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AWS – ECS Exec is now available in the AWS Management Console
The Amazon ECS console now supports ECS Exec, enabling you to open secure, interactive shell access directly from the AWS Management Console to any running container. ECS customers often need to access running containers to debug applications and examine running processes. ECS Exec provides easy and secure access to running containers without requiring inbound ports […]
AWS – AWS HealthOmics is now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Today, AWS announces that AWS HealthOmics private workflows are now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region, expanding access to fully managed bioinformatics workflows for healthcare and life sciences customers in Korea. AWS HealthOmics is a HIPAA-eligible service that helps healthcare and life sciences customers accelerate scientific breakthroughs with fully managed bioinformatics workflows. HealthOmics enables […]
AWS – Amazon MQ now supports OAuth 2.0 plugin for RabbitMQ
Amazon MQ now supports OAuth 2.0 authentication and authorization for RabbitMQ brokers with public identity providers in both single instance and highly available Multi-AZ cluster deployments. This feature enables RabbitMQ brokers to authenticate clients and users using JWT-encoded OAuth 2.0 access tokens, providing enhanced security and flexibility in access management. You can configure OAuth 2.0 […]
AWS – AWS Direct Connect announces new location in Nairobi, Kenya
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within East African Data Centres NBO1 near Nairobi, Kenya. You can now establish private, direct network access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones from this location. This site is the first AWS Direct Connect location in Kenya. […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch query alarms now support monitoring metrics individually
Amazon CloudWatch now allows you to monitor multiple individual metrics via a single alarm. By dynamically including metrics to monitor via a query, this new capability eliminates the need to manually manage separate alarms for dynamic resource fleets. As customers rely more on autonomous teams and autoscaled resources, they face a choice between maintenance-free aggregated […]
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 […]