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GCP – Getting Started with BigQuery (for Students!)
If you’re a college student like me and are gearing up to enter the “big kids” job market, as I like to call it, then you’ve probably been wondering (or worrying) about how to get ahead of the curve and stand out amongst your peers. When I think about which high-value fields to target for […]
AWS – Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is now HIPAA eligible
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is now a HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) eligible service. You can now use MemoryDB to store, process, and access protected health information (PHI) and power secure healthcare and life sciences applications. MemoryDB is a fully managed, Redis-compatible, in-memory database that provides low latency, high throughput, and durability at […]
AWS – Now capture AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection logs using Amazon CloudWatch
Today, AWS Site-to-Site VPN enables publishing VPN connection logs to CloudWatch, providing you with deeper visibility into your VPN setup to help you quickly troubleshoot and resolve VPN connectivity issues. Read More for the details.
AWS – Smithy Interface Definition Language (IDL) 2.0 is now generally available
Smithy Interface Definition Language (IDL) 2.0 is now generally available. Smithy is Amazon’s next-generation API modeling language that is based on our experience building tens of thousands of APIs and generating SDKs. Using IDL 2.0, developers can now author Smithy models and generate code from Smithy models in a simpler, more intuitive way. Read More […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower customized log retention
AWS Control Tower now provides the ability to customize the retention policy for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets that store your AWS Control Tower CloudTrail logs. AWS Control Tower uses AWS CloudTrail to record logs of actions made by users, roles or AWS services. These logs are stored in Amazon S3 buckets, which […]
GCP – How CISOs need to adapt their mental models for cloud security
Many security leaders head into the cloud armed mostly with tools, practices, skills and ultimately the mental models for how security works that were developed on premise. This leads to cost and efficiency problems that can be solved by mapping their existing mental models to those of the cloud. When it comes to understanding the […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB now supports bulk imports from Amazon S3 to new DynamoDB tables
Amazon DynamoDB now makes it easier for you to migrate and load data into new DynamoDB tables by supporting bulk data imports from Amazon S3. Now, you can import data directly into new tables to help you migrate data from other systems, load test data to help you build new applications, facilitate data sharing between […]
GCP – Make the most of your cloud deployment with Active Assist
Why are so many companies moving to the cloud? One reason we hear quite often is cost reduction. The elasticity of cloud services, or its ability to scale up or down as needed, means paying only for what you use. Right up there on the list of reasons is security. This is because developing in […]
AWS – AWS App Mesh is available in two additional AWS Regions
AWS App Mesh is now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Regions. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easier for your services to communicate with each other across multiple types of compute infrastructure. AWS App Mesh standardizes how your services communicate, giving you […]
AWS – Amazon Chime SDK supports video compositing and merging (concatenation) for WebRTC media capture
Amazon Chime SDK announces the release of concatenation that helps makes it easy to create a single file by concatenating media chunks including audio, video, content, and transcriptions created by Amazon Chime SDK media capture. Amazon Chime SDK enables multi-party video sessions by letting developers add real-time voice and video to their web and mobile […]