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GCP – Sniip takes the sting out of paying bills with the help of Google Cloud
It’s been said that nothing in life is certain but death and taxes. You could also add paying bills to that! Beyond the fact that bills separate people from their money, which can be painful for many, too often the online bill-paying process compounds the challenges: To pay some bills, you might have to log […]
GCP – In an era of remote work and data security awareness, ABN AMRO chooses CloudReady and Chrome OS
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Markus Hap, CTO for APAC, and Joost van Doorn, Deputy CTO for APAC and Head of Technology Office, both for ABN AMRO, the Dutch financial services company. ABN AMRO’s Asia-Pacific region team, based in Singapore, is using Chrome OS and CloudReady to work securely in the cloud, reduce total cost […]
AWS – Announcing Personal Identifiable Information (PII) detection and remediation in AWS Glue (Preview)
Personal Identifiable Information (PII) detection and remediation in AWS Glue is now available in preview. This feature uses pattern matching and machine learning to automatically detect PII at both the column and cell levels during an AWS Glue job run. AWS Glue includes options to log the type of PII and its location and immediately take […]
AWS – Introducing AWS Glue Interactive Sessions and Job Notebooks (Preview)
Previews are now available for AWS Glue Interactive Sessions and Job Notebooks, two new serverless features of AWS Glue that help simplify the process of developing data integration jobs. Interactive Sessions enable data engineers to interactively explore and prepare data. Glue Studio Job Notebooks provide serverless notebooks with minimal setup so developers can get started […]
AWS – AWS Storage Gateway now supports Dell EMC NetWorker 19.5 and Veeam Backup & Replication 11A on Tape Gateway
AWS Storage Gateway now supports Dell EMC NetWorker 19.5 and Veeam Backup & Replication 11A on Tape Gateway, enabling you to backup and archive data from Dell EMC NetWorker and Veeam Backup & Replication to AWS without changing your backup workflows. With this announcement, Tape Gateway supports Dell EMC NetWorker 19.5 and Veeam Backup & Replication […]
AWS – ACM Private CA Kubernetes cert-manager plugin is production ready
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) announces the release of Version 1.0 (v1.0) of the Private CA Kubernetes cert-manager plugin, an open source plugin for cert-manager that offers a secure certificate authority solution for Kubernetes containers. ACM Private CA is AWS’s managed and highly available private CA service, and cert-manager is a widely-adopted […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) announces support for Hyperledger Fabric v2.2
Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) now enables customers to launch Hyperledger Fabric 2.2 fully managed networks with advanced chaincode management and data sharing features. AMB is a fully managed service that allows customers to set up and manage scalable private blockchain networks with just a few clicks. AMB eliminates the overhead required to create the blockchain […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports OpenSearch version 1.1
You can now run OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards version 1.1 on Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service). The new version includes several improvements such as cross-cluster replication support for clusters running OpenSearch, anomaly detection for historical data, and improved alerting. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR on EKS releases Custom Image Validation Tool to simplify testing of your customized docker container images
Amazon EMR on EKS supports Custom Images – a functionality that helps customers customize the Docker container image used for running Apache Spark applications on EMR on EKS. Today, EMR on EKS open-sourced a Custom Image Validation Tool that allows customers to run an automated suite of tests to validate their customized docker container image. Read More for […]
Azure – General availability: Microsoft Defender for Cloud updates for December 2021
New enhancements and updates released for general availability (GA) in Microsoft Defender for Cloud in December 2021. Read More for the details.