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AWS – Amazon Connect outbound campaigns supports ring time configuration for unanswered calls
Amazon Connect outbound campaigns now offers campaign managers the ability to configure how long voice calls should ring—between a range of 15 and 60 seconds—before marking a call as “no answer” and moving to the next contact. Each contact also records when ringing began and ended for precise reporting and traceability. When ring duration is […]
AWS – AWS IAM enables identity federation to external services using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs)
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) announces outbound identity federation, enabling customers to securely federate their AWS identities to external services using short-lived JSON Web Tokens (JWTs). This allows customers to securely authenticate their AWS workloads with third-party cloud providers, SaaS providers, and self-hosted applications without using long-term credentials or implementing complex workarounds. Customers can […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports backup and restore through the AWS Management Console
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports backup and restore through the AWS Management Console. OpenSearch Serverless automatically backs up all collections and indexes in your account every hour and retains backups for 14 days. You can restore backups using either the API or the AWS Console. This feature is enabled by default and requires no configuration. […]
AWS – AWS Channel Partners can now resell using Billing Transfer
AWS Channel Partners who are part of AWS Solution Provider or Distribution program can now resell AWS services using Billing Transfer. Billing Transfer enables Partners to assume financial responsibility for customer AWS Organizations while customers retain full control of their management accounts. Using Billing Transfer with AWS Partner Central channel management, Partners receive eligible program […]
AWS – Get Invoice PDF API is now generally available.
Today, AWS announces the general availability of the Get Invoice PDF API, enabling customers to programmatically download AWS invoices via SDK calls. Customers can retrieve individual invoice PDF artifacts by invoking API calls with AWS Invoice ID as input and receives pre-signed Amazon S3 URL for immediate download of AWS invoice and supplemental documents in […]
AWS – Amazon Inspector supports organization-wide management through AWS Organizations policies
Amazon Inspector can now be enabled, configured and managed across your organization using AWS Org policies. With this new capability, you can centrally configure and manage scan types—such as Amazon EC2 scanning, ECR scanning, Lambda standard and Code Scanning, and Code Security — across all the accounts in your organization, selected organizational units (OUs), or […]
AWS – AWS NAT Gateway now supports regional availability
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces regional availability mode for NAT Gateways. With this launch, you can create a single NAT Gateway that automatically expands and contracts across availability zones (AZs) in your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) based on your workload presence, to maintain high availability while offering simplified setup and management. A NAT Gateway enables […]
GCP – Iceberg REST Catalog now supported in BigLake metastore (GA) for open data interoperability
Today, many organizations are moving towards lakehouse architectures to have a single copy of their data and use multiple engines for different workloads — without having to copy or move the data. However, managing a data lakehouse can be complex, often requiring custom pipelines that are hard to operate and that aren’t interoperable between query […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Phil Venables on CISO 2.0 and the CISO factory
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for November 2025. Today, Phil Venables, Google Cloud’s current strategic security advisor and former CISO, and creator of this newsletter, shares his thoughts on how the role of the CISO is evolving in the AI era, and how organizations should shift their cybersecurity approach from fire stations to […]
AWS – Savings Plans and Reserved Instances Group Sharing is now generally available
AWS today announced the general availability of Reserved Instances and Savings Plans (RISP) Group Sharing, a new Billing and Cost Management feature that gives customers granular control over how AWS commitments are shared across their organization. This capability allows customers to define how Reserved Instances and Savings Plans benefits are distributed among specific groups of […]