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AWS – Prepare data from Amazon Redshift and other JDBC-supported databases/data warehouses in AWS Glue DataBrew through native connectors
You can now clean and transform data with an interactive, point-and-click visual interface from Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle Database, and PostgreSQL through native JDBC connectors in AWS Glue DataBrew. In just a few clicks, you can configure these JDBC connections from the AWS Management Console to directly explore and experiment with […]
GCP – New whitepaper: Scaling certificate management with Certificate Authority Service
As Google Cloud’s Certificate Authority Service (CAS) approaches general availability, we want to help customers understand the service better. Customers have asked us how CAS fits into our larger security story and how CAS works for various use cases; today we are releasing a white paper about CAS to answer those questions and more. “Scaling […]
AWS – Announcing support for IAM Condition Keys and CMK for custom models for Amazon Comprehend
Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to analyze text documents and identify insights such as sentiment, entities, and topics in text. Today, we are announcing support for two security focused features: support for IAM condition keys and support for encrypting custom models with customer managed KMS keys. With […]
AWS – AWS WAF now supports Labels to improve rule customization and reporting
AWS WAF now lets you generate labels and customize your WAF rules based on those labels. With this feature, you can configure WAF to add descriptive labels to web requests when a WAF rule matches the request, regardless of the action associated with the rule. You can also check for the presence of those labels […]
AWS – AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized deployment of the new AWS WAF Bot Control across your organization
AWS Firewall Manager now enables security administrators to deploy the recently launched AWS WAF Bot Control across accounts in their organization, from a central administrator account. AWS WAF Bot Control is a new managed rule group that gives you visibility and control over common and pervasive bot traffic to your applications. You can use Bot […]
AWS – Amazon EKS is now FedRAMP-High Compliant
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters running in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions are now compliant with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High baseline. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Patches 1.9.1 / 2.7.1 / 3.4.1 / 4.0.1 now available
Patches 1.9.1 / 2.7.1 / 3.4.1 / 4.0.1 now available for customers using Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. For detailed release notes visit our version documentation. You can apply the new patch version in the AWS Management Console, via the AWS CLI, or via the RDS API. For detailed instructions, please see our technical documentation. Read More […]
Azure – Continued region expansion: Azure Data Factory just became generally available in two more regions
Azure Data Factory is now available in two new regions: Norway East and UAE North Read More for the details.
GCP – Troubleshoot BigQuery performance with these dashboards
BigQuery is Google’s flagship data analytics offering, enabling companies of all sizes to execute analytical workloads. To get the most out of BigQuery, it’s important to understand and monitor your workloads to keep your applications running reliably. Luckily, with Google’s INFORMATION_SCHEMA views, monitoring your organization’s use at scale has never been easier. Today, we’ll walk […]
AWS – AWS Budgets announces CloudFormation support for budget actions
You can now configure budgets actions to enforce budget limits for your AWS Budgets resources in your AWS CloudFormation templates, stacks, and StackSets. With budget actions, you can define the action you want to take in your account when a budget exceeds the threshold you defined (actual or forecasted amounts). This level of control will […]