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AWS – Amazon Kendra releases SharePoint OnPrem Connectors
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra SharePoint OnPrem Connectors (2013, 2016, 2019) and Subscription Edition to index and search messages from SharePoint OnPrem. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Kendra releases Confluence Cloud Connector
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Confluence Cloud Connector to index and search documents from Confluence Cloud. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces security analytics
Amazon OpenSearch Service announces security analytics that provides new threat monitoring, detection, and alerting features. These capabilities help you to detect and investigate potential security threats that may disrupt your business operations or pose a threat to sensitive organizational data. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing cross-account support for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points
Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points now support datasets that are replicated across multiple AWS accounts. Cross-account Multi-Region Access Points simplify object storage access for applications that span both AWS Regions and accounts, avoiding the need for complex request routing logic in your applications. They provide a single global endpoint for your multi-region applications, and dynamically […]

AWS – Amazon S3 simplifies private connectivity from on-premises networks
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) interface endpoints for Amazon S3 now offer private DNS options that can help you more easily route S3 requests to the lowest-cost endpoint in your VPC. With private DNS for S3, your on-premises applications can use AWS PrivateLink to access S3 over an interface endpoint, while requests from your in-VPC applications […]

AWS – AWS Data Exchange for Amazon S3 is now generally available
AWS Data Exchange for Amazon S3 is now generally available, helping customers easily find, subscribe to, and use third-party data files for faster time to insight, storage cost optimization, simplified data licensing management, and more. This feature is intended for subscribers who want to use third-party data files directly from data providers’ Amazon Simple Storage […]

AWS – Introducing Mountpoint for Amazon S3, a high performance open source file client
We are pleased to announce the alpha release of Mountpoint for Amazon S3, a new open source file client that delivers high throughput access, lowering compute costs for data lakes on Amazon S3. Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is a file client that translates local file system API calls to S3 object API calls like GET […]

AWS – Use S3 Object Lambda with Amazon CloudFront to tailor content for end users
Using Amazon S3 Object Lambda, you can add your own code to S3 GET, HEAD, and LIST API requests to modify data as it is returned to an application. You can now use an S3 Object Lambda Access Point alias as an origin for your Amazon CloudFront distribution to tailor or customize data to end […]

Azure – Public preview: Azure Cognitive Service for Vision Powers State-of-the-Art Computer Vision Development
Extract robust insights from images and video content across multiple industry domains Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports local S3 Replication on Outposts
Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports S3 Replication on Outposts. This extends S3’s fully managed approach to replication to S3 on Outposts buckets, helping you meet data residency and data redundancy requirements. With local S3 Replication on Outposts, you can create and configure replication rules to automatically replicate your S3 objects to another Outpost, or […]