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GCP – Best practices for dependency management
This article describes a set of best practices for managing dependencies of your application, including vulnerability monitoring, artifact verification, and steps to reduce your dependency footprint and make it reproducible. The specifics of each of these practices may vary depending on the specifics of your language ecosystem and the tooling you use, but general principles […]
AWS – Amazon Connect CTI Adapter for Salesforce adds out-of-the-box chat user interface support to Salesforce Experience Cloud
The Amazon Connect Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) Adapter for Salesforce now enables you to embed the Amazon Connect out-of-the-box chat widget within Salesforce Experience Cloud (formerly Community Cloud). This chat widget enables customers using Salesforce Experience Cloud to interact with Amazon Connect agents. For example, when a customer is requesting help from the IT support website […]
AWS – Amazon Interactive Video Service adds SDK for live broadcasting from iOS and Android devices
Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) now gives you the ability to send live video from your mobile applications to an Amazon IVS channel as an input for a live stream using the Amazon IVS mobile broadcast SDK for Android and iOS. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Network Firewall achieves PCI DSS Compliance
AWS Network Firewall is now a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant service. AWS Network Firewall is a managed firewall service that makes it easy to deploy essential network protections for all your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). The service automatically scales with network traffic volume to provide high-availability protections without the […]
AWS – Amazon VPC CNI plugin increases pods per node limits
The Amazon VPC Container Networking Interface (CNI) Plugin now supports running more pods per node on AWS Nitro based EC2 instance types. To achieve higher pod density, the VPC CNI plugin leverages a new VPC capability that enables IP address prefixes to be attached to EC2 instances. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS CloudTrail now supports logging of data events for Amazon EBS direct APIs
AWS CloudTrail now supports logging of data events for Amazon EBS direct APIs that customers can use to identify when their Amazon EBS snapshots are accessed using the ListSnapshotBlocks, ListChangedBlocks, GetSnapshotBlock, or PutSnapshotBlock APIs by users in their AWS account. These data events are delivered to an Amazon S3 bucket and Amazon CloudWatch Events, and […]
Azure – Azure Site Recovery update rollup 56 is now generally available – July 2021
The latest Azure Site Recovery update provides improvements, fixes, updated replication support, and download links for Site Recovery components. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Snowball now supports multicast streams and routing by providing instances with direct access to external networks
AWS Snowball now supports multicast streams, routing, load balancing, and other networking use cases by enabling instances on a Snowball device to have direct access to an external network. By providing instances with layer 2 network access without any intermediary translation or filtering, customers gain increased flexibility over the network configuration of their Snowball devices along with […]
AWS – Amazon Virtual Andon 2.2 – A digital notification system for manufacturers
The Amazon Virtual Andon solution provides a scalable digital Andon system to optimize factory floor processes, reduce issue resolution time, support the transition to predictive maintenance, and prevent issues. The solution provides a workflow to help users monitor manufacturing workstations for events, log events, and then route specific events to the correct engineer for resolution. […]
AWS – Announcing the General Availability of AWS Local Zones in Denver
Today we are announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Denver. Customers can now use the new Local Zone to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency to end-users or on-premises installations in the Denver metro area. Read More for the details.