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AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service announces the availability of quota information through Service Quotas
Amazon OpenSearch Service now allows users to view default quota and applied quota information through Service Quotas. Quotas, also referred to as limits in AWS services, are the maximum values for the resources, actions, and items in your AWS account. Each AWS service defines its quotas and establishes default values for those quotas. Depending on […]
GCP – Network & Application Security in Google Cloud
Google owns and operates one of the largest backbone networks in the world to connect its data centers. When your traffic is on the Google network, it no longer transits the public internet, making it less likely to be attacked, intercepted, or manipulated. Data is encrypted in transit and the scale of the network provides […]
AWS – Amazon GuardDuty introduces new machine learning capabilities to more accurately detect potentially malicious access to data stored in S3 buckets
Amazon GuardDuty has incorporated new machine learning techniques that are highly effective at detecting anomalous access to data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. This new capability continuously models S3 data plane API invocations (e.g. GET, PUT, and DELETE) within an account, incorporating probabilistic predictions to more accurately alert on highly suspicious user […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in South Africa North
Reduce spending by storing rarely accessed data to Azure Archive Storage, now in new regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS announces a streamlined deployment experience for .NET applications in .NET CLI and Visual Studio
We are happy to announce the general availability of the new streamlined deployment experience for .NET applications. With sensible defaults for all deployment settings, you can now get your .NET application up and running in just one click, or with a few easy steps – without needing deep expertise in AWS. You will receive recommendations […]
AWS – AWS Identity and Access Management introduces IAM Roles Anywhere for workloads outside of AWS
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now enables workloads that run outside of AWS to access AWS resources using IAM Roles Anywhere. IAM Roles Anywhere allows your workloads such as servers, containers, and applications to use X.509 digital certificates to obtain temporary AWS credentials and use the same IAM roles and policies that you have configured […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub launches 36 new security best practice controls
AWS Security Hub has released 36 new controls for its Foundational Security Best Practice standard (FSBP) to enhance your Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM). These controls conduct fully-automatic checks against security best practices for AWS Auto Scaling, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports feature metadata and search
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store is a fully managed, purpose-built repository to store, update, search, and share machine learning (ML) features. The service provides feature management capabilities such as enabling easy feature reuse, low latency serving, time travel, and ensuring consistency between features used in training and inference workflows. A feature group is a logical grouping […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Performance Insights supports additional performance history retention periods
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Performance Insights now allows you to choose retention periods for your performance history that range from one month up to 24 months. You can also use the RDS Performance Insights free tier, which includes seven days of performance data history and one million API requests per month. We have […]
GCP – How Google is preparing for a post-quantum world
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on Tuesday announced the completion of the third round of the Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) standardization process, and we are pleased to share that a submission (SPHINCS+) with Google’s involvement was selected for standardization. Two submissions (Classic McEliece, BIKE) are being considered for the next round. We want […]