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AWS – AWS X-Ray now supports VPC endpoints
AWS X-Ray now supports VPC endpoints. With this feature, you can communicate with X-Ray service from your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without exposing that traffic to the public internet. VPC endpoints are powered by AWS PrivateLink, an AWS technology that enables private communication between your VPC and AWS services, like X-Ray, on the private AWS […]

AWS – Manage Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) service quotas through the Service Quotas console
Now, you can manage service quotas for Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, through the Service Quotas console. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS App2Container now supports deployment of containerized applications to AWS App Runner
AWS App2Container (A2C) now supports deployment of containerized Java and Springboot web applications to AWS App Runner. With this feature, users can now target App Runner as deployment runtime in addition to ECS and EKS that were previously supported. Using App2Container, developers can take a running Linux based web application, analyze, containerize, and deploy to […]

GCP – Anthos in depth: All the posts in our hybrid and multicloud development series
Every company is trying to get better business outcomes through software. We created Kubernetes to maximize productivity of our own developers, and open sourced it to help others achieve the same. To make Kubernetes more production ready, we created Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) as the best way to consume Kubernetes as a reliable, secure and […]

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.