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GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Talk cyber in business terms to win allies
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for January 2025. We’re starting off the year at the top with boards of directors, and how talking about cybersecurity in business terms can help us better convey the costs and priority and priority of the cybersecurity risks we face. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents […]
GCP – GKE delivers breakthrough Horizontal Pod Autoscaler performance
At Google Cloud, we are committed to providing the fastest and most reliable Kubernetes platform, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Today, we are excited to announce an improved Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), the Kubernetes feature that automatically updates workload resources to match demand. We rearchitected the HPA stack, resulting in a significant improvement in scaling performance. […]
GCP – The EU’s DORA regulation has arrived. Google Cloud is ready to help
As the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) takes effect today, financial entities in the EU must rise to a new level of operational resilience in the face of ever-evolving digital threats. At Google Cloud, we share your commitment to the goals of DORA. We believe in building a more resilient and secure financial sector, and […]
AWS – AWS CodePipeline introduces new debugging experience in AWS Management Console
AWS CodePipeline now offers an enhanced debugging experience in the AWS Management Console, enabling you to identify and resolve pipeline failures more efficiently. The new debugging interface introduces a dedicated debugging page, accessible through the left navigation bar’s “Action details” button. This page presents a simplified pipeline view with execution and action details displayed in […]
AWS – The AWS Management Console now supports simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts
Today, AWS announces multi-sesssion support which enables customers to access multiple AWS accounts in the AWS Console. Customers can sign-in to up to 5 sessions in a single browser, and this can be any combination of root, IAM, or federated roles in different accounts or in the same account. Customer applications scale multiple accounts following […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens dashboards now provide configurable groupings and filters
Amazon Connect Contact Lens dashboards now allow you to define widget level filters and groupings, re-order and re-size columns, and delete or add new metrics. With these dashboards, you can view and compare real-time and historical aggregated performance, trends, and insights using custom-defined time periods (e.g., week over week), summary charts, time-series chart, etc. Now, […]
AWS – Introducing new larger sizes on Amazon EC2 Flex instances
AWS announces the general availability of two new larger sizes (12xlarge and 16xlarge) on Amazon EC2 Flex (C7i-flex, M7i-flex) instances. The new sizes expand the EC2 Flex portfolio, providing additional compute options to scale-up existing workloads or run larger sized applications that need additional memory. These instances are powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens launches new real-time dashboard
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now offers a new dashboard that lets you monitor real-time agent activity and take immediate actions such as listen-in to a contact, barge (take over) a contact, or change an agent state in a few clicks from a single interface. With this dashboard, you can view and compare real-time and historical […]
AWS – Amazon GuardDuty is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. You can now use this additional Region to continuously monitor and detect anomalous behavior, security threats, and sophisticated multi-stage attack sequences targeting your AWS accounts to help protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data. Tens of thousands of customers across many industries and geographies […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS Europe (Spain) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 R8g instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory […]