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AWS – Announcing larger General Purpose bundles for WorkSpaces Personal and Core
AWS announces GeneralPurpose.4xlarge and GeneralPurpose.8xlarge bundles for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Amazon WorkSpaces Core, providing customers with powerful cloud desktops for resource-intensive Windows workloads. GeneralPurpose.4xlarge bundles offer 16vCPUs and 64 GB RAM, while GeneralPurpose.8xlarge bundles provide 32vCPUs and 128 GB RAM. Both bundles include a 175GB root volume and a 100GB user volume and are […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex instances that deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances, are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. C7i-flex instances expand the EC2 Flex instances portfolio to provide the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a majority of compute […]
AWS – Customer Carbon Footprint Tool moved to a new dedicated page
The Customer Carbon Footprint Tool is now available on a dedicated page in the AWS Billing console, under Cost and Usage Analysis. It is no longer in the Cost and Usage Reports page, as this page is being deprecated. The Customer Carbon Footprint Tool supports customers on their sustainability journey. When signed into the AWS […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports log filtering
AWS Elemental MediaTailor now lets you filter which logs you want to capture. You can choose specific log types like Ad Server Interactions or individual events like Ad Server Responses, helping reduce costs and complexity by only collecting the data you need. To enable this feature, you add filtering parameters to your session requests to […]
AWS – AWS Marketplace now supports Tax Collection and Multiple Tax Profiles for Switzerland
AWS Marketplace now supports the collection of Swiss Value Added Tax (VAT) on sales by Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to customers located in Switzerland. This allows ISVs registered for Swiss VAT to simplify and streamline their tax operations on AWS Marketplace in Switzerland. In addition, AWS Marketplace now supports Multiple Tax Profiles for Switzerland, a […]
AWS – AWS Backup supports organization-wide reports in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, AWS is announcing the availability of AWS Backup Audit Manager support for cross-account, cross-Region reports in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Now, you can use your AWS Organizations’ management or delegated administrator account to generate aggregated cross-account and cross-Region reports on your data protection policies and retrieve operational data about your backup and recovery […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region
We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is expanding availability to the Amazon OpenSearch Serverless to Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. OpenSearch Serverless’ compute capacity used […]
GCP – Get started with Google Cloud’s built-in tokenization for sensitive data protection
In many industries including finance and healthcare, sensitive data such as payment card numbers and government identification numbers need to be secured before they can be used and shared. A common approach is applying tokenization to enhance security and manage risk. A token is a substitute value that replaces sensitive data during its use or […]
GCP – Your Single-Page Applications Are Vulnerable: Here’s How to Fix Them
Written by:Â Steven Karschnia, Truman Brown, Jacob Paullus, Daniel McNamara Executive Summary Due to their client-side nature, single-page applications (SPAs) will typically have multiple access control vulnerabilities By implementing a robust access control policy on supporting APIs, the risks associated with client-side rendering can be largely mitigated Using server-side rendering within the SPA can prevent unauthorized […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M8g instances now available in AWS Europe (Stockholm)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8g instances are available in AWS Europe (Stockholm) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 M8g instances are built for general-purpose workloads, such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data […]