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GCP – ScatterBrain: Unmasking the Shadow of PoisonPlug’s Obfuscator
Written by: Nino Isakovic Introduction Since 2022, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has been tracking multiple cyber espionage operations conducted by China-nexus actors utilizing POISONPLUG.SHADOW. These operations employ a custom obfuscating compiler that we refer to as “ScatterBrain,” facilitating attacks against various entities across Europe and the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. ScatterBrain appears to be […]
AWS – Announcing support for Maxon Cinema 4D and Maxon Redshift in AWS Deadline Cloud
AWS Deadline Cloud now supports Maxon Cinema 4D and Maxon Redshift in its Service-Managed Fleets and Customer-Managed Fleets. With this update, creative teams can seamlessly leverage the cloud to render complex projects and access flexible Usage-Based Licensing (UBL). With AWS Deadline Cloud, you can submit Cinema 4D jobs to Deadline Cloud without having to manage […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Metadata is now generally available
AWS announces the general availability of Amazon S3 Metadata, the easiest and fastest way to discover and understand your Amazon S3 data. S3 Metadata provides automated and easily queried metadata that updates in near real time, simplifying business analytics, real-time inference applications, and more. S3 Metadata supports object metadata, which includes system-defined details like size […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaConnect introduces content quality metrics
AWS Elemental MediaConnect now supports a set of diagnostic metrics designed to provide visibility into the quality of your video and audio streams. The new metrics detect black frames, frozen video, and audio silence allowing you to quickly identify and address potential disruptions. This level of monitoring goes beyond traditional network performance indicators by analyzing […]
AWS – Announcing general availability of AWS Managed Notifications
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing the general availability of AWS Managed Notifications, a new feature of AWS User Notifications that enhances how customers receive and manage AWS Health notifications. This feature allows you to view and modify default AWS Health notifications in the Console Notifications Center, alongside your custom notifications such as CloudWatch alarms. […]
AWS – AWS now supports Zone Groups for Availability Zones
AWS now supports the Zone Groups for Availability Zones across all AWS Regions, making it easier for you to differentiate groups of Local Zones and Availability Zones. Zone Groups were initially launched to help you identify related groups of Local Zones that reside in the same geography. For example, the two interconnected Local Zones in […]
AWS – Amazon EKS managed node groups introduces new update strategies
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now offers new update strategies for managed node groups, giving you control over how Amazon EC2 instances in your clusters are updated with new configurations or for new Kubernetes versions. This feature provides flexibility to make changes to your Amazon EKS cluster nodes in a way that best suits […]
AWS – Announcing AWS Managed Notifications in the AWS Console Mobile App
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing the general availability of AWS Managed Notifications in the AWS Console Mobile Application. You can now get push notifications for default AWS Health notifications and view them in the AWS Console Mobile Application’s notification inbox, alongside your user-configured notifications such as CloudWatch alarms. To get started, visit the […]
GCP – Privacy-preserving Confidential Computing now on even more machines and services
Organizations are increasingly using Confidential Computing to help protect their sensitive data in use as part of their data protection efforts. Today, we are excited to highlight new Confidential Computing capabilities that make it easier for organizations of all sizes to adopt this important privacy-preserving technology. 1. Confidential GKE Nodes on the general-purpose C3D machine […]
GCP – Cloud migrations made easy: a guide to migrating from AWS to Google Cloud
More and more customers deploy their workloads on Google Cloud. But what if your workloads are sitting in another cloud? Planning, designing, and implementing a migration of your workloads, data, and processes is not an easy task. It gets even harder if you have to meet requirements that have an impact on the migration, such […]