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AWS – AWS Security Hub integrates with AWS Organizations for simplified security posture management
AWS Security Hub is now integrated with AWS Organizations to simplify security posture management across all of your existing and future AWS accounts in an organization. With this launch, new and existing Security Hub customers can delegate any account in their organization as the Security Hub administrator and centrally view security findings from up to […]
Azure – Azure portal November 2020 update
Updates include moving resources from a resource group to another region and a filter pills update. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Copilot CLI is now Generally Available
AWS Copilot CLI for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is now generally available with v1.0.0. The AWS Copilot CLI makes it easy to build, release, and operate production-ready containerized applications on Amazon ECS with the Fargate launch type. AWS Copilot incorporates AWS’s best practices, from infrastructure-as-code to continuous delivery, and makes them available to […]
AWS – You now can restore Amazon DynamoDB tables even faster when recovering from data loss or corruption
You now can restore Amazon DynamoDB tables even faster when recovering from data loss or corruption. The increased efficiency of restores and their ability to better accommodate workloads with imbalanced write patterns reduce table restore times across base tables of all sizes and data distributions. To accelerate the speed of restores for tables with secondary […]
Azure – Azure Boards – Delivery Plans 2.0 is now in preview
With this release, we’re announcing the public preview release of Delivery Plans 2.0 and other improvements. Read More for the details.
Azure – The Azure Cloud Shell image has been updated
Azure Cloud Shell has been updated to use a new base image. This will provide updates to some of the most common tools and commands. Read More for the details.
GCP – Education 2021: Four areas in focus
Improving education in the midst of a pandemic is the challenge of our time. To help with this, many institutions are turning to cloud tools to rapidly innovate on behalf of students. Some of the education leaders who have taken on this work over the past year will join us to share their insights and […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoint policies
AWS Systems Manager now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoint policies, which allow you to configure access to the Systems Manager API. When you create Amazon VPC endpoints for Systems Manager, you can attach AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) resource policies that restrict user access to Systems Manager API operations, when these […]
GCP – What’s new in BigQuery ML: non-linear model types and model export
We launched BigQuery ML, an integrated part of Google Cloud’s BigQuery data warehouse, in 2018 as a SQL interface for training and using linear models. Many customers with a large amount of data in BigQuery started using BigQuery ML to remove the need for data ETL, since it brought ML directly to their stored data. […]
AWS – Amazon MSK now offers consumer lag metrics and select topic-level metrics for free
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) now offers consumer lag metrics for new Amazon MSK clusters by default, making it easier for you to track whether your applications are consuming the latest data available in your Apache Kafka cluster. Consumer lag metrics quantify the difference between the latest data written to Apache Kafka topics […]