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GCP – Identity & Access management: Authentication with Cloud Identity
In security, the three “A”s of controlling access are Authentication (Who is the user?), Authorization (What is the user allowed to do?), and Auditing (What are they doing?) Going a bit deeper: Authentication (AuthN): Authentication is the process of identifying a user through a private form of verification (for example, a password, a certificate, a […]
AWS – Now programmatically manage primary contact information on AWS accounts
Today, we are making it easier for customers to view and update primary contact information on their AWS accounts using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) and AWS SDK. We previously released the Accounts SDK that enables customers to programmatically manage billing, operations, and security contacts for their accounts. Starting today, customers can use the […]
Azure – General availability: Microsoft Cost Details API for EA and MCA customers
Cost Details API is now generally available for use by EA and MCA customers. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Fault Injection Simulator now supports ChaosMesh and Litmus experiments
AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) now supports ChaosMesh and Litmus experiments for containerized applications running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Using the new Kubernetes custom resource action for AWS FIS, you can control ChaosMesh and Litmus chaos experiments from within an AWS FIS experiment, enabling you to coordinate fault injection workflows among multiple tools. […]
GCP – New 20+ pipeline operators for BQML
Today we are excited to announce the release of over twenty new BigQuery and BigQuery ML (BQML) operators for Vertex AI Pipelines, that help make it easier to operationalize BigQuery and BQML jobs in a Vertex AI Pipeline. The first five BigQuery and BQML pipeline components were released earlier this year. These twenty-one new, first-party, […]
GCP – Quick Access: Intelligence behind the Google Cloud’s new homepage
A few weeks ago, we announced the new homepage for Google Cloud, redesigned for simplicity, performance, and navigation. Today, we’d like to share a deeper insight into Quick Access, a new feature of Active Assist that powers this new streamlined homepage experience. Quick Access introduces intelligent shortcuts that reduce the average time it takes you […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Console adds ‘Verified Provider’ label for public AMIs
You can now use the ‘Verified Provider’ label on the EC2 Console to pick public Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that are owned by Amazon verified accounts. Previously, customers would need to check the owner IDs of AMIs that were publicly shared to identify the source of the AMI. IDs of verified sources were not always […]
AWS – AWS Lambda announces support for a new IAM condition key, lambda:SourceFunctionArn
AWS Lambda announces support for lambda:SourceFunctionArn. A new IAM condition key that can be used for IAM policy conditions that specify the ARN of the function from which a request is made. Starting today, when a function is invoked, Lambda will automatically add the new lambda:SourceFunctionArn condition key to the request context of all AWS […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Multi-AZ option with up to 2x faster transaction commit latency is now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
The Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ deployment option with one primary and two readable standby database (DB) instances across three Availability Zones (AZs) is now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. This deployment option give you up to 2x faster transaction commit latency, automated fail overs typically under 35 seconds, and readable standby […]
GCP – Providing our EU Education customers’ with data transfer protections to support privacy assessments
Recently, Datatilsynet (the Danish Data Protection Authority) issued a ruling emphasizing the importance of conducting proper due diligence before implementing cloud services. We agree due diligence is an important step for customers since privacy assessments and outcomes can vary significantly based on the way customers have configured their system. Although this ruling is limited to […]