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AWS – AWS WAF adds support for Custom Responses
AWS WAF now supports configuring the HTTP status code and the response body returned to the user when a request is blocked. Until today, AWS WAF could only return HTTP status code 403 (forbidden) when the user request was blocked by WAF. With Custom Response, you can now configure AWS WAF to send out a […]
AWS – AWS WAF adds support for Request Header Insertion
AWS WAF now supports inserting HTTP headers to the user request when WAF allows the request to reach your application. You can use the Request Header Insertion feature to help validate that requests made to your application were evaluated by WAF and configure your application to only allow requests that contain the custom header values […]
AWS – AWS Global Accelerator launches a new Edge location in Indonesia
AWS Global Accelerator now supports traffic through the new AWS edge location in Jakarta, Indonesia. Using Global Accelerator, users in Indonesia can now see improved performance of up to 20% for internet traffic to the AWS Singapore Region and up to 60% for traffic to AWS Regions in North America and Europe. Global Accelerator is […]
AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports Event Subscriptions
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. As a document database, Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy to store, query, and index JSON data at scale. Read More for the details.
GCP – Google and the National Science Foundation expand access to cloud resources
As part of our commitment to ensuring more equitable access to computing power and training resources, Google Cloud will contribute research credits and training to projects funded through a new initiative by the National Science Foundation (NSF) called the computer and information science and engineering Minority-Serving Institutions Research Expansion (CISE-MSI) program. This program seeks to […]
GCP – Devices and zero trust
In a zero trust environment, every device has to earn trust in order to be granted access. When determining whether access should be granted, the security system relies on device metadata, such as what software is running or when the OS was last updated, and checks to see if the device meets that organization’s minimum […]
Azure – Wire Data 2.0 (preview) will be retired on 31 March 2022
Because Azure Monitor Virtual Machine insights and Service Map both provide network connection data sets in Logs, utilize the Dependency agent, and have connections with Azure Sentinel, we will be retiring Wire Data 2.0 (preview) on 31 March 2022. Please transition to using Azure Monitor Virtual Machine insights or Service Map by that date. Read More […]
AWS – Announcing AWS Step Functions’ integration with Amazon EMR on EKS
AWS Step Functions is now integrated with Amazon EMR on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), making it easier to integrate Apache Spark based jobs into your analytics pipeline. You can now build workflows including steps to manage EMR on EKS virtual clusters and submit jobs without writing code to manage the state of the […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Data Explorer external tables
Create an external table located in Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Store Gen1, or Azure Data Lake Store Gen2 to analyze and query your data. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Communication Services
Now you can use Azure Communication Services to add video, voice, SMS, chat, and telephony capabilities into almost any web, mobile, or desktop application. Read More for the details.