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AWS – Amazon GuardDuty now detects EC2 instance credentials used from another AWS account
Amazon GuardDuty introduces a new threat detection that informs you when your EC2 instance credentials are used to invoke APIs from an IP address that is owned by a different AWS account than the one that the associated EC2 instance is running in. The new finding type is: UnauthorizedAccess:IAMUser/InstanceCredentialExfiltration.InsideAWS. While Amazon GuardDuty has always informed […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Object Ownership can now disable access control lists in the AWS China (Beijing), AWS China (Ningxia), and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
You can now use the Amazon S3 Object Ownership setting, Bucket owner enforced, to disable access control lists (ACLs) in the AWS China (Beijing), AWS China (Ningxia), and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, simplifying access management for data stored in S3. When you apply this bucket-level setting, every object in an S3 bucket is owned by […]
AWS – AWS Client VPN now supports banner text and maximum session duration
AWS Client VPN now provides the ability for all customers to display a customizable banner on the AWS Client VPN Desktop application when a VPN session is established. The banner text can contain privacy and security notices that will be displayed to end-users before granting VPN access. Customers will now be able to configure the […]
AWS – Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark SQL to insert data into and update Glue Data Catalog tables when Lake Formation integration is enabled
We are announcing the support of using Apache Spark SQL to update Glue Data Catalog tables when using Amazon EMR integration with AWS Lake Formation. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Azure Monitor log alerts new version
Scheduled Query Rules API version 2021-08-01 is now available and fully supported, replacing API version 2021-02-01-preview. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure DevOps updates
You can now see multiple improvements to the Copy Dashboard preview and try out a new feature which automatically retry a task in a pipeline when it fails. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Rekognition improves accuracy of Content Moderation for Video
Amazon Rekognition content moderation is a deep learning-based feature that can detect inappropriate, unwanted, or offensive images and videos, making it easier to find and remove such content at scale. Amazon Rekognition provides a detailed taxonomy across 35 sub-categories and 10 distinct top-level moderation categories. On 11/05/2021, we launched an update with improved model for image moderation […]
GCP – Bio-pharma organizations can now leverage the groundbreaking protein folding system, AlphaFold, with Vertex AI
At Google Cloud, we believe the products we bring to market should be strongly informed by our research efforts across Alphabet. For example, Vertex AI was ideated, incubated and developed based on the pioneering research from Google’s research entities. Features like Vertex AI Forecast, Explainable AI, Vertex AI Neural Architecture Search (NAS) and Vertex AI […]
GCP – Find products faster with the new All Products page
Welcome to a new way of exploring Google Cloud products. Finding your favorite products and discovering new ones requires a user interface that’s easy-to-use, clear, informative, and delightful. Google Cloud users have primarily used our side menu to navigate, but with almost one hundred products and growing, it’s safe to say our product list has […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub integrates with AWS Health
AWS Security Hub is now integrated with AWS Health and automatically receives security-related findings from AWS Health to provide you with a more complete view of your AWS security posture. AWS Health delivers alerts about your resource performance and the availability of your AWS services and accounts. AWS Health alerts also cover some security topics, and […]