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AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens now enables supervisors to manage in-progress contacts
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports the ability to transfer, reschedule or end in-progress contacts on the contact details page within the Amazon Connect UI. Today, Amazon Connect Contact Lens enables supervisors to search for and view in-progress and completed contacts across voice, chat and task channels. With this launch, supervisors can perform actions on […]

AWS – You can now generate human-readable sample data with NoSQL Workbench
Prototyping your application’s data model with Amazon DynamoDB has just gotten simpler with sample data generation using NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB. The ability to generate sample data enables you to create realistic demos and test your application access patterns under conditions that closely simulate a production environment. You can use NoSQL Workbench to generate […]

AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports JSON schema validation
Amazon DocumentDB now supports schema validation with $jsonSchema operator. You can now attach schema validation rules to a DocumentDB collection that are validated during inserts and updates to the collection. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon QuickSight now supports freeze/unfreeze columns in Tables
Amazon QuickSight now supports the ability to freeze columns in Tables. Both Authors and Readers can freeze columns to affix columns in place while scrolling horizontally, ensuring it remains visible and accessible even as other columns move out of view. The frozen column is moved left until it reaches another frozen column, maintaining its fixed […]

Azure – General availability: Domain fronting update on Azure Front Door and Azure CDN
Azure Front Door supports the use of different values for the TLS SNI extension and the host header, provided that both values are added as domains in the same Azure subscription. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS IAM Identity Center is now available in the Beijing and Ningxia Regions in China
AWS IAM Identity Center is now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and in the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. With the addition of these regions, IAM Identity Center is now available in 28 regions globally. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor now supports one-time monitoring jobs for quick troubleshooting
You can now use Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor to run a single execution of a monitoring job, enabling you to get results for your machine learning and data performance on demand. Running a monitoring job on-demand provides you the flexibility to monitor specific aspects of your ML as required and allows adaptability for situations with […]

AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports searching for in-progress contacts
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports the ability for contact center managers to search and view in-progress contacts across voice, chat, and task channels within the contact search page in the Amazon Connect UI. Today, managers can search and view completed contacts on the contact search page to monitor contact quality and agent performance. With […]

AWS – Amazon EventBridge Pipes now available in three additional regions
Amazon EventBridge Pipes is now available in the Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) AWS Regions, providing a simpler, consistent, and cost-effective way to create point-to-point integrations between event producers and consumers when building event-driven architectures. You can use Pipes to connect your applications with data from sources including Amazon SQS, Amazon Kinesis […]
GCP – Meet Nuvem, a cable to connect Portugal, Bermuda, and the U.S.
Today, we’re announcing Nuvem, a new transatlantic subsea cable system to connect Portugal, Bermuda, and the United States. Named after the Portuguese word for “cloud,” Nuvem will improve network resiliency across the Atlantic, helping meet growing demand for digital services. The new cable path will add international route diversity and support the development of information […]