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AWS – Amazon Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling is now available in Canada Central
Amazon Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling, a feature of Amazon Connect, helps you to predict, allocate, and verify that the right number of agents are scheduled at the right time to meet your operational goals with minimal overstaffing. Machine learning (ML)–powered capabilities allow you to anticipate contact volume and arrival rates, convert forecasts into […]

AWS – Amazon Neptune is now available in AWS Middle East (UAE) Region
Amazon Neptune is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region on engine versions 1.2.1.0 and later. You can now create Neptune clusters using R5, R5d, R6g, and T3 instance types in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Health now publishes service health events to Amazon EventBridge in primary and backup Regions
AWS Health now publishes service health events to Amazon EventBridge. Previously, you could receive only account-specific events on this channel. Now, you can also receive events about the overall health of AWS services. This enables you to get a full picture of service issues that might affect the performance of your applications. Read More for […]

AWS – Amazon SNS now supports message data protection in five additional regions
You can now use Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) message data protection in five additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Middle East (UAE). Amazon SNS message data protection is a set of capabilities that leverage pattern matching, machine learning models, and content policies to help security and […]

AWS – Amazon SNS now supports FIFO topics in five additional regions
You can now use Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) FIFO topics in five additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Middle East (UAE). You can use Amazon SNS FIFO topics, in combination with Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) FIFO queues, to build applications that require messages to be […]

AWS – Amazon Inspector now allows customers to search its vulnerability intelligence database
Amazon Inspector now allows customers to search its vulnerability intelligence database if any of the Inspector scanning types is activated. With this expanded capability, customers can retrieve the details for any vulnerability stored in Inspector vulnerability database and covered by Inspector’s scanning engine by simply providing a Common Vulnerability and Enumerations (CVE) ID, for example, […]

AWS – Amazon EFS Replication is now available in all AWS Regions
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) Replication is now available in 10 more AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Milan), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), in addition to the 19 AWS Regions and 2 AWS GovCloud (US) Regions […]

GCP – Google Cloud Partners with Code of Support to help veterans & caregivers build cloud computing skills
Today, Code of Support Foundation (COSF) announces a new partnership with Google Cloud to provide complimentary Google Cloud Skills Boost access to 500 veterans and caregivers. This is part of a larger effort to connect those transitioning from military service to careers in cloud computing and technical jobs. COSF operates the national PATRIOTlink® network of […]

Azure – Preview: Cloud Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Palo Alto Networks – an Azure Native ISV Service
The first ISV next-generation firewall service natively integrated in Azure. Read More for the details.
GCP – Introducing Query plan samples for Cloud Spanner: get performance insights from query execution plans
Cloud Spanner is a fully managed relational database that offers near unlimited scale, strong consistency, and industry leading high availability of up to 99.999%. Cloud Spanner also supports both GoogleSQL and PostgreSQL dialects. Providing an excellent troubleshooting experience is one of the most important focus areas for Cloud Spanner. Last year, we launched Query insights, […]