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AWS – Service Quotas is now available in AWS EU (Milan) and AWS Africa (Cape Town) regions
You can now use Service Quotas in EU (Milan) and Africa (Cape Town) regions to view and manage your service quotas at scale as your AWS workloads grow. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Personalize can now create up to 50% better recommendations for fast changing catalogs of new products and fresh content
Amazon Personalize now makes it easier to create personalized recommendations for fast-changing catalogs of books, movies, music, news articles, and more, improving recommendations by up to 50% (measured by click-through rate) with just a few clicks in the AWS console. Without needing to change any application code, Amazon Personalize enables customers to include completely new […]

AWS – AWS Storage Gateway adds data protection features for Tape Gateway
AWS Storage Gateway now supports Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) and Tape Retention Lock on Tape Gateway virtual tapes, providing you data protection features to meet regulatory compliance. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now generally available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet, and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, is now generally 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 – AWS Migration Hub is now available in the EU (Ireland) & EU (London) Regions
You can now centrally discover, plan, and track your migrations into any commercial AWS region from the Migration Hub in the EU (Ireland) & EU (London) Regions. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Site Recovery update rollup 49 – August 2020
The latest Azure Site Recovery update provides fixes and download links for Site Recovery components. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Policy Compliance Scan Action for GitHub Workflows is in public preview
Trigger on-demand Azure policy compliance scan on Azure resources from GitHub workflows and proceed/fail workflow execution depending on compliance state of resources. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes Preview
The AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) is a new tool that lets you define and use AWS service resources directly from Kubernetes. With ACK, you can take advantage of AWS managed services for your Kubernetes applications without needing to define resources outside of the cluster or run services that provide supporting capabilities like databases or […]

AWS – Amazon Interactive Video Service adds support for playback authorization
Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) now gives you control over who you can watch your live streams. When you want to gate your content, you can use the playback authorization feature to restrict your streams by channel and viewer. Playback authorization manages access to video playlists. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SES now enables customers to bulk import and bulk delete email addresses from the account-level suppression list
Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) customers can now add or remove email addresses in bulk from their account-level suppression list. The account-level suppression list prevents you from sending email to addresses that previously produced a bounce or complaint event. When you configure the account-level suppression list, you specify whether addresses should be added to […]