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AWS – Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive is now available in additional regions
Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive is now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Canada (Central), and South America (São Paulo) Regions. We launched EBS Snapshots Archive in 17 commercial regions in November, 2021, to help you save up to 75% on storage costs for EBS Snapshots that you intend to retain for more than […]
AWS – AWS AppConfig Feature Flag Lambda Extension announces support for Arm/Graviton2 processors
In the latest release of the AWS AppConfig Lambda Extension, there is support for Arm/Graviton2 processors. Using AWS AppConfig, a feature of AWS Systems Manager, customers can easily create feature flags or other dynamic/runtime configuration and safely deploy updates. The AWS AppConfig Lambda Extension allows customers to access this feature flag and dynamic configuration data in […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) announces support of Goerli Testnet for Ethereum
Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) announces general availability of Goerli Testnet (Goerli), a proof-of-authority test network for Ethereum. As a fully managed service, AMB’s support of Goerli provides customers a stable testing environment for their distributed applications ahead of Ethereum’s upcoming consensus upgrade (The Merge), without having to manage complicated blockchain infrastructure. Read More for the details.
GCP – The definitive guide to databases on Google Cloud: Part 2 – Options at a glance
Isaac Newton said, “If I have seen farther than others it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.” He meant that in order to explain the Law of Gravity, he used the work of major thinkers who came before him in order to make intellectual progress (as-in giving credit). In the 1640’s […]
Azure – Generally available: Enhancements to Azure Web Application Firewall
Latest updates and new enhancements available for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Quicksight Line chart support for 10,000 data points
Amazon QuickSight now supports 10,000 data points for Line charts. With this update, line chart performance has been improved to support 10,000 data points from the earlier 2500 data point limit and introduces other minor bug fixes. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Event Grid enables user authorization to create partner topics
Gain a greater security stance by explicitly authorizing a partner to create partner topics or partner destinations in your Azure subscription. Read More for the details.
GCP – Getting started with OpenSSH on Windows Compute Engine instances
One of the best practices for managing your virtual machines in the cloud is to rely on smart automation for certain tasks. When done this way you can save cloud and IT teams a tremendous amount of time and toil, especially for tasks like VM state validation which we’ll talk about in this blog. Let’s […]
GCP – Implementing HKMA’s Secure Tertiary Data Backup (STDB) on Google Cloud
In this post, we will discuss how Google Cloud can be used as a backup storage solution to support the objectives of the Secure Tertiary Data Backup (STDB) guideline developed by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and Hong Kong Association of Banks. We will focus on the storage location and its surrounding security controls. […]
AWS – Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer now supports suppression of files and folders in code reviews
Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer is a developer tool that leverages automated reasoning and machine learning to detect potential code defects that are difficult to find and offers suggestions for improvements. Today, we’re announcing the support of file/folder suppression for Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer, a new feature that allows customer to prevent CodeGuru Reviewer from surfacing findings on […]