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GCP – New features to better secure your Google App Engine apps
Since its launch in 2008, Google App Engine has anchored on ease-of-use for app developers, allowing them to focus on writing code without having to manage underlying infrastructure. Over the years, we have added a variety of features to help you better secure your apps, including ingress controls, App Engine Firewalls, and support forIdentity-Aware Proxy. […]
GCP – How Renault solved scaling and cost challenges on its Industrial Data platform using BigQuery and Dataflow
Following the first significant bricks of data management implemented in our plants to serve initial use cases such as traceability and operational efficiency improvements, we confirmed we got the right solution to collect industrial data from our machines and operations at scale. We started to deploy that solution and we therefore needed a state-of-the-art data […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 21.08
This quality release includes bug fixes and security updates of the Azure Sphere OS. Read More for the details.
AWS – The new Amazon DynamoDB console is now your default experience to help you manage data and resources more easily
The new Amazon DynamoDB console is now your default experience to help you manage data and resources more easily through simpler navigation and by providing you richer contextual information. Read More for the details.
AWS – IPv6 endpoints are now available for the Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service, Amazon Time Sync Service, and Amazon VPC DNS Server
The Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service, Amazon Time Sync Service, and Amazon VPC DNS server can now be accessed over IPv6 endpoints by instances built on the Nitro System. These local instance services have IPv6 addresses that can be accessed from your Amazon EC2 instances. These IPv6 endpoints use Unique Local Addresses (ULA); IPv6 for […]
AWS – IAM Access Analyzer helps you generate fine-grained policies that specify the required actions for more than 50 services
IAM Access Analyzer helps you achieve least privilege by generating fine-grained policies that specify the required actions for more than 50 services. In April 2021, IAM Access Analyzer added policy generation to help you create IAM policies based on your AWS CloudTrail activity. Now, we are extending policy generation to identify actions used for more […]
AWS – AWS DataSync enhances task filtering and queuing
When you create an AWS DataSync task to transfer your data to and from AWS Storage, you can now specify include filters as well as exclude filters, providing you with even greater control over how your data is transferred. With this enhancement, you can now schedule tasks that utilize both exclude and include filters to transfer […]
GCP – A unified and proven Zero Trust system with BeyondCorp and BeyondProd
One of the most used buzzwords in cybersecurity today is undoubtedly “Zero Trust.” It’s been used to describe a wide range of approaches and products, leading to a fair bit of confusion about the term itself and to what it actually means. Some attempts to explain or simplify zero trust assert that “zero trust means […]
AWS – Amazon MSK adds metrics for increased visibility of capacity
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now offers greater insight into the usage of Amazon MSK resources through 19 new metrics published to Amazon CloudWatch. These metrics offer customers additional visibility into resource utilization across CPU, storage, and the network, enabling customers to maximize the performance and uptime of their Apache Kafka applications interacting […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports Boolean DB Parameter Expressions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports Boolean DB parameter expressions in PostgreSQL parameter groups, which enables database administrators to optimize more database configurations with fewer parameter groups. Read More for the details.