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AWS – AWS WAF now supports URI path aggregation key for rate-based rules
AWS WAF now supports URI path as an aggregation key for rate-based rules, providing customers with enhanced control and simplicity in managing request rates for URI paths. With this feature, customers can track request rates for any URI path and apply rule actions based on the number of requests received. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Connect Cases now provides case assignment
Amazon Connect Cases now enables agents to easily associate a case with a queue or an individual agent for resolution. Agents can view and filter cases assigned to their queue and managers can directly assign cases to individual agents. Case assignment helps companies’ service and support teams work more efficiently and reduce time to resolve […]

AWS – Amazon SNS can now deliver mobile push notifications in twelve new regions
Customers who use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) for sending mobile push notifications can now host their applications in twelve additional AWS regions, including Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Canada (Central), Europe (London), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), and US […]

Azure – Windows Server end-of-support (EOS): Upgrade seamlessly with Azure Migrate (Public preview)
With Azure Migrate, seamlessly upgrade legacy Windows servers while migrating to Azure, minimizing effort, downtime, and risk. By creating a copy of the server in Azure and performing the upgrade there, the impact on the original server is minimized, ensuring a secure and efficient transition. Read More for the details.

GCP – Democratizing geospatial data to drive sustainable practices across industries
Geospatial data is transforming how municipalities, farmers, energy companies, and many other organizations operate. This data contains information about the earth over a certain period of time, which means organizations can better understand change. This increasingly fuels efficiency and effectiveness programs across a variety of industries. This data is extremely valuable, but organizations have long […]

GCP – Firestore extends triggering support to include Datastore Mode
Starting today, Firestore is adding database triggering support for Firestore in Datastore Mode. This functionality builds upon the recently launched Firestore and Eventarc trigger integration, which was previously available only to Firestore in Native Mode customers. Firestore’s Eventarc trigger integration enables the set up of a change data capture system, which is commonly utilized to […]

GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Early July 2023
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for July 2023. Today, I’ll be asking my colleague Royal Hansen, vice president of Privacy, Safety, and Security Engineering at Google, about AI, security, and risk topics. This year has been a banner year for artificial intelligence (AI), and especially for AI and security. There’s been a huge […]

GCP – Introducing Application Integration: Connect your applications visually, without code
According to a recent Accenture report, large businesses deploy an average of 500 different applications. This trend shows no signs of slowing down, with the majority of respondents signaling plans to acquire even more applications. No surprise, all these applications present a number of integration challenges, which the impending wave of generative AI in software […]

AWS – Amazon Managed Grafana now supports in-place update for version 9.4
Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service for Grafana, a popular open-source analytics platform that enables you to query, visualize, and alert on your metrics, logs, and traces. With this feature, you can now upgrade your existing workspaces from version 8.4 to 9.4. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Translate enables real time translation of Docx files
Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Today, we are enabling real time translation of Docx files. With this launch, Real Time Document Translation can synchronously translate HTML, TXT and Docx files, while preserving the source document format. Customers can use the API via SDK, […]