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AWS – Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations are now available in the AWS Local Zones in Los Angeles
Starting today, Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations are now available in the AWS Local Zones in Los Angeles (LA), California. With On-Demand Capacity Reservations support for AWS Local Zones, customers can now reserve capacity for their Amazon EC2 instances for any duration. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Transfer Family is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Transfer Family is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Transfer Family provides fully managed support for Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol over SSL (FTPS), and FTP directly into and out of Amazon S3. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Processing now supports built-in Spark containers for big data processing
We’re excited to announce Amazon SageMaker now supports Apache Spark as a pre-built big data processing container. You can now use this container with Amazon SageMaker Processing and take advantage of a fully managed Spark environment for data processing or feature engineering workloads. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Resource Groups is now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet, and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
Starting today, AWS Resource Groups is now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Pinpoint launches Event-Triggered Journeys
On September 30th, 2020, Amazon Pinpoint announced that customers can now trigger journeys based on an event generated by a user or endpoint. Journeys are multi-step campaigns that can be executed across channels like SMS, email, or push. Previously, journeys could only be triggered from a segment of your customers who shared the same attributes. […]

AWS – AWS Marketplace enables ISV self-service authorization of Consulting Partners
Today, AWS Marketplace announced that Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) can now use the self-service AWS Marketplace Management Portal to authorize their preferred consulting partners to resell their software to AWS Marketplace buyers. This launch enables ISVs and consulting partners to work together more efficiently to create a Consulting Partner Private Offer (CPPO), which allows customers […]

AWS – AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority is now available in the AWS Europe (Milan) and AWS Africa (Cape Town) regions
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) is now available in the AWS Europe (Milan) and AWS Africa (Cape Town) regions. This regional expansion extends the availability of ACM PrivateCA across the globe, increasing the number of regions to 22, including AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Centralized WAF and VPC Security Group Management Solution is Generally Available
We’re excited to announce the launch of the AWS Centralized WAF and VPC Security Group Management solution, a reference implementation that makes it easier to centrally configure, manage, and audit firewall rules across your accounts and applications in AWS Organizations. The solution uses AWS Firewall Manager to automatically deploy a set of Managed Rules for […]

Azure – Authenticate Azure Stream Analytics to Azure Synapse Analytics using managed identities (preview)
To support Azure customers’ need for a more secure streaming data pipelines, Azure Stream Analytics now supports managed identity authentication with SQL pool tables Azure Synapse Analytics. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Security Center—News and updates for September 2020
New enhancements and updates that were made to Azure Security Center in September 2020. Read More for the details.