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AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches scheduling and alerts in embedded dashboards
Amazon QuickSight launches support for threshold alerts and scheduling in embedded dashboards for registered users. Users viewing embedded QuickSight dashboards can now define data thresholds and receive email notifications when their data exceeds them. They can also view and manage alerts at anytime in embedded dashboard. QuickSight admins can customize how the alerts emails notification […]

AWS – Amazon Q Developer is now generally available in Amazon OpenSearch Service
Amazon Q Developer is now generally available in Amazon OpenSearch Service, providing a set of AI-assisted features that expedite operational analytics and investigation processes. This release introduces five key AI-assisted features: visualization generation using natural language, intelligent alert summarization with one-step data exploration, query result summary in the Discover page, recommended anomaly detectors, and a dedicated Amazon […]

AWS – AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports retrieving secrets and configuration from AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Systems Manager
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now enables customers to reference AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store parameters and AWS Secrets Manager secrets in environment variables. This new integration provides developers with a native method for accessing data from these services in their application. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that provides the ability to deploy and manage applications […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports configurable cipher suites
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports modifying the ssl_ciphers parameter. SSL Ciphers (or cipher suites) are combinations of algorithms used to secure network connections between a client and server. They handle key exchange, authentication, encryption, and message integrity verification to ensure secure and confidential communication. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 16.1 and later […]

AWS – AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) customers can now use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses, via our new dual-stack endpoints to create and manage RAM resource shares in your accounts. The existing RAM endpoints supporting IPv4 will remain available for backwards compatibility. The new dual-stack domains are available either from the internet or from […]

AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens now lets you enable or disable sentiment analysis
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now lets you enable or disable sentiment analysis. This provides organizations with control over sentiment analysis, particularly for those needing to meet compliance obligations, while maintaining access to other Contact Lens conversational analytics capabilities including transcripts, generative AI summaries, and other conversational insights. For example, you may want to enable sentiment […]

AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) supports Multi-Region Replication in Africa (Cape Town) Region
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that offers 99.999% availability. Today, Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) supports Multi-Region Replication in the Africa (Cape Town) Region. With this expansion, customers can now replicate their Keyspaces data to and from the Cape Town Region, enabling […]

AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides AI-powered contact summarization in 2 additional regions
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides generative AI-powered post-contact summaries in two additional regions, Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Seoul). With this launch, you can summarize long customer conversations into succinct, coherent, and context rich contact summaries (e.g., “The customer didn’t receive a reimbursement for a last minute flight cancellation and the agent didn’t offer […]

AWS – AWS adds Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for card registration in Japan
AWS has enabled Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for card registration in Japan to enhance payment security. Customers will need to perform MFA when registering new cards at sign-up or the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console. MFA provides an extra layer of security during card registration, helping protect customers against credit card fraud. This implementation supports […]
AWS – Announcing the Developer Preview for AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift
The AWS IoT Device SDK team is introducing the Developer Preview for IoT Device SDK for Swift that enables developers to build Internet of Things (IoT) applications to run on Linux, macOS, iOS, and tvOS platforms. This SDK provides an idiomatic interface for iOS mobile developers to build their applications in the modern Swift language […]