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AWS – Amazon SageMaker AI now supports M7i, C7i, and R7i for SageMaker Model Training and SageMaker Processing
Amazon SageMaker AI is pleased to announce support for M7i, C7i, and R7i instance types for SageMaker Model Training and SageMaker Processing. Amazon SageMaker Model Training lets you easily train machine learning models at scale using fully managed infrastructure optimized for performance and cost. Amazon SageMaker Processing makes it easy to run data pre-processing, post-processing, […]

AWS – Amazon MSK expands Express Brokers to Mexico (Central) and Asia Pacific (Thailand) regions
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) has added support for Express Brokers in Mexico (Central) and Asia Pacific (Thailand) regions. Express brokers are a new broker type for Amazon MSK Provisioned designed to deliver up to 3x more throughput per broker, scale up to 20x faster, and reduce recovery time by 90% as […]

AWS – AWS Marketplace now provides an enhanced selling authorization experience for Independent Software Vendors
AWS Marketplace helps Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) manage their AWS Marketplace Channel Partner relationships through selling authorizations, allowing channel partners to resell ISV products. Starting today, ISVs can access an enhanced selling authorization experience through the AWS Marketplace Management Portal. This update streamlines the process, making it more efficient to manage channel operations. The redesigned […]

AWS – AWS Backup Audit Manager is now available in six additional regions
AWS Backup Audit Manager is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne), Europe (Spain, Zurich), and Middle East (UAE) Regions. AWS Backup Audit Manager is a feature within AWS Backup that allows you to audit and report on the compliance of your data protection policies to help you meet your business and regulatory needs. […]

AWS – Amazon Inspector launches code security to shift security left in development
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of Amazon Inspector code security capabilities, helping you secure your applications before they reach production. This new feature, with native integration to GitHub and GitLab, helps you rapidly identify and prioritize security vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across your application source-code, dependencies, and infrastructure as code (IaC). You […]

AWS – Amazon ECR enhanced scanning now surfaces image use status
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) enhanced scanning now surfaces how an image is used on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), including last used date, the number of clusters that the image was used, and the cluster ARNs. You can use this information to prioritize vulnerability remediation for images that […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 M7i-flex 12xlarge and 16xlarge instances are now available in AWS Europe (London) Region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i-flex 12xlarge and 16xlarge instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Europe (London) region. 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 […]

AWS – AWS Backup launches Multi-party approval support for logically air-gapped vaults
AWS Backup announces support for Multi-party approval in AWS Organizations for logically air-gapped vaults to enhance data recovery. This new AWS Backup feature enables customers to authorize access to backups for approved accounts in logically air-gapped vaults, even when the owning account becomes inaccessible due to inadvertent or malicious events. Multi-party approval is a new […]

AWS – Express.js developers can now add authorization in minutes with Amazon Verified Permissions
Today, AWS announces the release of @verifiedpermissions/authorization-clients-js, an open source package that enables developers to implement authorization in their Express.js web application APIs in minutes. This simplifies development and improves application security by significantly reducing the custom authorization code compared to traditional approaches where authorization logic was embedded into the application. With this package, developers […]
AWS – AWS WAF reduces web application security configuration steps and provides expert-level protection
Today, AWS announces general availability of the AWS WAF simplified console experience that reduces web application security configuration steps by up to 80% and provides expert-level protection to help you optimize application security. AWS WAF helps protect web applications and APIs against common web exploits and bots that could affect availability, compromise security, or consume […]