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AWS – Amazon NAT Gateway Now Allows You to Select Private IP Address for Network Address Translation
Starting today, you can choose the private IP address that your NAT Gateway uses for network address translation. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SNS announces enhanced integration with AWS Service Quotas
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) has enhanced its integration with AWS Service Quotas. Previously, you could use AWS Service Quotas to view the default quotas of Amazon SNS. Now, with the enhanced integration, you can view your account-specific quota overrides as well as submit your quota increase requests for Amazon SNS. The quota increase […]

Azure – Public preview: Azure SQL trigger for Azure Functions
You can invoke an Azure Function when a row in a SQL database is created, updated, or deleted through the Azure SQL trigger for Azure Functions, now available in public preview. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS IoT ExpressLink Technical Specification v1.1 released
We are excited to announce the new AWS IoT ExpressLink Technical Specification v1.1 for hardware connectivity modules, and expand our qualified module list with Realtek’s Ameba Z2 AWS IoT ExpressLink – the first Wi-Fi connectivity module to qualify with the new specification. AWS IoT ExpressLink modules enable easy AWS cloud-connectivity and implement AWS-mandated security requirements […]

AWS – Amazon ElastiCache simplifies password rotations with Secrets Manager
You can now efficiently manage and rotate passwords for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis clusters using AWS Secrets Manager. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Connect launches API for monitoring live contacts
Amazon Connect now provides an API to programmatically initiate supervisor monitoring on an ongoing contact. Today, contact center supervisors can monitor live conversations between agents and customers by selecting which conversations to monitor via the real-time metrics page in Amazon Connect. Using the new MonitorContact API, businesses can now build custom supervisor dashboards that include […]

GCP – How the year’s final Google Cloud Security Talks will ready you for security and cloud success in 2023
As we help our customers evolve their security approaches for the cloud era, two key objectives based on Google’s experience defending our own infrastructure and systems, emerge: trust nothing and detect everything. These can seem like daunting tasks for even the most capable security teams, especially in today’s challenging threat environment. But next month, our […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now supports batch inference in Amazon SageMaker Studio
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now supports batch/offline inference within Amazon SageMaker Studio so you can run batch predictions on machine learning (ML) models. SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains and tunes the best ML models based on your data, while allowing you to maintain full control and visibility. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Security Hub now supports bidirectional integration via AWS Service Management Connector for Atlassian’s Jira Service Management Cloud
Staring today, customers can detect and resolve AWS security findings from AWS Security Hub via AWS Service Management Connector. This integration is built using Atlassian Forge for Atlassian’s Jira Service Management (JSM) Cloud. AWS Security Hub helps customers to perform security best practice checks, aggregate alerts and enables automated remediation. It enables users to view […]
AWS – AWS Service Management Connector now supports provisioning AWS Service Catalog products in Atlassian’s Jira Service Management Cloud
Starting today, customers can search, request and provision products from AWS Service Catalog via AWS Service Management Connector. This integration is built using Atlassian Forge for Atlassian’s Jira Service Management (JSM) Cloud. With this connector, administrators can use existing AWS Service Catalog configurations, including curated products, portfolios, constraints, and tagging, and expose them to JSM […]