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AWS – AWS Controllers for Kubernetes for AWS Private CA now generally available
AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) service controller for AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) has graduated to generally available status. By using ACK service controller for AWS Private CA, customers can now provision and manage AWS Private CA certificate authorities (CAs) and private certificates directly from Kubernetes. You can use private certificates to secure […]

AWS – Announcing business planning feature in AWS Partner Central
AWS Partner Central is launching a business planning feature to help AWS Partners create successful partnerships and accelerate co-sell with AWS. Currently, Partners have multiple touchpoints, conversations, and emails with AWS Partner management and sales teams as part of business planning exercises. AWS is making this collaboration easier and more efficient by centralizing the business […]

AWS – AWS End User Messaging announces integration with Amazon EventBridge
Today, AWS End User Messaging announces an integration with Amazon EventBridge. AWS End User Messaging provides developers with a scalable and cost-effective messaging infrastructure without compromising the safety, security, or results of their communications. Now your SMS, MMS and voice delivery events which contain information like the status of the message, price, and carrier information […]

AWS – Amazon Connect offers new personalized and proactive engagement capabilities
Amazon Connect now offers a set of new capabilities to help you proactively address customer needs before they become potential issues, enabling better customer outcomes. You can initiate proactive outbound communications for real-time service updates, promotional offers, product usage tips, and appointment reminders at just the right moments throughout your customer’s experience from the right […]

AWS – AWS End User Messaging launches message feedback tracking
Today, AWS End User Messaging now allows you to track feedback for messages sent through the SMS, and MMS channel. AWS End User Messaging provides developers with a scalable and cost-effective messaging infrastructure without compromising the safety, security, or results of their communications. For each SMS and MMS you send, you can now track message […]

AWS – AWS End User Messaging introduces phone number block/allow rules
Today, AWS End User Messaging expands SMS protect capabilities with phone number rules. With phone number rules, you can explicitly block or allow messages to individual phone numbers overriding your country rule settings. You can use the new rules to fine tune your messaging strategy. For instance, you can use “block” rules to stop sending […]

AWS – AWS End User Messaging announces cost allocation tags for SMS
Today, AWS End User Messaging announces cost allocation tags for SMS resources, allowing you to track spend for each tag associated with a resource. AWS End User Messaging provides developers with a scalable and cost-effective messaging infrastructure without compromising the safety, security, or results of their communications. You can now assign a tag to each […]

AWS – Self-service capacity management for AWS Outposts
AWS Outposts now supports self-service capacity management making it easy for you to view and manage compute capacity on your Outposts. Outposts brings native AWS services, infrastructure, and operating models to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility by providing the same services, tools, and partner solutions with EC2 on premises. Customers have […]

AWS – Amazon Q generative SQL in Amazon Redshift Query Editor now available in additional AWS regions
Amazon Q generative SQL in Amazon Redshift Query Editor is available in AWS South America (Sao Paulo), Europe (London), and Canada (Central) regions. Amazon Q generative SQL is available in Amazon Redshift Query Editor, an out-of-the-box web-based SQL editor for Amazon Redshift, to simplify SQL query authoring and increase your productivity by allowing you to […]
AWS – Easily troubleshoot NodeJS applications with Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals
Today, AWS announces the general availability of NodeJS applications monitoring on Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals, an OpenTelemetry (OTel) compatible application performance monitoring (APM) feature in CloudWatch. Application Signals simplifies the process of automatically tracking application performance against key business or service level objectives (SLOs) for AWS applications. Service operators can access a pre-built, standardized dashboard […]