Alexa for Business now lets you create address books that make it easier for users to place phone calls from shared Echo devices. With Alexa for Business, you can place Echo devices in common areas like conference rooms, shared workspaces, or hotel rooms. These are called shared Echo devices, and you can make phone calls Read more about Alexa for Business now lets you create address books for easier calling from shared Echo devices[…]

Starting today, AWS Organizations enables you to use the console to view and control which AWS services have trusted access to your organization. AWS services for which you enable trusted access can now access your organization information and perform actions in multiple AWS accounts within your organization. Source: Amazon Web Services News Enable Trusted Organization Read more about Enable Trusted Organization Access in AWS Organizations[…]

AWS is pleased to release a major update to the Red Hat OpenShift Quick Start reference deployment.   Source: Amazon Web Services News Quick Start Update: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on the AWS Cloud

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) has added new Amazon CloudWatch Events to notify customers when volume creation or deletion is accomplished. Instead of having to continuously poll describe-volume API to determine whether the volume has been created or deleted after issuing the command, customers can use these events to track the volume state.  Source: Amazon Read more about Making Easier to Track Your Amazon EBS Volume State[…]

You can now use Resource Groups Tagging API to centrally manage tags and search resources for 13 additional AWS services. The API enables five operations that allow you to programmatically tag and untag resources, list resources with a specific tag, and list unique tag keys across 41 AWS services. For a list of supported AWS Read more about Resource Groups Tagging API Now Supports 13 Additional AWS Services[…]

You can now use Amazon CloudWatch Events to react to resource configuration and compliance change notifications from AWS Config. AWS Config records configuration changes to your AWS resources and evaluates those changes with respect to best practices and internal guidelines according to AWS Config rules. With this launch, you can now use the native capabilities Read more about AWS Config Notifications Are Now Integrated with Amazon CloudWatch Events[…]

Following the recent announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database, we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 10.3, 9.6.8, 9.5.12, 9.4.17, and 9.3.22. This release fixes PostgreSQL security vulnerabilities included in current and previous minor releases by PostgreSQL community and contains additional bug fixes and improvements. With this update, we Read more about Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports New Minor Versions 10.3, 9.6.8, 9.5.12, 9.4.17, and 9.3.22 for Commercial Regions[…]