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AWS – AWS Glue now available in 2 new regions
We are happy to announce that AWS Glue, a serverless data integration service, is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.11
AWS Lambda now supports creating serverless applications using Python 3.11. Developers can use Python 3.11 as both a managed runtime and a container base image, and AWS will automatically apply updates to the managed runtime and base image as they become available. You can use Python 3.11 with Lambda@Edge, allowing you to customize low-latency content […]

AWS – Amazon EMR Serverless now supports retrieving secrets from AWS Secrets Manager
We are happy to announce that starting today, you can now retrieve secrets from AWS Secrets Manager on Amazon EMR Serverless from your Spark and Hive jobs. Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option that makes it easy for data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark and […]

AWS – Amazon GameLift expands SDK support for Unity based game developers
We are excited to announce that Amazon GameLift now supports both the .NET Standard and .NET Framework profiles in Unity with the latest update to the Amazon GameLift Server SDK. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed service that allows developers to quickly manage and scale dedicated game servers for multiplayer games. With this release, Amazon […]

AWS – Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports rule-based identity resolution
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports rule-based identity resolution to match and merge similar profiles, helping companies maintain accurate customer information and deliver more personalized customer interactions via agents and automated experiences. Read More for the details.

GCP – Measuring your sustainability initiative for success
There’s plenty of truth in the saying, “you can’t manage what you don’t measure.” Careful and accurate measurement is what distinguishes effective environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs from initiatives that waste resources, at best, and expose your organization to accusations of greenwashing, at worst. Knowing where you stand is the first step in understanding […]

AWS – AWS SimSpace Weaver now supports multiple spatial domains per simulation
We’re excited to announce that developers can now launch simulations with multiple spatial domains to separate different types of simulation logic and better allocate compute resources. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon ECS console now has enhanced support for task definition workflows
Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) improved the console experience for task definitions workflows. Customers can now use a single page layout to create new and revised task definitions, and also to configure functionality such as container log routing, firelens, container health checks, and more. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Health now supports delegated administrator
AWS Health announces support for delegated administrator, a feature of AWS Organizations that allows you to delegate an account other than the management account to view aggregated AWS Health events on the AWS Health Dashboard or programmatically via AWS Health API. AWS Health is the authoritative source of information about service events and planned changes […]
AWS – AWS SimSpace Weaver now supports custom container images and new clock
We’re excited to announce the release of two new AWS SimSpace Weaver features. Read More for the details.