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Azure – Private endpoints for Azure File Sync are now generally available
Starting with Azure File Sync agent 10.1, Azure File Sync supports private endpoints in all public and Azure US Government cloud regions where Azure File Sync is available. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Config Launches 28 Additional Managed rules
AWS Config launched 28 new managed rules today across multiple AWS Regions. Managed Config rules are predefined rules that can help you evaluate whether your AWS resource configurations comply with common best practices. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports confidential workloads through DCSv2 SKUs (private preview)
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports confidential workloads through integration with DCSv2 SKU node pools powered by Intel SGX. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Systems Manager Explorer is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, AWS announces Systems Manager Explorer availability to customers in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region
You can now deploy Amazon AppStream 2.0 in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Deploying AppStream 2.0 in your local region provides users with a more responsive experience and may help support your local data compliance obligations. With this launch, you can deploy General Purpose, Compute Optimized, Memory Optimized, Graphics Pro and Graphics G4 instances […]

AWS – Amazon Keyspaces now enables you to back up your table data continuously by using point-in-time-recovery (PITR)
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now enables you to back up your table data continuously by using point-in-time recovery (PITR). Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Forecast now supports resource tagging
Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses machine learning (ML) to generate accurate forecasts without requiring any prior ML experience. Amazon Forecast can be used in a wide variety of use cases, including product demand forecasting, inventory planning, workforce planning and cloud infrastructure usage forecasting. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Comprehend launches real time Custom Entity Recognition
Amazon Comprehend now supports real time Custom Entity Recognition. You can use the real time Custom Entity Recognition to identify terms that are specific to your domain in real time. For example, you can instantly extract product names, financial entities or any term relevant to you from unstructured text documents. Prior to this launch, Custom […]

AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise is now generally available
Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS IoT SiteWise, a managed service that makes it easy to collect data from your industrial equipment, model your physical assets, processes and facilities, quickly compute common industrial performance metrics, and create fully managed web applications to help analyze industrial equipment data, prevent costly equipment issues, and […]
AWS – AWS IoT Core now supports multiple shadows for a single IoT device
AWS IoT Core is announcing a new feature called named shadow, which allows you to create multiple shadows for a single IoT device. A device’s shadow is a JSON document that is used to store and retrieve state information for a device. Read More for the details.