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GCP – Cloud Armor: enhancing security at the edge with Adaptive Protection, expanded coverage scope, and new rules
Cloud Armor, Google Cloud’s DDoS defense service and web-application firewall (WAF) helps customers protect their websites and services from denial of service and web attacks every day using the same infrastructure, network, and technology that has protected Google’s own internet-facing properties from the largest DDoS attacks reported. To stay ahead of the evolving threat landscape, […]
GCP – BigQuery Admin reference guide: Jobs & reservation model
So far in our BigQuery Admin Reference Guide, we’ve discussed theBigQuery resource modeland talked through the different types of tables and routines. This week, we’re talking about execution and workload management resources within the hierarchy – jobs, commitments, reservations and assignments. As always, we’ll include links back to the documentation so you can walk through […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 now supports custom time windows for Scheduled Events
Amazon EC2 now provides customers the flexibility to specify weekly recurring time window(s) for Scheduled Events that reboot, stop or terminate EC2 instances. AWS schedules infrequent events, such as a reboot, stop, or termination, for EC2 instances when it detects irreparable failure of the underlying host or when it must perform tasks such as maintaining […]
AWS – New AWS Solutions Implementation: Simple File Manager for Amazon EFS
Today we are launching Simple File Manager for Amazon EFS into the AWS Solutions Implementations portfolio. Simple File Manager for Amazon EFS is a serverless solution that provides a user interface for managing data in your Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems. Deploying this solution allows you to seamlessly browse any EFS file […]
AWS – New datasets available on the Registry of Open Data from the National Library of Medicine, Digital Earth Africa, Amazon, and others
Forty-four new or updated datasets from the National Library of Medicine, Digital Earth Africa, Amazon, and others are available on the Registry of Open Data in the following categories. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Lex launches support for Indian English
We are delighted to announce that Amazon Lex now supports Indian English. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex provides deep learning powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text, […]
AWS – Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager launches new console experience
Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) now offers a new console experience that makes it easier for you to create, modify and manage your DLM policies. The new console allows you to create policies and modify existing policies in a more streamlined manner and provides you more information and easier access to additional resources. Read More […]
AWS – AWS App Mesh Constructs for AWS CDK are now generally available
The AWS App Mesh constructs module for AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is now generally available. The new AWS App Mesh service construct for AWS CDK simplifies provisioning of AWS App Mesh resources into your CDK infrastructure stacks. Strongly typed interfaces make it easy to select the appropriate configurations for your mesh, as well […]
AWS – AWS Private Certificate Authority introduces integration with Kubernetes
AWS Private Certificate Authority (CA) now supports an open source plugin for cert-manager that offers a more secure certificate authority solution for Kubernetes containers. cert-manager is a widely-adopted solution for TLS certificate management in Kubernetes. Customers who use cert-manager for application certificate lifecycle management can now use this solution to improve security over the default […]
Azure – General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—June 2021
June updates include dashboard enhancements, the IoT Plug and Play smartphone app including updated quickstarts, rule condition enhancements, a new responsive UI, and a new Learn module. Read More for the details.