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AWS – Digital twin is now generally available for AWS Ground Station
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of the digital twin feature for AWS Ground Station, which provides virtualized ground station infrastructure that allows you to perform space-to-ground compatibility testing. AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, process data, and scale your operations without having to worry […]
AWS – Amazon ECS provides the ability to restart containers without requiring a task relaunch
Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) now improves container resiliency by giving you the ability to define a flexible container restart policy for restarting individual containers locally, without requiring a full task relaunch. With local container restarts, Amazon ECS can recover your containers from unexpected failures within a few seconds, enhancing your overall task stability […]
AWS – AWS CodeBuild now supports multiple access tokens via AWS Secrets Manager
AWS CodeBuild now supports configuring multiple access tokens for each source provider. You can store your OAuth or personal access tokens in AWS Secrets Manager, and specify them in CodeBuild projects. This feature is available for your GitHub, GitHub Enterprise and Bitbucket source repositories. With multiple access tokens, you can use different tokens with scoped […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower launches landing zone version selection
AWS Control Tower customers can now select from a set of versions when performing a landing zone update, reset, or upgrade operation. Starting with landing zone version 3.1 and above, customers can update or reset in-place their landing zone on their current version, or upgrade to a version of their choice. A landing zone is […]
AWS – AWS CodeBuild now supports using GitHub Apps to access source repositories
AWS CodeBuild now integrates with GitHub Apps as the authentication method to access your repositories. A GitHub App connection can be set as the default authentication method for all projects, or can be specified for an individual project source. With GitHub Apps, you can use short-lived tokens with fine-grained permissions, and have control over which […]
GCP – Try the new Managed Service for Apache Kafka and take cluster management off your todo list
You can learn a lot from running a distributed storage system like Apache Kafka™. You start by designing and setting up security and networking for your cluster and then develop processes and tools for reliable operation and upgrades. All the while, you negotiate scaling up for new traffic and down to save money. This is […]
GCP – Meet the nine new web delivery partner integrations coming via Service Extensions
We announced the general availability of Service Extensions callouts for Google Cloud Application Load Balancers during Google Cloud Next ‘24. Service Extensions callouts allow organizations to customize and extend their Application Load Balancers using gRPC calls to user or partner managed services during data processing. Today, we are excited to share some more exciting news: […]
GCP – Advanced networking demos – Cloud NAT and NGFW edition
Are you curious about the new enhancements in Cloud NAT? Have you explored Cloud NGFW Enterprise? In this blog we dive into both of these topics with informative video demos on both that you can watch at any time. # 1- Cloud NAT and NGFWs Cloud NAT and Cloud NGFW are Google Cloud’s distributed cloud-managed […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Why we need to get ready for PQC
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2024. Today I’m adapting our upcoming Perspectives on Security for the Board report. It examines three key cybersecurity topics from the vantage of the board of directors: multifactor authentication, digital sovereignty, and — the one I’ll be focusing on here — post-quantum cryptography. As with all […]
GCP – Yahoo compares Dataflow vs. self-managed Apache Flink for two streaming use-cases
Yahoo is constantly seeking ways to optimize the efficiency of streaming large-scale data processing pipelines. In a recent project, Google Cloud and Yahoo focused on benchmarking the cost and performance for two specific use cases on two stack choices: Apache Flink in a self-managed environment, and Google Cloud Dataflow. In this post, we details our […]