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AWS – AWS IAM Identity Center now supports session management capabilities for AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) and SDKs
Starting today, AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) customers can manage the session duration (between 15 mins and 7 days) for AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) and SDKs sessions. With this release, when you set access portal session duration for your organization in IAM Identity Center, it also applies to AWS CLI […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight supports NULL in parameter
Amazon QuickSight now fully support NULL in parameter use. Parameter, as a place holder for single value or multi-value variables, is a powerful and widely used entity in QuickSight. Previously, NULL is not supported as a valid value for parameter, which created some discrepancies when user data has NULL value in it. With the full enablement […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now supports configurable Lex timeouts within Chat experience
Amazon Connect Chat now allows you to configure timeouts for chat conversations between a customer and an Amazon Lex chatbot. This enables you to define how long to wait for a response from the customer (e.g. 5 minutes) before the session expires. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon QuickSight Now Supports Connectivity to Databricks
Today, Amazon QuickSight is announcing the general availability of a new connector for QuickSight that will enable customers to natively connect to Databricks. This launch allows you to connect to and visualize data from the Databricks E2 version of the platform. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Add an Azure Cosmos DB custom endpoint in IoT Hub
Azure IoT Hub now supports the ability to setup an Azure Cosmos DB account as a custom endpoint. This will help route device data from IoT Hub to Azure Cosmos DB directly. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Bastion now support shareable links
Shareable links allows users to connect to target resources via Azure Bastion without access to the Azure portal. Read More for the details.
GCP – How GKE & Anthos Container-Aware Load balancing Increases Applications’ Reliability
Reliability of a system can be measured based on several factors, including, but not limited to, performance, resilience and security. Nevertheless, resiliency is one of the key factors. For more information on how to architect and operate reliable services on a cloud platform, refer to the reliability category of Google Cloud Architecture Framework. This blog […]
GCP – Solving internal search problems with Dialogflow
Employees often struggle to find the information they need to be productive. Countless hours are wasted each day as workers peruse a jungle of intranet pages, dig through emails, and otherwise struggle to find the resources they require. Dialogflow ES, a part of Google Cloud’s Contact Center AI (CCAI), can help. We’ve seen as much […]
AWS – Amazon Translate Enables Tagging Support for Parallel Data and Custom Terminology
Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Today, we are launching support of tagging for custom terminology and parallel data resources and then allow/restrict access on them based on the tags. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Nitro System now supports previous generation of instances
Amazon Web Services announces AWS Nitro System support for EC2’s previous generation of instances to extend the length of service beyond the typical lifetime of the underlying hardware. The AWS Nitro System provides modern hardware and software components for EC2 instances, allowing customers to continue running their workloads and applications on the instance families they […]