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AWS – Amazon Detective is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) & Europe (Milan) Regions
Amazon Detective is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) & Europe (Milan) regions. You can now easily analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities in these regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS IoT SDK for embedded C version 202009.00 now available with refactored MQTT, JSON, and AWS IoT device shadow libraries
AWS IoT Device SDK for Embedded C (C-SDK) version 202009.00 is now available with refactored MQTT, JSON, and AWS IoT Device Shadow libraries optimized for memory usage and modularity, and it includes dependent libraries added via GitHub submoduling. The refactored libraries have gone through code quality checks including for GNU Complexity, MISRA coding standard, Coverity […]

AWS – Amazon Connect launches API to configure routing profiles programmatically
Amazon Connect now provides an API to manage routing profiles in an instance. Using this API, you can programmatically create new routing profiles or update existing routing profiles to adapt to changing traffic patterns in your contact center. For example, you can automatically adjust queue priorities when there are spikes in contact volumes to prioritize […]

AWS – Data Lifecycle Manager now supports multiple schedules within in a single lifecycle policy
You can now provide multiple creation and retention schedules for your EBS Snapshots within a single Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) policy. Multiple schedule support enables you to create Daily, Weekly and Monthly snapshots for your target volumes from the same DLM policy, reducing the setup time and making it easier to manage DLM policies. Read […]

AWS – Amazon Detective introduces IAM Role Session Analysis
Amazon Detective now analyzes IAM role sessions so that you can visualize and understand the actions that users and apps have performed using assumed roles. With this new capability, Detective enables you to answer questions such as “which federated user invoked APIs that are associated with a security finding?”, “what API calls did a user […]

AWS – Amazon Athena is now available in the AWS Europe (Milan) region
Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Connect launches APIs that list prompts within your instance
You can now programmatically list all prompts in your instance, enabling you to automate recurring processes that are manual. For example, you can identify the prompts that need to be rerecorded with a new voice actor or replicated in a new language, or automatically resolve prompt ARNs between your development, staging, and production environments, saving […]

AWS – Amazon Connect launches contact flow management APIs
You can now create, describe, update, and publish contact flows via API. Contact-center administrators can now programmatically configure and test their contact flows, accelerating the time and effort to deploy changes and minimizing avoidable errors. With these flow APIs, you can automate the progression of contact flows between your development, staging, and production environments. To […]

Azure – Azure API Management updates- September 2020
Regular Azure API Management service updates including new features, bug fixes, changes and other improvements. Read More for the details.
GCP – Tips and tricks for using new RegEx support in Cloud Logging
One of the most frequent questions customers ask is “how do I find this in my logs?”—often followed by a request to use regular expressions in addition to our logging query language. We’re delighted to announce that we recently added support for regular expressions to our query language — now you can search through your […]