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AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now enables SQL Server Always on deployments in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) regions
AWS Launch Wizard now allows customers to more easily deploy SQL Server Always On workloads in two new AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain). AWS Launch Wizard offers a guided way to size, configure, and deploy AWS resources for SQL Always On applications with an easy to use wizard. It provides […]

AWS – AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter adds CloudWatch graphs for monitoring and simplifies remediation with contextual runbooks
With this update, you can now view Amazon CloudWatch graphs to monitor the health and performance of your AWS resources from OpsCenter, a feature of Systems Manager, without navigating across multiple consoles. OpsCenter enables you to view, investigate, and resolve operational items, also known as OpsItems, for AWS resources. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon FSx is now available in the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region
Amazon FSx, a fully managed service that makes it easy to launch and run feature-rich and highly-performant file systems, is now available in the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. With Amazon FSx, customers can leverage the rich feature sets and fast performance of widely-used open source and commercially-licensed file systems, while avoiding time-consuming administrative […]

AWS – AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports additional encryption, integrity and key exchange algorithms
You can now use additional encryption, integrity, and key exchange algorithms for your VPN connections. These advanced algorithms provide higher security to protect your data, higher performance for faster transfer rates, and help meet compliance requirements. These algorithms are available as tunnel options for new and existing VPN connections and can be accessed through the […]

AWS – Amazon Chime introduces Amazon Voice Focus for noise suppression
Amazon Chime introduces Amazon Voice Focus, deep learning based noise suppression to reduce unwanted noise from meetings. Read More for the details.

AWS – 6 new training courses for Amazon Connect
We are pleased to announce the launch of six free new digital courses to help developers quickly ramp up contact centers using Amazon Connect. These advanced on-demand courses are designed for developers and technical professionals at customer and AWS Partner Network (APN) Partner organizations who work with contact center technologies. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amplify Flutter now available as Developer Preview
The open source Amplify Framework, a suite of libraries and tools for mobile and front-end web developers, now offers support for Flutter developers. Flutter is an open-source UI software development kit created by Google for developing applications for Android and iOS from a single codebase. Today’s Amplify Flutter Developer Preview provides libraries and a CLI […]

AWS – Announcing 3 new courses for APN Partners on IoT and data analytics
Today we are introducing three courses created specifically for our APN Partner community! The first, AWS Solutions Training for Partners: IoT on AWS (Business), is a four-hour classroom course designed for account managers, business owners, and pre-sales representatives at AWS Partner Network (APN) Partner organizations. This intermediate-level course provides an overview of current market trends […]

AWS – Amazon Transcribe now supports speaker labeling for streaming transcription
Amazon Transcribe now supports speaker labeling for streaming transcription. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to convert speech-to-text. In live audio transcription, each stream of audio may contain multiple speakers. Now you can conveniently turn on the ability to label speakers, thus helping to identify who […]
AWS – Amazon Textract is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Textract is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Amazon Textract is a service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents and goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to also identify the contents of fields in forms and information stored in tables. Read More for the details.