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AWS – Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region
Customers can now create file systems using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public Preview: Jobs API to support bulk import in Azure Digital Twins
Public preview for bulk import support for Azure Digital Twins Read More for the details.

AWS – Request tracing for customizations now available for AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform
AWS Control Tower now provides you with the ability to trace a customization request through the entire AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) workflow. With AFT, Terraform customers can automate the creation of fully functional accounts that grant them access to all the resources they need to be productive. This feature enhancement allows […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 X2iedn instances now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) region
Starting today, memory optimized Amazon EC2 X2iedn instances are available in Asia-Pacific(Osaka) region. X2iedn instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and delivers improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous generation X1e instances. X2iedn instances have a memory to vCPU ratio of 32:1 and are […]

AWS – Amazon Managed Grafana now supports network access control
Amazon Managed Grafana now supports inbound network access control that helps you to restrict user access to your Grafana workspaces. Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service for Grafana, a popular open-source analytics platform that enables you to query, visualize, and alert on your metrics, logs, and traces. With this launch, you have granular […]

AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for Amazon DynamoDB now supports AWS CloudFormation for Global Tables
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for Amazon DynamoDB now supports AWS CloudFormation for DynamoDB global tables, which means you can enable streaming to an Amazon Kinesis data stream on your DynamoDB global tables with CloudFormation templates. By streaming your DynamoDB data changes to a Kinesis data stream, you can build advanced streaming applications with Amazon Kinesis […]

AWS – Amazon Cognito identity pool data events are now available in AWS CloudTrail
Amazon Cognito identity pools now publishes data events to AWS CloudTrail logs. Customers now have greater visibility into access-related activities for both guest and authenticated users of their applications. Administrators can now configure Amazon CloudWatch Alarms to monitor specific activity on Amazon Cognito identity pools and react based on automated workflows. Customers can record data […]

AWS – Amazon Pinpoint now supports SMS and voice spending metrics in Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon Pinpoint now helps customers determine the amount spent for SMS and voice activity during the current month by providing visibility to SMS and voice spend metrics through the Amazon CloudWatch console. Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service for AWS cloud resources that you can use to collect and track metrics, collect and monitor log […]

AWS – AWS WAF Captcha adds support for ten additional languages
AWS WAF Captcha helps block unwanted bot traffic by requiring users to successfully complete challenges before their web requests are allowed to reach AWS WAF-protected resources. WAF Captcha challenges are simple for humans while remaining effective against bots. Starting today, AWS WAF Captcha is adding ten additional languages – Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, […]
AWS – AWS WAF Fraud Control – Account Takeover Protection now allows inspection of origin responses
AWS WAF Fraud Control – Account Takeover Protection (ATP) can now inspect origin responses, giving customers additional protection against brute force and credential stuffing attacks on their login pages. Until today, ATP rules were limited to inspecting incoming login requests against a stolen credentials database, analyzing requests seen over time for username and password traversals, […]