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AWS – Amazon CloudWatch now supports querying metrics data up to two weeks old
Amazon CloudWatch now allows you to query metrics data up to two weeks in the past using the Metrics Insights query source. CloudWatch Metrics Insights offers fast, flexible, SQL-based queries. This new capability allows you to display, aggregate, or slice and dice metrics data older than 3 hours, for enhanced visualization and investigation. Customers creating […]
GCP – Introducing BigQuery soft failover: Greater control for disaster recovery testing
Most businesses with mission-critical workloads have a two-fold disaster recovery solution in place that 1) replicates data to a secondary location, and 2) enables failover to that location in the event of an outage. For BigQuery, that solution takes the shape of BigQuery Managed Disaster Recovery. But the risk of data loss while testing a […]
GCP – Accelerate your IPv6 journey: Introducing DNS64 and NAT64 for the Cross-Cloud Network
We introduced Cross-Cloud Network to help organizations transform hybrid and multicloud connectivity, and today, many customers are using it to build distributed applications across multiple clouds, on-premises networks, and the internet. A key aspect of this evolution is the ability to scale with IPv6 addressing. However, the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is a gradual […]
AWS – AWS Config now supports 5 new resource types
AWS Config now supports 5 additional AWS resource types. This expansion provides greater coverage over your AWS environment, enabling you to more effectively discover, assess, audit, and remediate an even broader range of resources. With this launch, if you have enabled recording for all resource types, then AWS Config will automatically track these new additions. […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle introduces bare metal instances with 25% lower pricing compared to equivalent virtualized instances
Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now support bare metal instances. You can use M7i, R7i, X2iedn, X2idn, X2iezn, M6i, M6id, M6in, R6i, R6id, and R6in bare metal instances at 25% lower price compared to equivalent virtualized instances. With bare metal instances, you can combine multiple databases onto a single bare […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock now supports Global Cross-Region inference for Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 is now available with Global cross-Region inference in Amazon Bedrock, so you can now use the Global Claude Sonnet 4 inference profile to route your inference requests to any supported commercial AWS Region for processing, optimizing available resources and enabling higher model throughput. Amazon Bedrock is a comprehensive, secure, and flexible […]
GCP – ViewState Deserialization Zero-Day Vulnerability in Sitecore Products (CVE-2025-53690)
Written by: Rommel Joven, Josh Fleischer, Joseph Sciuto, Andi Slok, Choon Kiat Ng In a recent investigation, Mandiant Threat Defense discovered an active ViewState deserialization attack affecting Sitecore deployments leveraging sample machine keys that had been exposed in Sitecore deployment guides from 2017 and earlier. An attacker leveraged the exposed ASP.NET machine keys to perform […]
AWS – AWS Clean Rooms supports adding new data providers to existing collaborations
AWS Clean Rooms now supports the ability to add data provider members to an existing collaboration, offering customers enhanced flexibility as they iterate on and develop new use cases with their partners. With this launch, you can collaborate with new data providers without having to set up a new collaboration. Collaboration owners can configure an […]
AWS – AWS Clean Rooms ML now supports redacted error log summaries
AWS Clean Rooms ML custom modeling enables you and your partners to train and run inference on a custom ML models using collective datasets at scale without having to share your sensitive data or intellectual property. With today’s launch, collaborators can configure a new privacy control that sends redacted error log summaries to specified collaboration […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Catalog adds support for governed classification with restricted terms
Amazon SageMaker Catalog now supports governed classification through Restricted Classification Terms, allowing catalog administrators to control which users and projects can apply sensitive glossary terms to their assets. This new capability is designed to help organizations enforce metadata standards and ensure classification consistency across teams and domains. With this launch, glossary terms can be marked […]