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AWS – Amazon EC2 X2idn and X2iedn instances now available in 8 additional regions
Starting today, memory optimized Amazon EC2 X2idn and X2iedn instances are available in additional regions – Asia Pacific (Seoul, Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (London, Stockholm, Milan), South America (São Paulo) and AWS GovCloud (US-East). X2idn and X2iedn instances are designed for memory-intensive workloads and deliver improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of […]
AWS – Amazon EKS Anywhere curated packages are now in public preview
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Anywhere now allows you to enable Amazon-curated software packages that extend the core functionalities of Kubernetes on your EKS Anywhere clusters. You can install the Harbor package as a local container registry starting today, with the Emissary-Ingress package and the support for service type load balancing through MetalLB coming in […]
GCP – How a top gaming company transformed its approach to security with Splunk and Google Cloud
Since Aristocrat’s founding in 1953, technology has constantly transformed gaming and the digital demands on our gaming business are a far cry from challenges we faced when we started. As we continue to expand globally, security and compliance are top priorities. Managing IT security for several gaming subsidiaries and our core business became more complex […]
GCP – Google’s open-source solution to DFDL Processing
The cloud has become the choice for extending and modernizing applications, but there are some situations where the transition is not straightforward, such as migrating applications that access data from a mainframe environment. Migrating the data and the applications at certain points can be outsync. Mechanisms need to be in place during the transition to […]
GCP – New observability features for your Splunk Dataflow streaming pipelines
We’re thrilled to announce several new observability features for the Pub/Sub to Splunk Dataflow template to help operators keep a tab on their streaming pipeline performance. Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud customers use the Splunk Dataflow template to reliably export Google Cloud logs for in-depth analytics for security, IT or business use cases. With newly […]
AWS – Amazon VPC now supports multiple IPv6 CIDR blocks
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the launch of multiple IPv6 classless inter-domain routing (CIDR) blocks in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), enabling customer to attach up to 5 prefixes to their VPCs. Before today, customers could add up to 5 IPv4 CIDR blocks and 1 IPv6 block. With this new feature, customers can now use […]
GCP – Helping global governments and organizations adopt Zero Trust architectures
For more than a decade, Google has applied a Zero Trust approach to most aspects of our operations. Zero Trust’s core tenet–that implicit trust in any single component of a complex, interconnected system can create serious security risks–is fundamental to how we operate and build our security architecture. Early in our security journey, we realized […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics adds support for canary resources deletion when a canary is deleted
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports deletion of underlying canary resources along with the canary deletion. When you delete a canary you can choose whether to also delete related resources created by the canary, thus making canary resources management easier and efficient. Synthetics canaries that run on a defined frequency to monitor the health and performance […]
AWS – Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring now supports sending mirrored traffic to Gateway Load Balancer backed monitoring appliances
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Traffic Mirroring now supports sending mirrored traffic to monitoring appliances behind a Gateway Load Balancer. This feature enables Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring customers to centralize the out-of-band monitoring and inspection of network traffic across AWS accounts and VPCs. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Lambda adds support for Node.js 16
AWS Lambda now supports Node.js 16 as both a managed runtime and a container base image. Developers creating serverless applications in Lambda with Node.js 16 can take advantage of new features such as support for Apple silicon for local development, the timers promises API, and enhanced performance. For more information on Lambda’s support for Node.js […]