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AWS – Amazon DocumentDB achieves FedRAMP High approval in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) has achieved FedRAMP High approval in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Federal agencies, public sector organizations and other enterprises with FedRAMP High compliance requirements can now leverage Amazon DocumentDB to store and query their JSON-based document workloads. In addition to achieving FedRAMP High approval in the AWS […]
GCP – Create a powerful Kubernetes security duo with Custom Org Policy and Policy Controller
To help customers implement defense in depth strategies, Google Cloud offers multiple layers of centralized resource governance controls that can help organizations securely scale their Google Cloud adoption across thousands of projects, APIs, and developers. These controls can help administrators strengthen security and support compliance across their entire org, without introducing additional overhead in the […]
GCP – Apigee and the Interoperability Model (ModI) for the Italian Public Administration
Apigee API Management allows the Italian Public Administration and its customers, suppliers, and system integrators to achieve full compliance with the new Interoperability Model (source New Interoperability Model – ModI) written and designed by Agency for Digital Italy (AgID). Apigee as ModI platform enabler One of the key aspects of the ModI is promoting the […]
GCP – Announcing Apache Airflow operators for Google generative AI
The data analytics landscape is evolving rapidly, and generative AI is a driving force behind this transformation. By generating meaningful content from data, generative models are changing how we approach data-driven decision-making. Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, a unified AI development platform, offers powerful generative models such as Gemini that lead this innovation. Now, it’s never […]
AWS – Amazon Cognito enhances Advanced Security Features (ASF) to detect additional risks and to cover custom authentication flows
Amazon Cognito enhances Advanced Security Features (ASF) to detect additional risk factors and cover custom authentication flows. ASF now identifies risks such as impossible travel, where a user signs in from two different locations in a time period implausible for travel between them. Additionally, ASF now detects risks in custom authentication flows. Customers can improve […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances are now available in US West (Oregon) Region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex instances that deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances, are available in US West (Oregon) region. C7i-flex instances expand the EC2 Flex instances portfolio to provide the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a majority of compute intensive […]
AWS – AWS announces private IPv6 addressing for VPCs and subnets
AWS announces the general availability of private IPv6 addressing for VPCs and subnets with Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM). On AWS, private IPv6 addresses can take the form of Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses (ULA) and Global Unicast Addresses (GUA), and can only be used for private access. These IPv6 addresses are not and […]
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client now supports Amazon WorkSpaces Pools
AWS today announced support for Amazon WorkSpaces Pools on Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client. With this launch, Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client customers have the flexibility to choose between Amazon WorkSpaces Personal, a fully persistent virtual desktop, and WorkSpaces Pools, a cost-effective, non-persistent virtual desktop, with support for existing Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise licenses to help […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Db2 supports loading data from Amazon S3
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Db2 now supports loading data from Amazon S3 into Db2 databases. With Amazon RDS for Db2, you can use a Db2 client to load data into your Db2 databases using locally stored files on the client machine. However, the load cannot be performed if the locally stored data […]
AWS – AWS Glue Data Catalog views are now GA with Amazon Athena and Amazon Redshift
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Glue Data Catalog views for Athena and Redshift. AWS Glue Data Catalog views are a new capability that allows customers to create, grant permissions on, and query multi-engine SQL views in AWS Glue Data Catalog from Amazon Athena and Amazon Redshift. With AWS Glue Data Catalog views […]