Welcome to above the clouds
GCP – New whitepaper: Designing and deploying a data security strategy with Google Cloud
William Gibson said it best: “The future is already here—it’s just not evenly distributed.” The cloud has arrived. Data security in the cloud is too often a novel problem for our customers. Well-worn paths to security are lacking. We often see customers struggling to adapt their data security posture to this new reality. There is […]
AWS – Announcing date and time functions and timezone support in AWS IoT SiteWise
We are excited to announce that AWS IoT SiteWise now supports date and time functions, and global time zones for use in metric and transform computations in the AWS IoT SiteWise asset model. You can now use date and time expressions to retrieve the current timestamp of equipment data in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) or […]
AWS – Amazon SQS now supports 1-Minute CloudWatch Metrics in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) now supports Amazon CloudWatch 1-minute metrics in both AWS GovCloud (US) Regions Amazon SQS already supports Amazon CloudWatch 1-minute metrics in all commercial regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon MSK now supports the ability to change the size or family of your Apache Kafka brokers
You can now scale your Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) clusters on demand by changing the size or family of your brokers without reassigning Apache Kafka partitions. Changing the size or family of your brokers gives you the flexibility to adjust your MSK cluster’s compute capacity based on changes in your workloads, without […]
AWS – Amazon Detective enhances IP Address Analytics
Amazon Detective now provides enhanced IP address analytics enabling faster security investigations. With this new capability you can answer questions about a specific IP address such as “how long has this IP address been interacting with the resources in my accounts”, “which of my EC2 instances did this IP address communicate with?”, “What were the […]
AWS – New partner training on migration, cloud governance, and machine learning
AWS Training and Certification is excited to announce the availability of three new courses for AWS Partners. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports JSON syntax to help you read and write data from other systems more easily
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service, now supports JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) syntax to help you read and write data from other systems more easily. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon FSx now supports FIPS 140-2 validated endpoints
Amazon FSx, a fully managed service that makes it easy to launch and run feature-rich and highly-performant file systems, now offers Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 validated endpoints to help you protect sensitive information. FIPS 140-2 is a U.S. and Canadian government standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive […]
AWS – Announcing CDK Support for AWS Chalice
AWS Chalice now integrates with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). With CDK integration, you can now combine the familiar, decorator-based APIs of Chalice to write your application code with the entire CDK constructs to define your service infrastructure. This enables you to deploy your serverless application as a single, cohesive stack using the CDK. […]
AWS – Resource Groups Tagging API launches ResourceARNList parameter for the GetResources operation
The GetResources operation of the Resource Groups Tagging API helps you return all the tagged or previously tagged resources located in the specified region in an AWS account. The GetResources operation now supports the ResourceARNList parameter. This new parameter accepts a list of up to 100 Amazon Resource Names (ARNs), and returns a list of the specified […]