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AWS – Amazon Connect launches search APIs for three more resources
Amazon Connect now provides APIs to search for three additional resources in your Amazon Connect instance: prompts, quick connects and hours of operation. These new APIs provide a programmatic and flexible way to search by name, resource ID, description, or tags. For example, you can now search for quick connects with “finance” in the description, […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge Archive and Replay now in additional regions
Amazon EventBridge Archive and Replay is now available in the Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) AWS Regions, making event-driven applications more durable and extensible by providing an easier way to replay past events. Archive and Replay enables you to build applications that can more easily recover from errors and also allows you […]
AWS – Amazon EMR supports price-capacity-optimized allocation strategy for EC2 Spot Instances
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon EMR now supports the price-capacity-optimized allocation strategy for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances for clusters launched with Instance Fleets. Allocation strategies let you determine how EMR selects from your specified instance types and Availability Zones to fulfill your desired capacity. Price-capacity-optimized allocation strategy makes Spot allocation decisions based […]
Azure – Generally available: Azure OpenAI Service in UK South
Azure OpenAI Service is now available in the UK South region. UK South supports two of our most advanced models gpt-35-turbo, and gpt4 at launch. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Transfer Family announces quantum-safe key exchange for SFTP
AWS Transfer Family now supports quantum-safe public-key exchange for SFTP file transfers. Quantum-safe public-key exchange helps protect your file transfers from threats such as “harvest now, decrypt later“ attacks that record present day traffic for decrypting once cryptographically relevant quantum computers become available. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 R6id instances are now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6id instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore), and Europe (London) regions. These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Front Door upgrade from standard to premium
Upgrade from standard to premium for enhanced Web Application Firewall rules and private connectivity to your origins using Private Link. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Front Door Migration from classic to standard/premium
Azure Front Door Standard/Premium is the new Azure native, modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) catering to both dynamic and static content delivery acceleration with enhanced security and a simple and predictable pricing model. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere version 23.05 is delayed to 20 June, and the updated OS has been issued to Retail Eval
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides seven days for backward compatibility testing. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS announces AWS Payment Cryptography
Today, AWS is announcing a new service, AWS Payment Cryptography. This service simplifies your implementation of cryptography operations used to secure data in payment processing applications for debit, credit, and stored-value cards in accordance with various payment card industry (PCI), network, and American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards and rules. Financial service providers and processors […]