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GCP – All 161 things we announced at Google Cloud Next ‘23 – a recap
This week we hosted Google Cloud Next in San Francisco! It was great to be back together in-person with the Google Cloud community and ecosystem. Highlights included the opening keynote, packed with breakthrough product announcements and customer stories, which you can also watch in just 13 minutes. Also check out the fun and inspirational developer […]

AWS – Amazon AppFlow now supports concurrent processing for data transfers from SAP applications
Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that helps customers securely transfer data between AWS services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications in just a few clicks, now supports concurrent processing and setting configurable page sizes for data transfers from SAP applications to AWS services. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Macie is now available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
You can now use Amazon Macie to discover and help protect sensitive data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Sagemaker Real-time Inference now supports response streaming
Customers can now continuously stream inference responses back to the client when using SageMaker real-time inference to help you build interactive experiences for various generative AI applications such as chatbots, virtual assistants, and music generators. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server lets you stop and start your database instance on demand
Starting today, Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server makes it simple to stop and start your database instances. This lets you save costs by stopping a database instance when it does not need to be running, such as when it is used for development or test purposes. Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is a […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports additional data connectors with JDBC
Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports eight new JDBC connectors for Salesforce, Databricks, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Amazon RDS, and Amazon Aurora. Additionally, importing data from Snowflake without a storage intermediary and OAuth 2.0 connectivity for Salesforce and Snowflake are now supported, enabling customers to seamlessly import data from a variety of sources. SageMaker Canvas is […]

AWS – Amazon Connect now supports Universal International Freephone Numbers
Amazon Connect now has support for two new number types. Universal international freephone numbers (UIFN) allows customers to have a single number that’s free to call for your consumers in 64 countries globally. The addition of UIFN extends the number of inbound countries Amazon Connect can now support to 107. Amazon Connect has also added […]

AWS – AWS Marketplace now supports AWS CloudTrail to improve procurement activity monitoring
AWS Marketplace customers can now view AWS CloudTrail logs to monitor procurement activity for their AWS Marketplace subscriptions (agreements). Customers can view activity logs anytime a user in the AWS Account subscribes or unsubscribes to an AWS Marketplace SaaS, AMI, container, or professional services product. This visibility will provide improved security & governance to account […]

AWS – Amazon Cognito now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions
Amazon Cognito is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Israel (Tel Aviv) regions. Amazon Cognito makes it easy to add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. Amazon Cognito scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity […]
AWS – Amazon Connect outbound campaigns now offers voice dialing with no agents required
Amazon Connect outbound campaigns now supports high-volume outreach with no agents required. A new dial type called “Agentless“ makes it easier to proactively communicate with your customers for use cases such as personalized voice notifications, appointment reminders, or to enable self-service using the Interactive Voice Response (IVR). You may use integrated answering machine detection to […]