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Azure – Microsoft Defender for Cloud: General availability updates for November 2021
New enhancements and updates released for general availability (GA) in Microsoft Defender for Cloud in November 2021. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS AppSync now supports custom domain names for AppSync GraphQL endpoints
Today, we are releasing a new feature in AWS AppSync that allows customers to use custom domain names with their AWS AppSync GraphQL APIs. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Aurora R6g instances, powered by AWS Graviton2 processors, are now available in Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), and Europe (Stockholm) Regions
AWS Graviton2-based R6g database instances are now available in Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), and Europe (Stockholm) regions for Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition. Read More for the details.
GCP – AI for all humans: A course to delight and inspire!
Making Friends with Machine Learning was a legendary internal-only Google course specially created to inspire beginners and amuse experts. Today, it is available to everyone! You can now enjoy it by following these links: Part 1 — Introduction to ML: bit.ly/mfml_part1 Part 2 — Life of a Machine Learning Project: bit.ly/mfml_part2 Part 3 — AI […]
AWS – AWS WAF adds support for CloudWatch Log and logging directly to S3 bucket
You can now send AWS WAF logs directly to a CloudWatch Logs log group or to an Amazon S3 bucket. With this launch, we’re adding two new optional destinations for WAF logs in addition to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, which was already supported. When you use CloudWatch Logs as your WAF log destination, you can […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager now offers console based viewing and management of instance processes
Fleet Manager, a feature in AWS Systems Manager (SSM) that helps IT Admins streamline and scale their remote server management tasks, now offers an easy console-based experience for customers to view and manage processes on their instances. This new feature provides customers a consolidated view of the processes running on an instance coupled with the […]
AWS – NICE EnginFrame adds AWS HPC cluster management with AWS ParallelCluster
Today we are announcing general availability of NICE EnginFrame 2021.0. NICE EnginFrame is an easy-to-use, web front-end that makes HPC job submission and management easier for customers. With this latest release, customers are able to use NICE EnginFrame across both on-premises and AWS environments using its new AWS HPC Connector feature. Where customers may have […]
AWS – Amazon Pinpoint now includes a one-time password (OTP) management feature
Amazon Pinpoint now includes a one-time password (OTP) management feature. An OTP is an automatically generated string of characters that authenticates a user for a single login attempt or transaction. The OTP feature makes it easier to add OTP workflows to your application, site, or service. You can use this feature to generate new OTP […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift launches RA3 self-service RI migration feature in the Amazon Redshift Console.
Amazon Redshift has launched the ability to run a single-node RA3.xlplus cluster. Amazon Redshift RA3 clusters support many important features including Amazon Redshift Managed Storage (RMS), data sharing and AQUA. Single-node RA3.xlplus clusters allow you to take advantage of the most advanced Redshift features at a lower cost. You can migrate single-node DS2.xlarge or single-node DC2.large clusters […]
GCP – Enabling keyless authentication from GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions is a third-party CI/CD solution popular among many Google Cloud customers and developers. When a GitHub Actions Workflow needs to read or mutate resources on Google Cloud – such as publishing a container to Artifact Registry or deploying a new service with Cloud Run – it must first authenticate. Traditionally, authenticating from GitHub […]