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AWS – New IAM condition keys for Amazon S3 limit requests to buckets owned by specific AWS accounts, and to specific TLS versions
The s3:ResourceAccount and s3:TLSVersion IAM condition keys help you write simple policies that restrict access to your buckets based on the AWS Account ID of the bucket owner, or by the TLS Version used by the client. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS CodeBuild is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region
AWS CodeBuild is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. With CodeBuild, you don’t need to provision, manage, and scale your own build servers. CodeBuild scales continuously and processes multiple […]
AWS – Amazon Macie now available in AWS Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions
Amazon Macie is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions. You can now discover sensitive data stored in these regions to help protect your AWS workloads and data in Amazon S3. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Transcribe Medical now supports both streaming and batch transcription of multi-channel audio
Amazon Transcribe Medical is a HIPAA-eligible automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech-to-text capabilities to their healthcare and life science applications. Starting today, you can use the new Channel Identification feature to transcribe the speech from both live audio streams or static audio files that contain multiple audio […]
AWS – EC2 Hibernation feature is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
The EC2 Hibernation feature is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Hibernation gives you the ability to launch EC2 instances, set them up as desired, hibernate them, and then quickly bring them back to life when you need them. Applications pick up exactly where they left off instead of rebuilding their memory footprint. […]
GCP – Unlocking the mystery of stronger security key management
One of the “classic” data security mistakes involving encryption is encrypting the data and failing to secure the encryption key. To make matters worse, a sadly common issue is leaving the key “close” to data, such as in the same database or on the same system as the encrypted files. Such practices reportedly were a […]
AWS – AWS Load Balancer Controller version 2.1 now available with support for additional ELB configurations
The AWS Load Balancer Controller provides a Kubernetes native way to configure and manage Elastic Load Balancers that route traffic to applications running in Kubernetes clusters. Elastic Load Balancing offers multiple load balancers that all feature the high availability, automatic scaling, and robust security necessary to help make your applications fault tolerant. Read More for […]
AWS – Amazon AppFlow now provides data integration with Upsolver
Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed data integration service that enables customers to securely transfer data between AWS services and cloud applications, added Upsolver as a destination. You can now use Amazon AppFlow to configure data flows with Upsolver as the destination. Upsolver is a data lake ETL platform that stores data on the cloud, applies […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Blockchain now supports Ethereum (Preview)
Amazon Managed Blockchain now supports Ethereum in preview. Ethereum is a popular decentralized blockchain platform that establishes a peer-to-peer network allowing participants to transact without a trusted central authority. AWS customers can easily provision Ethereum nodes in minutes, and connect to the public Ethereum main network and test networks such as Rinkeby and Ropsten. With […]
AWS – Apache Kafka client resiliency testing made easier with an Amazon MSK reboot broker API
You can now reboot individual brokers within your Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) cluster by using the Reboot Broker API. The Reboot Broker API enables you to test the resiliency of your data producers and consumers by simulating MSK service maintenance such as automated patching or the effect a version upgrade has […]