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AWS – Amazon Lex launches support for AWS CloudFormation
Amazon Lex now supports AWS CloudFormation, allowing you to create bots and organize Amazon Lex resources using CloudFormation stack templates. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With CloudFormation support, you can easily model resources on Lex V2 APIs – namely Bot, BotVersion, BotAlias, and ResourcePolicy – to […]
GCP – How Pub/Sub eliminates boring meetings and makes your systems scale
So, you’ve said goodbye to the monolithic application and refactored it into services. You are shipping faster and the code is cleaner. But the complexity of communication between the services is causing performance issues. And every time a new team needs to integrate, it’s a whole lot of meetings. The time has come to consider […]
AWS – Amazon Route 53 updates API actions
Amazon Route 53 is adding domain specific API actions: DeleteDomain and ListPrices. Sorting and filtering functions are also being added to the API action, ListDomains. The DeleteDomain API action is a function previously only available in the AWS Console. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP reduces minimum file system throughput capacity to 128 MB/s
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP has now reduced the minimum file system throughput capacity from 512 MB/s to 128 MB/s, decreasing the minimum cost of an FSx for ONTAP file system by over 50%. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Network Firewall now supports AWS Managed Rules
AWS Network Firewall now supports AWS Managed Rules, which are groups of rules based on threat intelligence data, to enable you to stay up to date on the latest security threats without writing and maintaining your own rules. Read More for the details.
AWS – You can now enable data compression for capacity pool storage in Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports data compression for data stored within a file system’s capacity pool storage. Combined with FSx for ONTAP’s existing support for data deduplication and compaction, data compression enables you to reduce your storage costs for a wide spectrum of data sets — for example, you can reduce your costs […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Africa (Cape Town) regions.
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Africa (Cape Town) regions. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Storage: Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC) conditions with principal attributes now in public preview
Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC) is an authorization mechanism that defines access levels based on attributes associated with security principals, resources, requests or the environment. You can now use Azure AD custom security attributes for principals in role assignment conditions for Azure Storage, along with resource and request attributes. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Storage: Secure access to storage account from a virtual network/subnet in any region now in public preview
This preview enables secure access to your storage account by configuring virtual network rules in the storage firewall that allow access from subnets in any Azure region of your choice. Read More for the details.
AWS – EKS add-ons now supports EBS CSI driver
The Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver is now available in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) add-ons in preview, enabling you to use the Amazon EKS console, CLI, and API to install and manage the add-on. This release is in addition to existing support for the Amazon VPC CNI networking […]