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AWS – AWS Security Hub adds three new FSBP controls and three new partners
AWS Security Hub has released three new controls for its Foundational Security Best Practice standard (FSBP) to enhance customers’ Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM). These controls conduct fully-automatic checks against security best practices for Elastic Load Balancing and AWS Systems Manager. If you have Security Hub set to automatically enable new controls and are already using AWS […]

GCP – A learning journey for members transitioning out of the military
Each year, about 200,000 U.S. veterans transition out of military service. However, despite being well-equipped to work in the tech sector, many of these veterans are unable to identify a clear career path. In fact, a2019 survey found that many veterans feel unprepared for the job market after their service and are unaware of how […]

AWS – Manage Access Centrally for JumpCloud Users with AWS Single Sign-On
Customers can now connect their JumpCloud Directory Platform (JumpCloud) to Amazon Web Services Single Sign-On (SSO) once, manage access to AWS centrally in AWS SSO, and enable end users to sign in using JumpCloud to access all their assigned AWS accounts. The integration helps customers simplify AWS access management across multiple accounts while maintaining familiar […]

AWS – Announcing general availability of AWS Resilience Hub
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability of AWS Resilience Hub, a new service that provides you with a single place to define, validate, and track the resilience of your applications so that you can avoid unnecessary downtime caused by software, infrastructure, or operational disruptions. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate now Supports the Fluent Bit Kubernetes Filter
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) on Fargate now supports the use of Kubernetes Fluent Bit filters which provide enriched Kubernetes-specific metadata to Fluent Bit logs. Customers can now more easily observe and troubleshoot their applications by using the Kubernetes pod, container, or namespace name, among other Kubernetes metadata, to associate with their applications’ logs. Read […]

AWS – AWS Backup provides new resource assignment rules for your data protection policies
AWS Backup introduces new resource assignment options that help make it easier to manage data protection of your applications at scale. The new resource assignment options allow you to define your selection criteria using AWS-supported resource types, a combination of AWS tags and Resource IDs, enabling you to automatically identify the AWS resources that store data […]

AWS – Amazon ECS now adds container instance health information
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now provides customers enhanced visibility into the health of their compute infrastructure. Customers running containerized workloads using Amazon ECS on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) or on-premises with Amazon ECS Anywhere can now query the health status of the container runtime (i.e Docker) for their container instances directly from the […]

AWS – AWS Control Tower now supports concurrent operations for detective guardrails
AWS Control Tower now supports concurrent operations for detective guardrails to help expedite guardrail management. You can now enable multiple detective guardrails without needing to wait for individual guardrail operations to complete. AWS Control Tower provides customers with out-of-the-box preventive and detective guardrails that you can deploy to increase your security, operational, and compliance posture. Read […]

AWS – Announcing new deployment guardrails for Amazon SageMaker Inference endpoints
Amazon SageMaker Inference now supports new model deployment options to update your machine learning models in production. Using the new deployment guardrails, you can easily switch from the current model in production to a new one in a controlled way. This launch introduces canary and linear traffic shifting modes so that you can have granular control over the shifting […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Archive rehydration priority update
Reduce high-priority retrieval costs for Archive Storage by deferring the decision to rehydrate with high priority, then updating the priority while the operation is pending. Read More for the details.