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Azure – General availability: Web Application Firewall (WAF) bot protection on Application Gateway
Try the bot protection rule set alongside your OWASP core rule set (CRS), now generally available for Azure Web Application Firewall running on Application Gateway. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Adds Support for USB YubiKey Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) Authentication on PCoIP Windows WorkSpaces
Amazon WorkSpaces introduces USB redirection support for YubiKey Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) on PCoIP Windows WorkSpaces with WorkSpaces Windows client app. The feature is intended for customers who need to perform YubiKey U2F authentication to access web-based services from their WorkSpaces. Read More for the details.
AWS – Agents can now set their next status while still on an active contact in Amazon Connect
Agents in Amazon Connect can now set their next status while still on a contact, enabling seamless transition from work to offline or lunch. This enables agents to indicate that they are about to go to lunch, and don’t want to be routed new contacts, while finishing up ongoing work. Once the agent has wrapped […]
GCP – Monitor models for training-serving skew with Vertex AI
This blog post focuses on how Vertex AI enables one of the core aspects of MLOps: monitoring models deployed in production for training-serving skew. Vertex AI, a managed platform that allows companies to accelerate the deployment and maintenance of artificial intelligence (AI) models. Here we will describe how Vertex AI makes it easy to: Turn […]
AWS – AWS IoT Core Credential Provider now supports security tokens that are valid up to 12 hours
You can now use AWS IoT Core Credential Provider to request temporary, limited-privilege security token that are valid up to 12 hours and use the token to sign and authenticate any AWS request. Until now, the AWS IoT Core Credential Provider issued security tokens that were valid up to 1 hour only. Now with tokens […]
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces now offers web access with WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP)
Organizations continue to need options that rapidly enable users to work from any location and any computer while remaining secure and productive. To streamline deployments of Amazon WorkSpaces using WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP) without having to install a native client application, your users can now access Amazon WorkSpaces from supported web browsers on Windows, macOS, or […]
AWS – AWS AppSync now supports custom authorization with AWS Lambda for GraphQL APIs
Today we’re releasing a flexible and simple way to implement custom authorization logic with AWS Lambda for AWS AppSync GraphQL API calls. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Time Zone File Auto Upgrade
Starting today Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle supports the auto upgrade of Oracle time zone files. The Oracle time zone file auto upgrade feature provides an automated way to upgrade the DST timezone file version in the database instance. Customers observing timezones with TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE data types in their databases […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower announces improvements to guardrail naming and descriptions
AWS Control Tower guardrail naming and descriptions have been revised to better reflect the guardrail policy intention. The revised names and descriptions will help users more intuitively understand how guardrails enhance control of their accounts. For example, names of detective guardrails were modified from “Disallow” to “Detect” since the detective guardrail itself does not enforce […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports Two New Parameter Changes For Full-Text Search
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports parameter changes for full-text search. Full-text search in SQL Server lets users and applications run full-text queries against character-based data in SQL Server tables. Read More for the details.