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GCP – Security Command Center – Increasing operational efficiency with new mute findings capability
Security Command Center (SCC) is Google Cloud’s security and risk management platform that helps manage and improve your cloud security and risk posture. It is used by organizations globally to protect their environments providing visibility into cloud assets, discovering misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, detecting threats, and helping to maintain compliance with industry standards and benchmarks. SCC […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches APIs to archive and delete contact flows
Amazon Connect now provides two new APIs to archive/unarchive and delete contact flows. The new APIs provide a programmatic and flexible way to manage your library of contact flows at scale. For example, contact flows used only during certain times of the year can be archived when not in use and then unarchived when needed. […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift launches RA3 Reserved Instance migration feature
Amazon Redshift RA3 Reserved Instance (RI) migration feature is now available in the Amazon Redshift Console, CLI and API to help migrate your DS2 RI clusters to RA3 RI clusters. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Improved legends in IoT Central Analytics charts
Grouping by Device Name is now supported in IoT Central Analytics charts. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCasv5 and ECasv5-series now available
New DCasv5 and ECasv5-series Azure Confidential Virtual Machines are available in public preview Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Lambda launches the metric OffsetLag for Amazon MSK, Self-managed Kafka, AmazonMQ, and RabbitMQ
AWS Lambda has launched a new metric, OffsetLag, to monitor the performance of Amazon MSK, Self-managed Kafka, AmazonMQ, and RabbitMQ message queueing services. Up until now, Lambda users did not have visibility into how polling runs and had to increasingly rely on the Lambda support team to resolve delays in processing, leading to inefficiencies in […]
AWS – Introducing two new Amazon EC2 bare metal instances
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6i and C6i bare metal instances are available. M6i and C6i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, offer up to 15% better compute price performance over M5 and C5 instances respectively, and always-on memory encryption […]
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache now supports T4g Graviton2-based instances
Amazon ElastiCache now supports the AWS Graviton2-based T4g instance family in the following regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), US West (Northern California), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Frankfurt), South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Proxy now supports PostgreSQL major version 12
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy now supports RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL – Compatible Edition major version 12. PostgreSQL 12 includes better management of indexing, improved partitioning capabilities, JSON path queries per SQL/JSON specifications, and many other additional features. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 Mac Instances now support macOS Monterey
Starting today, customers can run macOS Monterey (12.0.1) as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) on Amazon EC2 Mac instances. Apple macOS Monterey is the current major macOS release from Apple, and introduces multiple new capabilities and performance improvements over prior macOS versions. macOS Monterey supports running Xcode versions 13.0 and later, which include the latest SDKs […]