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AWS – AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN Launches Two New Features to Manage and Monitor Communications Between Device and Cloud
AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN is a fully managed LoRaWAN Network Server (LNS) of AWS IoT Core that allows customers to connect wireless devices to the AWS cloud using the low-power long-range wide area network (LoRaWAN) technology. Now, AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN supports two new features, Downlink Queue Management and Network Analyzer, to help […]
AWS – Amazon ECR adds the ability to monitor repository pull statistics
Today, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) launched the ability to monitor repository pull statistics through Amazon CloudWatch. The new pull statistics helps you to monitor usage patterns or identify anomalous behavior by observing image pull requests per repository. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 now provides application entitlements for SAML 2.0 federated user identities
Starting today, you can control access to specific applications within your Amazon AppStream 2.0 stacks based on SAML 2.0 attribute assertions. In addition, your SAML 2.0 federated user identities can access multiple AppStream 2.0 stacks from a single SAML 2.0 service provider (SP) application. Previously, each stack required a separate service provider application configured in […]
Azure – Azure Traffic Manager: Additional IP addresses for endpoint monitoring service.
Update your network access control rules if you see Traffic Manager health probes with new IP addresses. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations now support Cluster Placement Groups
Starting today, customers can use Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations to reserve capacity for cluster placement groups. With cluster placement groups, customers can launch EC2 instances into logical groups within a segment of the network with high bisection bandwidth, thus getting low latency and high throughput between instances inside the cluster. Cluster placement groups are […]
AWS – Instance Tags now available on the Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service
You can now access your instance’s tags from the EC2 Instance Metadata Service. Tags enable you to categorize your AWS resources in different ways, for example, by purpose, owner, or environment. This is useful when you have many resources of the same type—you can quickly identify a specific resource based on the tags that you’ve […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports ES Modules and Top-Level Await for Node.js 14
AWS Lambda functions using the Node.js 14 runtime now support code packaged as ECMAScript modules, allowing Lambda customers to consume a wider range of JavaScript packages in their Lambda functions. In addition, Lambda customers can now take advantage of ‘top-level await’, a Node.js 14 language feature. When used with Provisioned Concurrency, this improves cold-start performance […]
AWS – Fine grained access control now supported on existing Amazon OpenSearch Service domains
Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports enabling fine-grained access control on existing domains. Fine-grained access control adds several capabilities to help you have better access control over the data stored in your domain. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR on EKS adds support for customized container images for interactive jobs run using managed endpoints
Amazon EMR on EKS enables customers to easily run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark on Amazon EKS. Amazon EMR on EKS customers setup and use a managed endpoint (available in preview) to run interactive workloads using integrated development environments (IDE) such as EMR Studio. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI support for local testing of AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
Today AWS is announcing the general availability of AWS Serverless Application Model CLI (AWS SAM CLI) support for local testing of AWS Cloud Development Kit applications. AWS SAM and AWS CDK are both open-source frameworks for building applications using infrastructure as code (IaC). AWS SAM is made up of the SAM template, which is a […]
