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GCP – Introducing Google Cloud’s new Assured Open Source Software service
There has been an increasing awareness in the developer community, enterprises, and governments of software supply chain risks. Remediation efforts for vulnerabilities like Log4j and Spring4shell, and a 650% year-over-year increase in cyberattacks aimed at open source suppliers, have sharpened focus on the critical task of bolstering the security of open source software. Governments and […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 I4i metal instances are now available
Starting today, Amazon EC2 I4i metal instances are available in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Regions – US East (Ohio and N. Virginia), US West (Oregon) and Europe (Ireland). Designed for storage I/O intensive workloads, I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune is now FedRAMP compliant
Amazon Neptune is now in scope for FedRAMP High in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions, and FedRAMP Moderate in the US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon) Regions. You can now use Amazon Neptune to build applications for workloads that require FedRAMP High or Moderate […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower can now use customer provided core accounts
Today, we are announcing new functionality in AWS Control Tower that provides you the flexibility to use your existing security and logging accounts, or to have AWS Control Tower create new accounts on your behalf when setting up Control Tower or extending Control Tower governance to your existing AWS environment. The Security account is used […]
Azure – Public preview: Additional support for managed identity authentication in Azure Stream Analytics
Stream Analytics now supports authenticating to Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Service Bus using Managed Identities. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Glue now supports SASL authentication for Apache Kafka
AWS Glue can now connect to Apache Kafka using additional client authentication mechanisms. AWS Glue now supports SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) using either SCRAM (Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism) or GSSAPI (Kerberos). Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Distribution of Kubeflow supporting Kubeflow v1.4.1 is now generally available
Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of AWS support for Kubeflow v1.4. Kubeflow on AWS streamlines data science tasks and helps build highly reliable, secure, portable, and scalable ML systems with reduced operational overheads through integrations with AWS managed services. You can use this Kubeflow distribution to build ML systems on top […]
Azure – Public preview: Azure DNS Private Resolver – Hybrid name resolution and conditional forwarding
Seamlessly perform conditional forwarding from on-prem to Azure Private DNS Zones and from Azure Virtual Networks to any target DNS server. Read More for the details.
GCP – Standardization, security, and governance across environments with Anthos Multi-Cloud
Kubernetes is being used for an ever growing percentage of production applications that power the world. Day 2 operations are now in focus as organizations scale from just a few clusters and applications to many clusters across multiple environments, in one cloud, multiple, and even on premise. How do you establish “sameness” across all of […]
GCP – Google Cloud at KubeCon EU: New projects, updated services, and how to connect
It’s that time of the year again, when we get excited about all things cloud-native and gear up to connect, share and learn from fellow developers and technologists at KubeCon EU 2022. Here is a quick round up of the latest news from the Google open source and Kubernetes teams, and how to connect with […]