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Azure – General availability: Trusted launch support for virtual machines using Ephemeral OS disks
Trusted launch virtual machine (VM) support for VMs using Ephemeral OS disks improves the security of generation 2 VMs in Azure. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR 6.6 adds support for Apache Spark 3.2, HUDI 0.10.1, Iceberg 0.13, Trino 0.367, PrestoDB 0.267, and more
Amazon EMR release 6.6 now supports Apache Spark 3.2, Apache Spark RAPIDS 22.02, CUDA 11, Apache Hudi 0.10.1, Apache Iceberg 0.13, Trino 0.367, and PrestoDB 0.267. You can use the performance-optimized version of Apache Spark 3.2 on EMR on EC2, EKS, and recently released EMR Serverless. In addition Apache Hudi 0.10.1 and Apache Iceberg 0.13 […]
AWS – Amazon CloudFront now supports TLS 1.3 session resumption for viewer connections
Amazon CloudFront now supports Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 session resumption to further improve viewer connection performance. Until now, Amazon CloudFront has supported version 1.3 of the TLS protocol since 2020 to encrypt HTTPS communications between viewers and CloudFront. Customers that adopted the protocol have seen their connection performance improved by up to 30% compared […]
GCP – Security insights from Chrome browser delivered with Splunk
Two weeks ago, we announced the Chrome Enterprise Connectors Framework, enabling plug-and-play integrations with industry-leading security solutions and platforms. Together with our security partners, this new framework will help organizations work toward a Zero Trust model to keep their corporate data and users secure. With enterprise security being our shared top priority, Splunk, the data […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub now receives AWS Config managed and custom rule evaluation results
AWS Security Hub now automatically receives AWS Config managed and custom rule evaluation results as security findings. AWS Config allows security and compliance professionals to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of their AWS resources via Config rules, which evaluate the compliance of AWS resources against specified policies. Examples of resource misconfigurations detected by Config […]
AWS – New Amplify Flutter supports customizable authentication flows
AWS Amplify Flutter introduces support for creating customizable authentication flows, using Amazon Cognito Lambda triggers. Using this functionality, developers are able to setup customizations for the login experience in their Flutter apps, such as creating OTP login flows, or adding CAPTCHA to their Flutter app. Read More for the details.
GCP – The new Google Cloud region in Dallas, Texas is now open
Google is proud to have roots in Texas, where over 2,400 Googlers from Android, Cloud, Ads and other product areas, support millions of Texas businesses. In 2021, Google helped provide $38.25 billion of economic activity for Texas businesses, nonprofits, publishers, creators and developers. Today, we’re excited to expand our presence in Texas with the launch […]
AWS – Amazon Chime SDK announces messaging conversation APIs
Amazon Chime SDK messaging enables developers to connect business users and their customers with secure, scalable messaging in their web and mobile applications. Starting today, developers have access to new APIs that provide the ability to search for specific channels as well as automatically pre-fetch information when clients connect to display the messaging channels that […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Studio and SageMaker Notebook Instance now come with JupyterLab 3 notebooks
Amazon SageMaker comes with two options to spin up fully managed notebooks for exploring data and building machine learning (ML) models. The first option is fast start, collaborative notebooks accessible within Amazon SageMaker Studio – a fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning. You can quickly launch notebooks in Studio, easily dial up or […]
AWS – Amazon Personalize adds support for unstructured text in six new languages
Amazon Personalize has extended support for unstructured text in six new languages – Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) and Japanese. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. Last year, Amazon Personalize launched support for unstructured text in English which enabled […]