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AWS – AWS Control Tower adopts AWS CloudTrail Organization logging
AWS Control Tower now includes AWS CloudTrail organization logging as part of landing zone version 3.0. With this new feature, an organization-level AWS CloudTrail trail will be deployed in your organization’s management account to automatically log the actions of all member accounts in your organizations. AWS Control Tower does not configure any parameters for logging […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower now reduces AWS Config configuration items by only recording global resources in home Regions
AWS Control Tower now helps reduce redundant AWS Config configuration items by limiting recording of global resources to home Regions only. Previously, AWS Control Tower configured AWS Config to record global resources in all Regions. Since global resources are not tied to a specific AWS Region, changes to global resources are identical across Regions. Limiting recording for […]
AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise is now available in US East (Ohio) and Canada (Central) AWS Regions
AWS IoT SiteWise is now available in US East (Ohio) and Canada (Central) AWS Regions, extending the footprint to 12 AWS Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces encryption support with customer managed keys
We’re excited to announce the support for encryption at rest for datasets and machine learning (ML) models on Amazon SageMaker Canvas using customer managed keys with AWS Key Management Service (KMS). Amazon SageMaker Canvas is a visual point-and-click interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any […]
AWS – AWS Backup now supports copying Amazon S3 backups across AWS Regions and accounts
AWS Backup for Amazon S3 now enables you to copy your Amazon S3 backups across AWS Regions and AWS accounts. With backups of Amazon S3 in multiple AWS Regions, you can maintain separable, protected copies of your backup data to help meet the compliance requirements for data protection and disaster recovery. In addition, backups across AWS […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 1.3
You can now run OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards version 1.3 on Amazon OpenSearch Service. This version includes several new features and improvements around observability, SQL and PPL, Alerting and Anomaly Detection. You can upgrade your domain seamlessly to OpenSearch version 1.3 from any of the previous OpenSearch versions, or from Elasticsearch versions 6.8 or 7.x […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service announces support for EBS gp3 volume type
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume type gp3 (General Purpose SSD), in addition to the existing gp2, Magnetic and PIOPS (io1) volumes. You can use gp3 volumes on our latest generation T3, R5, R6g, M5, M6g, C5 and C6g instance families. Amazon EBS gp3 enables customers to provision performance independent of […]
GCP – No pipelines needed. Stream data with Pub/Sub direct to BigQuery
Pub/Sub’s ingestion of data into BigQuery can be critical to making your latest business data immediately available for analysis. Until today, you had to create intermediate Dataflow jobs before your data could be ingested into BigQuery with the proper schema. While Dataflow pipelines (including ones built with Dataflow Templates) get the job done well, sometimes […]
GCP – Meet the new Professional Cloud Database Engineer certification
After a successful certification beta, we’re excited to share that the Professional Cloud Database Engineer certification is now generally available. This new certification allows you to showcase your ability to manage databases that power the world’s most demanding workloads. Traditional data management roles have evolved and now call for elevated cloud data management expertise, making […]
GCP – Project håp is providing peer-supported mental health services for students
Student mental health is an important topic for institutions and the pandemic made this even more paramount. According to a recent CDC study, the less connected a student is to individuals at their schools, the more likely they are to experience mental health challenges. However, these connections don’t need to be solely physical to be beneficial. […]