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Azure – General availability: Changes coming to Azure Pipelines free grants
With this update, we are including temporary changes that will impact the process to acquire Azure Pipelines free grants. New users will have to send an email and provide additional information to get free CI/CD. Read More for the details.
GCP – How sweet it is: Using Cloud AI to whip up new treats with Mars Maltesers
Google Cloud AI is baked into our work with customers all over the world. We’ve partnered with organizations to use AI to make new predictions, automate business processes, forecast flooding and even combat climate change and chronic diseases. And sometimes, we even get to help our customers use AI to invent new things—tasty new things. […]
AWS – AWS Config adds pagination support for advanced queries that contain aggregate functions
AWS Config advanced queries feature now supports pagination for queries that contain aggregate functions, such as COUNT and SUM. For example, getting the total number of resources in each AWS account requires the COUNT aggregate function. You can now use advanced queries to get complete results for your aggregate queries through pagination, which were previously […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
AWS Security Hub is now available in the new AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. You can now centrally view and manage the security posture of your AWS accounts in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS WAF adds support for Custom Responses
AWS WAF now supports configuring the HTTP status code and the response body returned to the user when a request is blocked. Until today, AWS WAF could only return HTTP status code 403 (forbidden) when the user request was blocked by WAF. With Custom Response, you can now configure AWS WAF to send out a […]
AWS – AWS WAF adds support for Request Header Insertion
AWS WAF now supports inserting HTTP headers to the user request when WAF allows the request to reach your application. You can use the Request Header Insertion feature to help validate that requests made to your application were evaluated by WAF and configure your application to only allow requests that contain the custom header values […]
AWS – AWS Global Accelerator launches a new Edge location in Indonesia
AWS Global Accelerator now supports traffic through the new AWS edge location in Jakarta, Indonesia. Using Global Accelerator, users in Indonesia can now see improved performance of up to 20% for internet traffic to the AWS Singapore Region and up to 60% for traffic to AWS Regions in North America and Europe. Global Accelerator is […]
AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports Event Subscriptions
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. As a document database, Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy to store, query, and index JSON data at scale. Read More for the details.
GCP – Google and the National Science Foundation expand access to cloud resources
As part of our commitment to ensuring more equitable access to computing power and training resources, Google Cloud will contribute research credits and training to projects funded through a new initiative by the National Science Foundation (NSF) called the computer and information science and engineering Minority-Serving Institutions Research Expansion (CISE-MSI) program. This program seeks to […]
GCP – Devices and zero trust
In a zero trust environment, every device has to earn trust in order to be granted access. When determining whether access should be granted, the security system relies on device metadata, such as what software is running or when the OS was last updated, and checks to see if the device meets that organization’s minimum […]