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AWS – AWS Config announces a price reduction up to 58% for conformance packs
We are excited to announce that AWS Config has reduced conformance pack prices by up to 58% depending on your usage levels. A conformance pack is a collection of AWS Config rules and remediation actions that can be easily deployed as a single entity in an account and a Region or across an entire organization, […]

AWS – Introducing Visual Conversation builder for Amazon Lex
Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems. We’re excited to introduce the Visual Conversation Builder, a drag and drop interface to visualize and build conversation flows in a […]

AWS – AWS Backup Audit Manager is now available in Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan)
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup Audit Manager in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) Regions. AWS Backup Audit Manager is a feature within the AWS Backup service that allows you to audit and report on the compliance of your data protection policies to help you meet your business and regulatory […]

AWS – AWS IoT Device Defender ML Detect Custom Metrics and Dimensions support
We are excited to introduce two new enhancements to AWS IoT Device Defender ML Detect, Custom Metrics and Dimensions support. ML Detect now supports monitoring of custom metrics, allowing you to evaluate operational health parameters that are unique to your fleet. Besides setting static alarms manually with Rules Detect, you can now use machine learning to […]

AWS – AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for Nitro Enclaves now supports Apache HTTP webservers
You can now use Apache HTTP webservers with AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for Nitro Enclaves. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports Amazon AppFlow connectors
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles is now available as a destination in the Amazon AppFlow console. With a few clicks, customers can now bring data from 20+ application connectors into Customer Profiles and equip contact center agents with the information needed to provide personalized customer service. Amazon AppFlow connectors allows ingestion of data such as transactions (e.g., […]

Azure – Public preview: Monitoring for Ampere Altra Arm–based VMs and AKS clusters
Azure Monitor now supports monitoring for Arm–based Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Kubernetes Service with Arm nodes. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Operation abort
Stop an ongoing cluster or agentpool operation in emergency situations. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Windows Network Policy Manager for Windows server 2022 in AKS
You can now add Azure network policies to Windows 2022 server in AKS. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Load Testing in UK South
Azure Load Testing is in public preview in UK South. Read More for the details.