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AWS – AWS WAF adds JA4 fingerprinting and aggregation on JA3 and JA4 fingerprints for rate-based rules
AWS WAF now supports JA4 fingerprinting of incoming requests, enabling customers to allow known clients or block requests from malicious clients. Additionally, you can now use both JA4 and JA3 fingerprints as aggregation keys within WAF’s rate-based rules, allowing you to monitor and control request rates based on client fingerprints. A JA4 TLS client fingerprint […]

AWS – Announcing AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio for the VS Code IDE
AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio is now available in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code, enabling you to visually create, edit, and debug state machine workflows directly in your local development environment. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating over 14,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to build […]

AWS – Announcing MQTT enabled SiteWise Edge gateways for AWS IoT SiteWise
Today, AWS announces the general availability of MQTT enabled SiteWise Edge gateways for AWS IoT SiteWise. AWS IoT SiteWise is a managed service that makes it easy to collect, store, organize, and analyze data from industrial equipment at scale. With this launch, newly created gateways now include an MQTTv5 broker component that centralizes connectivity between […]

AWS – Amazon Q Developer announces a new CLI agent within the command line
Today, Amazon Q Developer announced an enhanced CLI agent within the Amazon Q command line interface (CLI) that allows you to have more dynamic conversations. With this update, Amazon Q Developer can now use the information in your CLI environment to help you read and write files locally, query AWS resources or create code. You […]

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now available in AWS Europe (Milan) Region
We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is expanding availability to the Amazon OpenSearch Serverless to AWS Europe (Milan) Region. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. OpenSearch Serverless’ compute capacity used for […]

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now available in AWS US West (N. California) and Europe (Stockholm) Regions
We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is expanding availability to AWS US West (SFO, N. California) and Europe (ARN, Stockholm) Regions. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. OpenSearch Serverless’ compute capacity […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 M7a instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M7a instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. M7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code-named Genoa) with a maximum frequency of 3.7 GHz, deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to M6a instances. With this additional region, M7a instances are available in the […]

AWS – Sharing of Connections is now available in AWS CodeConnections
AWS CodeConnections now allows you to securely share your Connection resource across individual AWS accounts or within your AWS Organization. Previously, to create a Connection, you installed the AWS connector App for GitHub or GitLab or Bitbucket for each AWS account from which source access was required. You can now use AWS Resource Access Manager […]

GCP – Introducing built-in performance monitoring for Vertex AI Model Garden
Today, we’re announcing built-in performance monitoring and alerts for Gemini and other managed foundation models – right from Vertex AI’s homepage. Monitoring the performance of generative AI models is crucial when building lightning-fast, reliable, and scalable applications. But understanding the performance of these models has historically had a steep learning curve: in the past, you […]
GCP – Get Salesforce insights in BigQuery for unified analytics powered by Datastream
Many businesses today use Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, choosing them for their accessibility, scalability, and to reduce infrastructure overhead. These cloud-based tools provide immediate access to powerful functionality, allowing companies to streamline operations and focus on core business activities. However, as companies grow and their data needs expand, they often find their SaaS data scattered across […]