Data Explorer—Allocate resources automatically for Azure Blob Storage data connection
Use the new automatic resource allocation feature to define a data connection from any Azure Storage to Azure Data Explorer database. Read More for the details.
Azure – How to start with Azure Data Explorer—A new online course
A new online course that offers a comprehensive overview of data analytics with Azure Data Explorer is now available for free. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect supports speaking styles with neural Text-to-Speech voices
You can now adapt Amazon Polly’s Text-to-Speech (TTS) voices to the context of your customer conversation. For example, the TTS voice Matthew can be adapted to be more relatable for a welcome prompt and take on a formal persona when informing customers of their bank balance. These speaking styles allow businesses to design more engaging […]
AWS – Amazon CloudFront adds additional geolocation headers for more granular geotargeting
Additional geolocation headers are now available in Amazon CloudFront for use in new cache and origin request policies. You can now configure CloudFront to add additional geolocation headers that provide more granularity in your caching and origin request policies. Previously, you could configure Amazon CloudFront to provide the viewer’s country code in a request header […]
AWS – Now gain longer access to your AWS resources when switching roles in the AWS Management Console
Now, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) allows IAM users to have longer access to their AWS resources when they Switch Roles in the AWS Management Console. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Detective enhances VPC flow visibility
Amazon Detective now enables you to interactively examine your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network flows. This new capability enables you to answer questions such as “what port or network service was in use at that time?”, “were any large data transfers involved?”, “was the traffic allowed by my Security Groups?”. These details help security […]
AWS – Amazon VPC Resources Now Support Tag on Create
You can now add tags to your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) resources while creating the resource. These resources are VPCs, Subnets, Network Interfaces, Security Groups, Network ACLs, Route Tables, Internet Gateways, Egress-only Internet Gateways, DHCP Option Sets and VPC Peering Connections. Read More for the details.
AWS – Scale-Out Computing on AWS with REST API, finer-grained job management capabilities, and enhanced web interface
Scale-Out Computing on AWS is an AWS Solutions Implementation that provides customers with a production-ready reference implementation for deploying an AWS environment to start and manage scale-out workloads. This implementation features a large selection of compute resources, budget and cost management integration within AWS, automation tools, and an example user interface. Read More for the […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight adds embedded authoring, namespaces for multi-tenancy, and more
Amazon QuickSight now allows customers to embed dashboard authoring capability within third party applications and portals. Customers (e.g., Independent Software Vendors or ISVs, enterprises) can now provide self-service data exploration, ad-hoc data analysis, and dashboard authoring capabilities directly to their end-users. Customers benefit from not having to repeatedly create custom dashboards based on ad-hoc requests […]