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AWS – Amazon Connect Cases is now generally available
Amazon Connect Cases provides built-in case management capabilities that make it easy for your contact center agents to create, collaborate on, and quickly resolve customer issues that require multiple customer conversations and follow-up tasks, all without having to build custom applications or integrate with third-party products. Cases provides your agents with a unified timeline view […]

AWS – Announcing new development library for building AWS IoT TwinMaker web applications
We’re pleased to announce that AWS IoT TwinMaker has released a new Application Kit that will help IoT application developers build customized web applications for their digital twins. This Application Kit is a part of the open-source UI components library for IoT application developers – AWS IoT Application Kit. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) Version 21.2
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle now supports version 21.2 of Oracle Application Express (APEX) for all Oracle Database versions. Using APEX, developers can build applications entirely within their web browser. To learn more about the latest features of APEX 21.2, please refer to Oracle’s documentation. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon FSx for OpenZFS is now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Europe (Stockholm) Regions
You can now launch Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems in four additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Europe (Stockholm). Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Security Hub launches announcements notification topic in AWS GovCloud (US)
AWS Security Hub now publishes announcements through Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) in AWS GovCloud (US), helping you stay up to date with the latest feature releases and announcements. To receive announcements about new AWS Security Hub features, subscribe to the AWS Security Hub SNS topic in your preferred Region. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Smart tiering to vault-archive tier for Azure Backup
You can now configure your backup policy to move all your eligible and recommended recovery points to vault-archive tier for Azure Virtual Machines, SQL Server/SAP HANA in Azure Virtual Machines. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Machine Learning—Public preview updates for September 2022
Includes the ability to control access to sensitive data, the capability to contrast differences to assess their performance, and the functionality to stop idle compute instances automatically. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Machine Learning—General availability updates for September 2022
New features include the ability to establish event-driven notifications and the capability to label data in text documents using text named-identity recognition. Read More for the details.

GCP – Building reusable Machine Learning workflows with Pipeline Templates
One of the best ways to share, reuse, and scale your ML workflows is to run them as pipelines. To maximize their value, it’s important to build these pipelines in such a way that you can easily reproduce runs that produce similar results, as described in the paper “Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems”. […]
GCP – Google announces new Health Equity Research Initiative to mitigate health disparities
Google is committed to helping everyone, everywhere be healthier. As part of the global health equity community, we have an opportunity to ensure our products, services, and research help everyone live healthier lives. From connecting people to the care they need to advancing new tools to analyze health data, we aim to accelerate health equity […]