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AWS – AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports cross-Region and cross-Availability Zone failback
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now allows you to initiate a scalable failback process for your applications running on AWS. This process helps simplify failing back recovered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances to your primary AWS Region or Availability Zone. It also allows you to perform frequent, non-disruptive recovery and failback drills […]

AWS – Announcing data protection in Amazon CloudWatch Logs, helping you detect, and protect sensitive data-in-transit
We are excited to announce data protection in Amazon CloudWatch Logs, a new set of capabilities that leverage pattern matching and machine learning capabilities to detect and protect sensitive log data-in-transit. Amazon CloudWatch Logs enables you to centralize the logs from all of your systems, applications, and AWS services, in a single, highly scalable service. […]

AWS – AWS IoT announces general availability for version 5 of MQTT message broker (MQTT5)
AWS IoT Core, a managed cloud service that lets customers connect billions of IoT devices and routes trillions of messages to AWS services, and AWS IoT Core Device Advisor, a cloud-based fully-managed test capability to help developers validate their IoT devices for reliable and secure connectivity with AWS IoT Core, announces the General Availability of […]

AWS – AWS Backup introduces support for Amazon Redshift
AWS announces support for Amazon Redshift in AWS Backup, making it easier for you to centrally manage data protection of your Amazon Redshift data warehouse. You can now use AWS Backup to schedule and restore Redshift manual snapshots. Further, your backups can provide enhanced data protection with immutability, improved security with separate backup access policies, […]

AWS – Amazon EBS launches Rule Lock for Recycle Bin to prevent unintended changes to Region-level retention rules for Snapshots and AMIs
Today, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) announced the availability of Rule Lock for Recycle Bin so customers can lock their Region-level retention rules to prevent them from being unintentionally modified or deleted. This new setting adds an additional layer of protection for customers to recover their EBS Snapshots and EC2 AMIs in case of inadvertent […]

AWS – Amazon Managed Grafana now supports visualizing Prometheus Alertmanager rules and new configuration APIs
Amazon Managed Grafana now supports visualizing Prometheus Alertmanager rules, new configuration APIs and additional visualization plugins. AWS customers using Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, or running self-managed Prometheus environments can visualize and analyze their Alertmanager rules, alert states, silences and contact points directly in an Amazon Managed Grafana workspace. Customers can opt-in to viewing their […]

AWS – Amazon Managed Grafana now supports connection to data sources hosted in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
Amazon Managed Grafana now supports direct connectivity to data sources hosted in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service for open-source Grafana that simplifies connecting to open-source, third-party ISV, and AWS services for visualizing and analyzing your data sources at scale. Amazon VPC is a virtual network dedicated to […]

AWS – Amazon Rekognition adds new pre-trained labels, and introduces color detection
Amazon Rekognition Labels is a machine learning-based image and video analysis service that can detect objects, people, text, scenes, and activities. Starting today, customers get multiple improvements and enhancements in Amazon Rekognition Labels for images. In the new update, we have added 600 new labels and improved the accuracy of over 2,000 existing labels. We […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches cluster points for Geospatial Visual
Authors of Amazon QuickSight can now improve readability of points on maps visual by changing the points style to cluster points. When hundreds of data points are clumped together with many of them so close in proximity that they overlap and are not visible, cluster points makes is it easy for readers to find patterns […]
AWS – AWS IoT RoboRunner is now generally available
AWS IoT RoboRunner is an AWS for Robotics service that unlocks new use cases for robotics automation by helping fleets of robots seamlessly work together. AWS IoT RoboRunner reduces the complex development work required to build the applications you need to provide multivendor interoperability. Read More for the details.