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GCP – Ensuring internet resilience: Catchpoint IPM now available on Google Cloud Marketplace
The web usually works amazingly well — but what happens when it doesn’t? We expect seamless access to our applications and services at any time — our business depends on it. However, a lot of the time, this expectation doesn’t always match reality. Far from being a magically resilient and infallible network, the internet (both […]
GCP – DeFied Expectations — Examining Web3 Heists
Written by: Robert Wallace, Blas Kojusner, Joseph Dobson Where money goes, crime follows. The rapid growth of Web3 has presented new opportunities for threat actors, especially in decentralized finance (DeFi), where the heists are larger and more numerous than anything seen in the traditional finance sector. Mandiant has a long history of investigating bank heists. […]
AWS – Organizational Units in AWS Control Tower can now contain up to 1,000 accounts
AWS Control Tower now allows you to register Organizational Units (OUs) containing up to 1,000 accounts. With this launch, you can implement governance best practices and standardize configurations across the accounts in your OUs at greater scale. When you register an OU or enable the AWS Control Tower baseline on an OU, member accounts receive […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Serverless now supports AWS PrivateLink
Amazon Redshift Serverless now supports AWS PrivateLink (interface VPC endpoint) to connect to Amazon Redshift Serverless. You can now connect directly to the Amazon Redshift Serverless and Amazon Redshift Serverless API services using AWS PrivateLink in your virtual private cloud (VPC) instead of connecting over the internet. When you use an AWS PrivateLink, communication between […]
AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise models now support versioning
AWS IoT SiteWise now supports asset model and component model versioning. This new capability is designed to help industrial customers and integrators manage the evolution of their asset models and component models more effectively. With asset model and component model versioning, industrial customers can now fetch the active version of their asset model and component […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub launches 8 new security controls
AWS Security Hub has released 8 new security controls, increasing the total number of controls offered to 423. With this release, Security Hub now supports controls for additional AWS services such as Amazon WorkSpaces and AWS DataSync . Security Hub also released new controls against previously supported services like AWS CodeBuild and Amazon Athena. For […]
AWS – AWS Amplify introduces new function capabilities with scheduled cron jobs and streaming logs
AWS Amplify now offers two new features for its Functions capability: Scheduled Cron Jobs and Streaming Logs. Cron Jobs allow developers to configure serverless functions to run at specific intervals, while Streaming Logs enable developers to quickly iterate and test function execution by streaming logs directly to their terminal. The scheduling feature allows developers to […]
AWS – AWS WAF enhances rate-based rules to support lower rate limits
AWS WAF now supports setting lower rate limit thresholds for rate-based rules. Customers can now configure rate-based rules with rate limits as low as 10 requests per evaluation window, compared to the previous minimum of 100 requests. With AWS WAF rate-based rules, customers can count incoming requests and limit traffic that exceeds a defined request […]
AWS – Amazon Personalize enhances automatic solution training
Amazon Personalize is excited to introduce the ability for developers to modify automatic training configurations after a Personalize solution has been created. With this launch, developers gain greater flexibility over the automatic training process for both new and existing solutions. Previously, changing configurations like training frequency required re-creating the solution entirely. Now, you can easily […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Managed Scaling is now Application Master placement aware
Today, we are excited to announce a new enhancement in EMR Managed Scaling that improves application resiliency and scales the cluster based on executor and ApplicationMasters demand by adding support for Yarn Node Labels. Amazon EMR by default ensures that the processes that controls running jobs and needs to stay alive for the life of the […]