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AWS – IPv6 endpoints are now available for the Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service, Amazon Time Sync Service, and Amazon VPC DNS Server
The Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service, Amazon Time Sync Service, and Amazon VPC DNS server can now be accessed over IPv6 endpoints by instances built on the Nitro System. These local instance services have IPv6 addresses that can be accessed from your Amazon EC2 instances. These IPv6 endpoints use Unique Local Addresses (ULA); IPv6 for […]
AWS – IAM Access Analyzer helps you generate fine-grained policies that specify the required actions for more than 50 services
IAM Access Analyzer helps you achieve least privilege by generating fine-grained policies that specify the required actions for more than 50 services. In April 2021, IAM Access Analyzer added policy generation to help you create IAM policies based on your AWS CloudTrail activity. Now, we are extending policy generation to identify actions used for more […]
AWS – AWS DataSync enhances task filtering and queuing
When you create an AWS DataSync task to transfer your data to and from AWS Storage, you can now specify include filters as well as exclude filters, providing you with even greater control over how your data is transferred. With this enhancement, you can now schedule tasks that utilize both exclude and include filters to transfer […]
GCP – A unified and proven Zero Trust system with BeyondCorp and BeyondProd
One of the most used buzzwords in cybersecurity today is undoubtedly “Zero Trust.” It’s been used to describe a wide range of approaches and products, leading to a fair bit of confusion about the term itself and to what it actually means. Some attempts to explain or simplify zero trust assert that “zero trust means […]
AWS – Amazon MSK adds metrics for increased visibility of capacity
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now offers greater insight into the usage of Amazon MSK resources through 19 new metrics published to Amazon CloudWatch. These metrics offer customers additional visibility into resource utilization across CPU, storage, and the network, enabling customers to maximize the performance and uptime of their Apache Kafka applications interacting […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports Boolean DB Parameter Expressions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports Boolean DB parameter expressions in PostgreSQL parameter groups, which enables database administrators to optimize more database configurations with fewer parameter groups. Read More for the details.
AWS – Comprehend launches support for tagging with analysis jobs
Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to analyze text documents and identify insights such as sentiment, entities, and topics in text. Today, we are announcing support for tagging with analysis jobs. In order to scale AI/ML within organizations, it is important to tag analysis jobs so that organizations can track […]
AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports three Availability Zone deployments in AWS GovCloud (US-EAST) Region
Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) now enables you to deploy your instances across three Availability Zones (AZs) providing better availability for your domains. If you enable replicas for your Elasticsearch indices, Amazon Elasticsearch Service distributes the primary and replica shards across nodes in different AZs to maximize availability. Read More for the details.
Azure – Java 7 will be retired from App Service on 29 July 2022
Transition to Java 11 or 8 by 29 July 2022. Read More for the details.
Azure – Community support for Azure Database PostgreSQL version 10 ends on 10 November 2022
Upgrade your Azure Database for PostgreSQL from version 10 to 11. Read More for the details.