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AWS – DeepSeek-R1 is available fully-managed in Amazon Bedrock
DeepSeek-R1 is now available as a fully managed, serverless model in Amazon Bedrock. AWS is the first cloud service provider to deliver DeepSeek-R1 as a fully managed, generally available model. You can power your applications with DeepSeek-R1’s capabilities through Amazon Bedrock’s fully managed service via a single API along with Amazon Bedrock’s tools, allowing your […]
AWS – Amazon Cognito is now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
Amazon Cognito is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. This launch introduces all Amazon Cognito features and tiers: Essentials, Lite, and Plus, allowing customers to use comprehensive and flexible authentication and access control features to implement secure, scalable, and customized sign-up and sign-in experiences for their application within minutes. Cognito allows customers […]
AWS – Amazon Cognito is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US East) Region
Amazon Cognito is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. This launch introduces all Amazon Cognito features and tiers: Essentials, Lite, and Plus, allowing customers to use comprehensive and flexible authentication and access control features to implement secure, scalable, and customized sign-up and sign-in experiences for their application within minutes. Cognito allows customers to […]
AWS – Amazon Cognito introduces Managed Login to support rich branding for end user journeys in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Cognito introduces Managed Login in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, a fully-managed, hosted sign-in and sign-up experience that customers can personalize to align with their company or application branding. Amazon Cognito provides millions of users with secure, scalable, and customizable sign-up and sign-in experiences. With Managed Login, Cognito customers can now use its no-code […]
AWS – Amazon Cognito now supports passwordless authentication for low-friction and secure logins in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, Amazon Cognito announced support for passwordless authentication for low-friction and secure logins in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Amazon Cognito now allows you to secure user access to your applications with passwordless authentication, including sign-in with passkeys, email, and text message. Passkeys are based on FIDO standards and use public key cryptography, which enables […]
AWS – Announcing new feature tiers: Essentials and Plus for Amazon Cognito in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Cognito launches new user pool feature tiers, Essentials and Plus, in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The Essentials tier offers comprehensive and flexible user authentication and access control features, allowing customers to implement secure, scalable, and customized sign-up and sign-in experiences for their application within minutes. It supports password-based log-in, multi-factor authentication (email, SMS, […]
AWS – Amazon EMR on EKS now supports Amazon EKS Pod Identity
Today, Amazon EMR on EKS announces support for Amazon EKS Pod Identity, simplifying the setup of IAM permissions required by EMR on EKS jobs to access other AWS resources. With this launch, you can configure IAM permissions through a single API call, significantly reducing complexity and potential for errors. The new feature also allows you […]
GCP – Introducing tiered storage for Spanner
Today, we are excited to announce fully managed tiered storage for Spanner, a new capability that lets you use larger datasets with Spanner by striking the right balance between cost and performance, while minimizing operational overhead through a simple, easy-to-use, interface. Spanner powers mission-critical operational applications at organizations in financial services, retail, gaming, and many […]
AWS – Amazon Connect broadens global telephony coverage
Amazon Connect announces the expansion of access to industry-leading inbound number availability across 158 countries, national outbound numbers in 72 countries, and global international dialing capabilities from any supported AWS commercial region. This expansion increases telephony coverage by an average of 125% across AWS regions. Organizations can now focus on selecting the ideal location for […]
AWS – AWS WAF Targeted Bot Control is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Starting today, you can use AWS WAF Targeted Bot Control in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS WAF Targeted Bot Control protects applications against sophisticated bots targeting critical enterprise applications like e-commerce and financial services websites. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps you protect your web application resources against common web exploits […]