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AWS – Amazon Textract launches the ability to detect signatures on any document
Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts printed text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. Textract now provides you the capability to detect handwritten signatures, e-signatures, and initials on documents such as loan application forms, checks, claim forms and more. AnalyzeDocument Signatures reduces the need for human reviewers and helps […]
AWS – AWS X-Ray adds trace linking for event-driven applications built on Amazon SQS and AWS Lambda
AWS X-ray adds support for trace linking, enabling customers to visualize, and debug requests as they travel through event-driven applications built using Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and AWS Lambda. Using trace linking, customers can now see the relationships between services and resources in their event-driven applications leveraging Amazon SQS and AWS Lambda, quickly identify performance bottlenecks, […]
AWS – AWS Glue Crawlers Now Support Snowflake
AWS Glue crawlers now support Snowflake, making it easier for you to understand updates to Snowflake schema and extract meaningful insights. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches admin asset management console
Amazon QuickSight launches an asset management console for administrators. With an interactive UI, administrators can now list and search all account assets regardless of who the owner of these assets are. They can list all the assets a user or group has access to including in a multi-tenant environment. They can perform asset level or bulk […]
AWS – AWS IAM Identity Center now supports session management capabilities for AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) and SDKs
Starting today, AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) customers can manage the session duration (between 15 mins and 7 days) for AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) and SDKs sessions. With this release, when you set access portal session duration for your organization in IAM Identity Center, it also applies to AWS CLI […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight supports NULL in parameter
Amazon QuickSight now fully support NULL in parameter use. Parameter, as a place holder for single value or multi-value variables, is a powerful and widely used entity in QuickSight. Previously, NULL is not supported as a valid value for parameter, which created some discrepancies when user data has NULL value in it. With the full enablement […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now supports configurable Lex timeouts within Chat experience
Amazon Connect Chat now allows you to configure timeouts for chat conversations between a customer and an Amazon Lex chatbot. This enables you to define how long to wait for a response from the customer (e.g. 5 minutes) before the session expires. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon QuickSight Now Supports Connectivity to Databricks
Today, Amazon QuickSight is announcing the general availability of a new connector for QuickSight that will enable customers to natively connect to Databricks. This launch allows you to connect to and visualize data from the Databricks E2 version of the platform. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Add an Azure Cosmos DB custom endpoint in IoT Hub
Azure IoT Hub now supports the ability to setup an Azure Cosmos DB account as a custom endpoint. This will help route device data from IoT Hub to Azure Cosmos DB directly. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Bastion now support shareable links
Shareable links allows users to connect to target resources via Azure Bastion without access to the Azure portal. Read More for the details.