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AWS – Amazon Athena expands support for AWS Lake Formation fine-grained access control
You can now apply AWS Lake Formation fine-grained access control policies with all table and file format supported by Amazon Athena. Lake Formation allows for centrally managing permissions and access control for data catalog resources in your S3 data lake. You can use fine-grained access control in Lake Formation to restrict access to data in […]
Azure – Generally available: Encrypt managed disks with cross-tenant customer-managed keys
Protect your data by encrypting Premium SSD, Standard SSD, and Standard HDD managed disks with cross tenant customer-managed keys. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Quota REST APIs to manage service limits (quota)
Use Azure REST Quota APIs to manage the service limits (quotas) of Azure Virtual Machines (cores/vCPU), Networking, Azure HPC Cache, and Azure Purview services. Read More for the details.
GCP – Cloud Storage gets better system observability with customizable monitoring dashboards
Google Cloud Storage is a managed service for storing unstructured data and allowing retrieval of the data as often as users like. Because Cloud Storage is a fundamental and highly utilized service, the observability of storage is critical for storage engineers’ and administrators’ day-to-day operations. It is also critical for the scalability and sustainability of […]
GCP – Using AI to increase asset utilization and production uptime for manufacturers
Today, manufacturers are advancing on their factory digitalization journey, betting on innovative technologies to strengthen competitiveness, deliver sustainable growth, and offer new services. Macroeconomic factors – such as high energy costs, increasing labor, and raw material shortages – drive the need for urgent operational optimizations and automation. Cloud capabilities have matured at an accelerated pace, […]
GCP – CISO Survival Guide: How financial services organizations can more securely move to the cloud
It’s not just children and adults who face excitement and nervousness on the first day of school. The first day in the cloud can be daunting for financial services organizations, too. Chief Information Security Officers must lead the cloud security component of their organization’s digital transformation, a complicated task beset by many questions that the […]
Azure – Limited preview: Azure Backup support for confidential VMs using Platform Managed Keys
You can use this feature to back up confidential VMs using Platform Managed Keys. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Resource Manager — Migrating to TLS 1.2 with Deprecation of Outdated Security Protocols
Azure Resource Manager will be deprecating support for TLS 1.1 and older in Fall 2023. To maintain an uninterrupted connection with Azure Resource Manager, update your operating systems and work environments to support TLS 1.2. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS CloudTrail Lake now supports encryption using Customer Managed KMS Keys (CMK)
AWS CloudTrail announces the ability to use your own Customer Managed KMS Keys (CMK) to encrypt the activity logs stored in CloudTrail Lake. CloudTrail has always provided encryption by default using AWS owned KMS keys for all data stored in CloudTrail Lake. This feature provides you the option of adding a self-managed security layer to […]
AWS – NICE DCV releases version 2022.2 with support for monitor selection for a full-screen remote session and time zone redirection
NICE DCV version 2022.2 introduces multiple new features, such as support for Mac computer Retina displays and time zone redirection. NICE DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol that is designed to help customers securely access remote desktop or application sessions, including 3D graphics applications hosted on servers with high-performance GPUs. Read More for the […]