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AWS – Amazon Timestream can now be used for workloads subject to HIPAA, ISO, and PCI DSS
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Amazon Timestream can now be used for workloads that are subject to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and Payment Card Industry – Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SES now lets you assign a configuration set to an email identity
Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) now enables you to assign a configuration set to an email identity, such as a specific email domain or individual email address. This allows rules from the configuration set to be applied to all emails sent from that email identity. Configuration sets are a grouping of rules that enable […]
AWS – Amazon FSx is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions
Amazon FSx, a fully managed service that makes it easy to launch and run feature-rich and highly-performant file systems, is now available in the Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions. With this launch, Amazon FSx is now available in all standard AWS Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS CodePipeline now available in Europe South (Milan) region
Starting today, AWS CodePipeline is now available in the Europe South (Milan) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Discover, review, and remediate unintended access to Secrets Manager secrets using IAM Access Analyzer
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer now analyzes AWS Secrets Manager resource-based policies to help you discover secrets that can be accessed publicly or from other accounts or organizations. IAM Access Analyzer makes it easier to identify and remediate unintended public, cross-account, or cross-organization sharing of your Secrets Manager secrets. This helps you […]
AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Service extends encryption at rest and node-to-node encryption to existing domains
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports encryption of data at rest and node-to-node encryption on existing domains, enabling organizations hosting sensitive workloads to meet stringent security and compliance requirements. Read More for the details.
GCP – Spoiled for choice: Deploying to 3 serverless platforms
I made a webapp called Hot Maze and tried to deploy it to App Engine, to Cloud Functions, and to Cloud Run. This is what I learned in the process. What is Hot Maze Hot Maze is a web page that lets you share a photo or a document from your computer to your phone, […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub adds 1 new integration globally and adds 5 integrations to AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Security Hub is now integrated with Cloud Storage Security: Antivirus for Amazon S3. Cloud Storage Security uses the AWS Security Finding Format (ASFF) to send findings to Security Hub. Security Hub’s integrations with Forcepoint CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker), Forcepoint DLP (Data Loss Prevention), Forcepoint NGFW (Next-Generation Firewall), Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud Compute […]
GCP – How to build demand forecasting models with BigQuery ML
Retail businesses have a “goldilocks” problem when it comes to inventory: don’t stock too much, but don’t stock too little. With potentially millions of products, for a data science and engineering team to create multi-millions of forecasts is one thing, but to procure and manage the infrastructure to handle continuous model training and forecasting, this […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports tempdb on local instance store with R5d and M5d instance types
Starting today, you can launch Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server on Amazon EC2 R5d and Amazon EC2 M5d instance types with tempdb configured to use local instance storage. By placing tempdb data files and log files locally, you can achieve lower read and write latencies when compared to the standard EBS […]