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AWS – Amazon Keyspaces is now in scope for AWS SOC Reports to help you run highly regulated Apache Cassandra workloads more easily
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, is now in scope for AWS System and Organization Controls (SOC) Reports to help you run highly regulated Cassandra workloads more easily. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EKS pods running on AWS Fargate now support custom security groups
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now allows you to specify custom Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) security groups for pods running on AWS Fargate, enabling fine grained control over incoming and outgoing network traffic. Read More for the details.

GCP – Zero-trust managed security for services with Traffic Director
We created Traffic Director to bring to you a fully managed service mesh product that includes load balancing, traffic management and service discovery. And now, we’re happy to announce the availability of a fully-managed zero-trust security solution using Traffic Director with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Certificate Authority (CA) Service. When platform administrators and security […]

AWS – Amazon Keyspaces now supports customer managed customer master keys (CMKs) for encryption of data at rest to help you meet your compliance and regulatory requirements
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service, now supports customer managed customer master keys (CMKs) for encryption of data at rest to help you meet your compliance and regulatory requirements. Read More for the details.

GCP – What is Cloud Spanner?
Databases are part of virtually every application you run in your organization and great apps need great databases. This post is focused on one such great database—Cloud Spanner. Cloud Spanner is the only enterprise-grade, globally-distributed, and strongly-consistent database service built for the cloud, specifically to combine the benefits of relational database structure with non-relational horizontal […]

AWS – Amazon SNS now supports SMS Sandbox and displays available origination IDs in your account
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is a fully-managed messaging service that supports application-to-person (A2P) workloads, including mobile text messaging (SMS). Now, when you start using Amazon SNS to send SMS, your SMS workloads start in an isolated testing environment, called the SMS sandbox. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced are available in Asia Pacific (Osaka)
Starting today, AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced are available in Asia Pacific (Osaka). Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Location Service is now generally available
Today, AWS announces Amazon Location Service, a fully managed service that helps developers easily and securely add maps, points of interest, geocoding, routing, tracking, and geofencing to their applications without compromising on data security, user privacy, or cost. With Amazon Location Service, you retain control of your location data, protecting your privacy and reducing enterprise […]

AWS – Amazon API Gateway now supports synchronous invocations of Express Workflows using REST APIs
Synchronous Express Workflows can now be triggered with Amazon API Gateway’s REST APIs, allowing you to build interactive applications and orchestrate high-volume, short-duration microservices. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Polly Launches a new Canadian French Neural Text-to-Speech voice
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Gabrielle, Amazon Polly’s first Canadian French Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voice. Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Customers can now enjoy a selection of two female Canadian French voices: Chantal, a Standard TTS voice and the just launched Gabrielle. Read More […]