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AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise launches support for VPC private links
AWS IoT SiteWise now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints via AWS PrivateLink for data plane APIs (PUT and GET APIs). You can securely send and receive data from within your VPC, without crossing the public internet and without using public IPs. You can do so by creating a VPC endpoint for the AWS […]
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache for Redis Global Datastore now available in 6 additional regions
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis Global Datastore, which provides fully managed, fast, reliable and secure cross-region replication, is now available in an additional 6 regions. With expanded region support, Global Datastore is now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), South America (Sao Paulo), Europe (Paris), Canada Central (Montreal), and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Read More for […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaPackage expands Monitoring and Deployment Automation capabilities
AWS Elemental MediaPackage now offers you the ability to publish both live ingress and egress logs as CloudWatch Logs. This feature allows you to easily build custom monitoring dashboards with CloudWatch Logs Insights or third-party data processing and monitoring tools. Analyzing these logs and correlating them with encoders or content distribution network (CDN) logs can […]
AWS – Now use AWS Systems Manager to view vulnerability identifiers for missing patches on your Linux instances
AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager now includes common vulnerability identifiers (CVE ID) in the description of missing patches identified in your fleet, across multiple Linux platforms. CVE IDs help you identify security notices applicable to vulnerabilities within your fleet and recommended patches. You can use Amazon Inspector to conduct a detailed scan for CVE in […]
AWS – AWS Auto Scaling is now generally available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) and AWS Europe (Milan) regions
AWS Auto Scaling with scaling plans and predictive scaling (for Amazon EC2) is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) and AWS Europe (Milan) regions. AWS Auto Scaling monitors your applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. With a simple, powerful user interface, you can build […]
GCP – Preparing Google Cloud deployments for Docker Hub pull request limits
Docker Hub is a popular registry for hosting public container images. Earlier this summer, Docker announced it will begin rate-limiting the number of pull requests to the service by “Free Plan” users. For pull requests by anonymous users this limit is now 100 pull requests per 6 hours; authenticated users have a limit of 200 […]
GCP – What you can learn in our Q4 2020 Google Cloud Security Talks
2020 has brought with it some tremendous innovations in the area of cloud security. As cloud deployments and technologies have become an even more central part of organizations’ security program, we hope you’ll join us for the latest installment of our Google Cloud Security Talks, a live online event on November 18th, where we’ll help […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks now support custom images
Amazon SageMaker Studio is the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML). With a single click, data scientists and developers can quickly spin up SageMaker Studio Notebooks to explore datasets and build models. Starting today, you can launch SageMaker Studio Notebooks with your own images. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Aurora for PostgreSQL now supports Read Replicas for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions to simplify database migrations
You can now create Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL read replicas for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL instances in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This helps minimize downtime when migrating live workloads from Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to Amazon Aurora for PostgreSQL, keeping instances in sync until you’re ready to move your applications and users to Amazon Aurora for […]
Azure – Microsoft to establish its first datacenter region in Taiwan
The new region is anticipated to include Microsoft Azure, with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform to follow. Read More for the details.