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GCP – Hacking Beyond.com — Enumerating Private TLDs
Written by: Idan Ron Background My story started a few months ago, when I performed a red team assessment for a major retail company. During the Open Source Reconnaissance (OSINT) phase, I reviewed the SSL certificates that included the client name. In these certificates I identified that the client owned its own top-level domain […]
AWS – Amazon EKS introduces EKS Pod Identity in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, Amazon EKS introduces EKS Pod Identity, a new feature that simplifies how cluster administrators can configure Kubernetes applications to obtain AWS IAM permissions in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. These permissions can now be easily configured with fewer steps directly through EKS console, APIs, and CLI. EKS Pod Identity makes it easy to use […]
AWS – Announcing Karpenter 1.0
Today, with the release of Karpenter version 1.0.0, Karpenter’s APIs graduate out of beta. Karpenter is a flexible, efficient, and high-performance Kubernetes compute management solution that helps improve application availability, reduce operational overhead, and increase cluster compute utilization. This release also includes three new features which provide customers greater control over how and when Karpenter […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 now supports query import
Amazon Redshift announces support for the query import feature in Query Editor V2, enabling you to bring your existing SQL queries into the editor. This functionality streamlines workflows for data analysts, engineers, and developers working with Amazon Redshift by allowing them to upload one or more SQL files on their desktop to the query editor. […]
AWS – Amazon Q in QuickSight is now available in 5 additional regions
Amazon Q in QuickSight is now generally available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Ireland), South America (São Paulo), Europe (London), Canada (Central), in addition to the existing Europe (Frankfurt), US East (N. Virginia), and US West (Oregon) regions. This expansion brings the power of Generative Business Intelligence to more customers, enabling them to leverage natural […]
AWS – New capabilities for Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations: Split, Move, and Modify additional attributes
Today, we are introducing new capabilities for managing Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations which enable you to split your Capacity Reservations, move capacity between Capacity Reservations, and modify your Capacity Reservation’s instance eligibility attribute. On-Demand Capacity Reservations help you to reserve compute capacity for your workloads in a specific Availability Zone for any duration. When […]
GCP – Looker opens semantic layer via new SQL Interface and connectors for Tableau & others
Data is the driving force of innovation for your business, especially in a world of accelerating AI adoption. But many data-driven organizations struggle with inconsistent and unreliable metrics. Without a single source of truth for data definitions, metrics can have different logic depending on what tool or team they came from. Teams that can’t trust […]
GCP – The top AI courses for a summer of learning with Google Cloud
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GCP – From gRPC to RESTful APIs: Expose your gRPC services to the REST of the world
When designing a modern microservice architecture, performance is obviously key. Even outside of high-frequency trading and near-real time systems, extra milliseconds in inter-service communication matter a lot for the overall user experience. In this environment, gRPC has emerged as a high-performance communication protocol and is widely adopted for its low latency, efficient serialization and strongly […]
AWS – AWS HealthOmics now supports DSL and Nextflow version detection
We are excited to announce that AWS HealthOmics now supports the ability to specify Domain Specific Language (DSL) and Nextflow version when creating private workflows. AWS HealthOmics is a fully managed service that helps healthcare and life science organizations build at-scale to store, query, and analyze genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data to improve health […]