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GCP – Best practices to protect your organization against ransomware threats
Ransomware, a form of malware that encrypts a user’s or organization’s most important files or data rendering them unreadable, isn’t a novel threat in the world of computer security. These destructive, financially-motivated attacks where cybercriminals demand payment to decrypt data and restore access have been studied and documented for many years. Today’s reality shows us […]

AWS – Amazon Lex now supports resource-based policies for bots and aliases
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AWS – Amazon EMR on EKS is now available in the South America (São Paulo) region
Starting today, Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS is now available in the South America (São Paulo) region. Read More for the details.

AWS – WkWebView now supported with Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript
The Amazon Chime SDK for Javascript now enables developers to support audio and video functionalities in a iOS WKWebView component. With support for WKWebView, developers can now use the Amazon Chime SDK for Javascript within a native iOS application’s WKWebView component to enable audio and video capabilities. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights now supports container monitoring
Now you can easily setup monitoring, alarms and dashboards for your applications deployed in Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Kubernetes on EC2 containers running on AWS with CloudWatch Application Insights. CloudWatch Application Insights is a capability that helps customers monitor and troubleshoot their enterprise applications running on AWS resources. […]

AWS – Amazon Lightsail is now available in the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region
Starting today, you can create Amazon Lightsail instances, databases, and more in the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS customers can now self opt-in to AWS Wavelength Zones
Starting today, customers can easily enable AWS Wavelength Zones themselves from the new “Settings” section of the EC2 Console or ModifyAvailabilityZoneGroup API . Once enabled, customers can create and manage resources in the Wavelength Zone using the same APIs and Management Console they use for Availability Zones in AWS Regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – EKS Add-Ons Now Supports CoreDNS and kube-proxy
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports using the Amazon EKS console, CLI, and API to install and manage CoreDNS and kube-proxy in addition to existing support for the Amazon VPC CNI networking plugin. This makes it easier to define consistent Kubernetes clusters and keep them up to date using Amazon EKS. Read More […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker now offers new flexibility in configuring the model building pipelines
Amazon SageMaker Pipelines, the first purpose built continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) service for machine learning (ML), now allows customers to specify custom dependencies between the steps of the model building pipeline. Previously, specifying the output of a step as the input to another was the only option for specifying the dependency and the […]
AWS – Customizations for AWS Control Tower v2.1 adds more scaling optimizations and improves compatibility with AWS CodeBuild
We recently updated Customizations for AWS Control Tower, a reference implementation that makes it easier to build your own guardrails and integrations with the AWS Control Tower service. Customizations for AWS Control Tower v2.1 is for new or existing AWS Control Tower customers that want to use the managed service, but have additional requirements that […]