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AWS – AWS Firewall Manager now supports Palo Alto Networks Cloud Next Generation Firewalls
AWS Firewall Manager now enables you to centrally deploy and monitor Palo Alto Networks Cloud Next Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) across all AWS virtual private clouds (VPCs) in your AWS organization. With this release, customers will now have a single firewall management solution to deploy and manage both AWS native firewalls and Palo Alto Networks Cloud […]

AWS – AWS Security Hub launches 12 controls for security posture monitoring
AWS Security Hub has released 12 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 Amazon Auto Scaling, Amazon CloudFront, AWS CodeBuild, Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Lambda, Amazon Network Firewall, Amazon […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 now performs automatic recovery of instances by default
Today, Amazon EC2 announces automatic recovery by default, a new feature that makes it even easier for customers to recover their instance when it becomes unreachable. Automatic recovery improves instance availability by recovering the instance if it becomes impaired due to an underlying hardware issue. Automatic recovery migrates the instance to another hardware during an […]

AWS – Amazon Textract announces updates to its tables and check detection features
Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that makes it easy to extract text and data from virtually any document. We continuously improve the underlying machine learning models based on customer feedback to provide even better accuracy. Today, we are pleased to announce few quality enhancements to both our Tables and checkbox detection features. Read […]

AWS – AWS Organizations now provides central AWS account closure to enable easier end-to-end account lifecycle management
You can now centrally close member accounts in your AWS Organizations through the console and programmatically via the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) and SDK. This feature makes it easier and more efficient for you to manage your Amazon Web Services workloads by enabling you to close member accounts from your organization’s management account without needing […]

AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now enables you to change the throughput capacity of your file systems
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now enables you to change the throughput capacity of your file systems with the click of a button, providing you the flexibility to scale up or down to meet your evolving needs over time. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EMR Managed Scaling is now Spark shuffle data aware
Amazon EMR Managed Scaling automatically resizes EMR clusters for best performance and resource utilization. Today, we are excited to announce a new capability in Managed Scaling that prevents it from scaling down instances that store intermediate shuffle data for Apache Spark. Intelligently scaling down clusters without removing the instances that store intermediate shuffle data prevents job […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 13.6, 12.10, 11.15, 10.20 and Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL 1.2.0
Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database by the open source community, we have updated Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition to support PostgreSQL 13.6, 12.10, 11.15, and 10.20. These releases contain bug fixes and improvements by the PostgreSQL community. Refer to the Aurora version policy to help you to decide how often to upgrade and how to […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch adds option for easy monitoring set up
Now you can easily set up monitoring, alarms and dashboards for many of your resources and workloads automatically in CloudWatch. The new one-click option on the CloudWatch Getting Started page provides customers a convenient means to launch CloudWatch Application Insights. Once launched, Application Insights will discover the underlying resources in your account or Resource Group […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Data Explorer supports Conditional Access
Azure Data Explorer launches support for Azure Active Directory Conditional Access. Read More for the details.