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GCP – New research reveals who’s targeted by email attacks
Every day, we stop more than 100 million harmful emails from reaching Gmail users. Last year, during the peak of the pandemic crisis we saw 18 million daily malware and phishing emails related to COVID-19. This is in addition to more than 240 million COVID-related daily spam messages. Our ML models evolve to understand and […]
AWS – Application Load Balancer now supports Application Cookie Stickiness
Application Load Balancer (ALB) now supports Application-based cookie stickiness. This new feature helps customers ensure that clients connect to the same load balancer target for the duration of their session using application cookies. This enables customers to achieve a consistent client-server experience with greater controls such as the flexibility to set custom cookie names and […]
AWS – You now can use PartiQL with DynamoDB local to query, insert, update, and delete table data in Amazon DynamoDB
DynamoDB local now supports PartiQL (a SQL-compatible query language) so that you can query, insert, update, and delete DynamoDB table data. PartiQL is supported for all DynamoDB data-plane operations, and it helps improve the productivity of developers as they use this familiar, structured query language to perform operations. Developers can use PartiQL to develop applications, […]
AWS – Amazon ECS Service Discovery Now Available in Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan)
Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) launches integrated service discovery in the Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) regions. Read More for the details.
GCP – Security keys and zero trust
A security key is a physical device that works alongside your username and password to verify your identity to a site or app. They provide stronger login protection than an authenticator app or SMS codes, and the same device can be used for many services, so you don’t need to carry around a necklace of […]
AWS – AWS Cloud Map now supports resource tagging in AWS Console
You can now tag your AWS Cloud Map namespaces and services through AWS Console. AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. Using AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon ECS tasks, Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon S3 buckets, or any other cloud resource. Your application can […]
AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Digital Banking Engagement Platform
Digital Banking Engagement Platform (DBEP) is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Sopra Steria, an AWS Financial Services Competency Partner, and its subsidiary Sopra Banking Software. DBEP offers data-driven financial services to help institutions adopt Open Banking capabilities and enhance customer engagement. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate […]
AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – AI-Powered Inventory Management
AI-Powered Inventory Management is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Intellify, an AWS Machine Learning Competency Partner. AI-Powered Inventory Management helps improve inventory health by automating inventory forecasting to take the time and guesswork out of inventory management. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that […]
Azure – General availability: Soft delete for Azure file shares is now on by default for new storage accounts
Soft delete, which protects Azure file shares from accidental deletion, is now on by default for new storage accounts created after January 31st. Read More for the details.
GCP – Improved troubleshooting with Cloud Spanner introspection capabilities
Excellent developer experience is one of the most important focus areas for Cloud Spanner, Google’s fully managed horizontally scalable relational database service. Whether you are a database specialist or a developer, it is important to have tools that help you understand the performance of your database, detect if something goes wrong, and fix the problems. […]