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AWS – AWS Cloud Map is now available in Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) AWS Regions
AWS Cloud Map is now available in Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) AWS Regions. AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. With AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) tasks, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, […]

AWS – AWS Security Hub launches 9 new security best practice controls
AWS Security Hub has released 9 new controls for its AWS Foundational Security Best Practice standard (FSBP) to enhance your cloud security posture management (CSPM).These controls conduct fully-automatic checks against security best practices for your AWS account settings and for services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon SageMaker, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon […]

AWS – AWS License Manager now supports commercial Linux subscriptions discovery and governance
AWS License Manager announces support for cross-region, cross-account tracking of commercial Linux subscriptions you run on AWS. This includes subscriptions purchased as part of EC2 subscription-included AMIs, on the AWS Marketplace, or brought to AWS via Red Hat Cloud Access Program. You can track subscription usage by number of instances for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, […]

AWS – Amazon Connect now allows contact center managers to join ongoing calls
Amazon Connect now supports barge-in, a contact center capability that enables managers to help agents resolve customer issues quickly and ensure a superior customer experience. Using barge-in, managers can join and participate in an ongoing customer service call between a contact center agent and customer. After joining, a manager can speak with the customer, add […]

AWS – Amazon RDS announces integration with AWS Secrets Manager
Amazon RDS now supports integration with AWS Secrets Manager to streamline how you manage your master user password for your RDS database instances. With this feature, RDS fully manages the master user password and stores it in AWS Secrets Manager whenever your RDS database instances are created, modified, or restored. The new feature supports the […]

AWS – Amazon RDS now supports renaming Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports renaming Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys. The ability to rename the RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys helps you to replace a deployment without having to change any application code that references the deployment by name such as the connection endpoint. Renaming is used when […]

AWS – AWS IoT Core’s Rules Engine adds support for Google Protocol Buffer (Protobuf) messaging format
AWS IoT Core announces the capability to decode Google Protocol Buffer (Protobuf) encoded messages to JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format using the AWS IoT Core Rules Engine, making it easier to use Protobuf directly in your IoT Rule, without the need to invoke a Lambda function to decode the Protobuf message. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS Optimized Writes now supports R6g, and R6gd instances
The Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Optimized writes now supports R6g and R6gd instances. With Optimized Writes you can improve write throughout by up to 2x at no additional cost. This is especially useful for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL customers with write-intensive database workloads, commonly found in applications such as […]

AWS – AWS Batch adds visibility for terminated and cancelled jobs
AWS Batch now enables you to gain visibility into the current state of a terminated or cancelled job. This means that once you terminate/cancel a job, a flag of isTerminated or isCancelled can be observed in the job payload throughout the queue before it moves to either a ‘Terminated’ or ‘Cancelled’ state. Read More for […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now supports Edge Chromium
Today, Amazon Connect announces general availability of Microsoft Edge Chromium browser support. Edge Chromium has grown in popularity and many companies have selected it as their preferred or enterprise-wide standard browser. With this launch, customers now have the option to use the Edge Chromium browser in all regions where Amazon Connect is available. To learn more […]