You can now adapt Amazon Polly’s Text-to-Speech (TTS) voices to the context of your customer conversation. For example, the TTS voice Matthew can be adapted to be more relatable for a welcome prompt and take on a formal persona when informing customers of their bank balance. These speaking styles allow businesses to design more engaging […]

Additional geolocation headers are now available in Amazon CloudFront for use in new cache and origin request policies. You can now configure CloudFront to add additional geolocation headers that provide more granularity in your caching and origin request policies. Previously, you could configure Amazon CloudFront to provide the viewer’s country code in a request header […]

Now, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) allows IAM users to have longer access to their AWS resources when they  Switch Roles in the AWS Management Console.  Read More for the details.

Amazon Detective now enables you to interactively examine your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network flows. This new capability enables you to answer questions such as “what port or network service was in use at that time?”, “were any large data transfers involved?”, “was the traffic allowed by my Security Groups?”. These details help security […]

You can now add tags to your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) resources while creating the resource. These resources are VPCs, Subnets, Network Interfaces, Security Groups, Network ACLs, Route Tables, Internet Gateways, Egress-only Internet Gateways, DHCP Option Sets and VPC Peering Connections.   Read More for the details.

Scale-Out Computing on AWS is an AWS Solutions Implementation that provides customers with a production-ready reference implementation for deploying an AWS environment to start and manage scale-out workloads. This implementation features a large selection of compute resources, budget and cost management integration within AWS, automation tools, and an example user interface. Read More for the […]

Amazon QuickSight now allows customers to embed dashboard authoring capability within third party applications and portals. Customers (e.g., Independent Software Vendors or ISVs, enterprises) can now provide self-service data exploration, ad-hoc data analysis, and dashboard authoring capabilities directly to their end-users. Customers benefit from not having to repeatedly create custom dashboards based on ad-hoc requests […]

The Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) CSI driver is now generally available. The EFS CSI driver makes it simple to configure elastic file storage for both EKS and self-managed Kubernetes clusters running on AWS using standard Kubernetes interfaces. Applications running in Kubernetes can use EFS file systems to share data between pods in a scale-out […]

Amazon RDS for MySQL has been updated to support release 8.0.20 of the MySQL database. This release includes a number of bug fixes as well as functionality improvements.  Read More for the details.