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AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports Native Backup/Restore on DB Instances with Read Replicas
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports restoring SQL Server native backups onto DB instances that have read replicas configured. Previously, the read replica would need to be removed before restoring the native backup file onto your Amazon RDS for SQL Server DB instance. SQL Server backup files stored in your Amazon S3 bucket can […]

AWS – Amazon Transcribe announces Channel Identification support for streaming audio
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capability to your applications. Amazon Transcribe now expands support for Channel Identification to streaming audio transcription. With Channel Identification, you can process live audio from multiple channels, and produce a single transcript of the conversation with channel […]

AWS – Audit Logs launch
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers a detailed audit log of all Elasticsearch requests. Audit Logs allows customers to record a trail of all user actions, helping meet compliance regulations, improving the overall security posture and providing evidence for security investigations. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing Aurora Parallel Query region expansion and MySQL 5.7 compatibility
Amazon Aurora Parallel Query is now available with MySQL 5.7 compatibility. Parallel Query provides faster analytical queries over your transactional data, speeding up your queries by up to 2 orders of magnitude, while maintaining high throughput for your core transactional workload. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Blob storage lifecycle management now supports append blobs
In addition to supporting block blobs, Azure Blob storage lifecycle management now offers a rich, rule-based policy to manage the retention of your append blobs. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon API Gateway now supports mutual TLS authentication
Amazon API Gateway now supports mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication. Customers can now enable mTLS on custom domain names for regional REST and HTTP APIs at no additional cost. Mutual TLS enhances the security of your API and helps protect your data from attacks such as client spoofing or man-in-the middle attacks. Read More for […]

AWS – AWS Lambda adds console support for visualizing AWS Step Functions workflows
You can now view AWS Step Functions workflows in your AWS Lambda console, making it easier to orchestrate Lambda functions into business critical applications. Read More for the details.

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 […]