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Azure – Long Audio API will be retired on 31 March 2027 – Migrate to the new batch synthesis API
Long Audio API will be retired on March 31, 2027 Read More for the details.

Azure – Migrate your Git Repository to automated deployments with APIOps by 15 March 2025
The Git repository feature in Azure API Management will be retired 15 March 2025 Read More for the details.

Azure – Begin using Azure Monitor–based dashboards in Azure API Management before the built-in analytics dashboards are retired on 15 March 2027
The classic built-in analytics dashboards will be retired on 15 March 2027. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling are now generally available in four additional AWS regions
Amazon Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling are now generally available in Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS regions. These capabilities help you predict, allocate, and verify that the right number of agents are scheduled at the right time to meet your operational goals. Machine learning (ML)–powered capabilities allow […]

AWS – Introducing AWS CodeConnections, formerly known as AWS CodeStar Connections
AWS is renaming AWS CodeStar Connections to AWS CodeConnections. The name change is effective in the APIs, CLI, SDK, and documentation. The AWS Management Console will create connection resources referencing CodeStar Connections till May 1, 2024, and after that it will generate connection resources referencing CodeConnections, to give you time to make changes in your […]

AWS – AWS adds Managed Policies to VSS to help ensure valid application consistent backups
AWS now provides customers with a new AWS managed policy for Microsoft Windows Volume Snapshot Copy Service (VSS) in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2) . With this policy, customers no longer have to configure individual permissions or create their own policies to manage VSS. Customers can simply use this new policy to ensure the necessary permissions […]

AWS – Amazon GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring is now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring. This feature deepens threat detection coverage for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). It gives you visibility into on-host, operating system–level activities and provides container-level context of detected threats. It complements runtime coverage already available for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and […]

AWS – Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now lets you customize prompts and number of retrieval results
We are excited to announce that Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now lets you create custom prompts to have greater control over personalizing the responses generated by the Foundation Model (FM). Additionally, you can configure the number of retrieved passages, which improves accuracy by providing added context to the FM. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Amplify Hosting is generally available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) region
AWS Amplify offers a fully managed web hosting service that accelerates your application release cycle by providing a CI/CD workflow for building and deploying web applications. Simply connect your application’s code repository in the console, and changes to your frontend and backend are deployed in a single workflow on every code commit. Read More for […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector now supports CloudFormation
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector, a fully-managed agentless collector for Prometheus metrics from Amazon EKS workloads, now supports AWS CloudFormation. Starting today, you can easily create, configure, and manage Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collectors using CloudFormation templates. With AWS CloudFormation, you can use a programming language or simple text file to automatically configure […]