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AWS – Easily process your data while using Amazon Lookout for metrics
We are excited to announce that you can now filter your data by its dimensions while using Amazon Lookout for Metrics. Amazon Lookout for Metrics uses machine learning (ML) to automatically monitor the metrics that are most important to businesses with greater speed and accuracy than traditional methods used for anomaly detection. The service also […]

Azure – General availability: Authenticate to Service Bus using managed identity
Authenticate your Stream Analytics jobs to connect to Service Bus using system-assigned managed identities. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL output in Stream Analytics
Native output connector for Azure Database for PostgreSQL allows you to easily build real time applications with the database of your choice. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Managed private endpoint support to Synapse SQL output
You can now connect your Stream Analytics jobs running on a dedicated cluster to your synapse dedicated SQL pool using managed private endpoints. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Up to 45% performance gains in stream processing
Your Stream Analytics jobs get up to 45% performance boost in CPU utilization by default. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Connect Voice ID now detects fraud risk from voice spoofing during customer calls
Amazon Connect Voice ID now detects fraud risk from voice-based deception techniques such as voice manipulation during customer calls, helping you make your voice interactions more secure. For example, Voice ID can detect, in real-time, if an imposter is using a speech synthesizer to spoof a caller’s voice and bluff the agent or Interactive Voice […]

AWS – AWS App Runner now supports Amazon Route 53 alias record for root domain name
AWS App Runner now supports Amazon Route 53 alias records for creating a root domain name. App Runner makes it easy for developers to quickly deploy containerized web applications and APIs to the cloud, at scale, and without having to manage infrastructure. When you create an App Runner service, by default, App Runner allocates a […]

AWS – AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) for Amazon RDS, AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, and AWS KMS now generally available
An additional 5 AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) service controllers have graduated to generally available status. Customers can now provision and manage AWS resources using ACK controllers for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP), and AWS Key Management Service (KMS). Read More for the details.

GCP – How to use Google Cloud to find and protect PII
BigQuery is a leading data warehouse solution in the market today, and is valued by customers who need to gather insights and advanced analytics on their data. Many common BigQuery use cases involve the storage and processing of Personal Identifiable Information (PII)—data that needs to be protected within Google Cloud from unauthorized and malicious access. […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB now supports up to 100 actions per transaction
Amazon DynamoDB transactions enable coordinated, all-or-nothing changes to multiple items both within and across tables. The maximum number of actions in a single transaction has now increased from 25 to 100. Read More for the details.