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AWS – Introducing the reimagined AWS MSSP Competency
Introducing the updated AWS MSSP Competency (previously AWS Level 1 MSSP Competency) for partners with turn-key security solutions that transform how organizations approach cloud security. The update includes new categories to validate Partners’ security expertise in specific domains including Infrastructure Security, Workload Security, Application Security, Data Protection, Identity & Access Management, Incident Response, and Cyber […]

AWS – AWS Network Firewall launches support for active threat defense
AWS Network Firewall now offers active threat defense, a new security feature that helps you protect your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) workloads against threat activities observed across AWS global infrastructure using Amazon threat intelligence. AWS Network Firewall with active threat defense provides automated, intelligence-driven protection against dynamic, ongoing threat activities observed across AWS infrastructure. […]

AWS – Amazon CloudFront streamlines CDN setup with smart defaults and automation
Amazon CloudFront introduces a new console experience that simplifies the delivery of secure, high-performance applications to users on the internet. Setting up a content delivery network (CDN) traditionally required deep expertise in CDN configurations, domain management, and security best practices. The new CloudFront console experience streamlines this entire process with a unified approach to content […]

AWS – AWS Certificate Manager introduces public certificates you can use anywhere
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) announces exportable public certificates that you can use on any workload that requires a public TLS certificate, whether within AWS or outside. With this release, you can issue public certificates that you can export and access the certificate’s private key to securely terminate TLS traffic on any compute workload. This includes […]

AWS – IAM Access Analyzer now identifies who in your AWS organization can access your AWS resources
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer now identifies who within your AWS organization has access to your Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, or Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) resources. It uses automated reasoning to evaluate all identity policies, resource policies, service control policies (SCPs), and resource control policies (RCPs) to surface all IAM users […]

AWS – AWS IAM now enforces MFA for root users across all account types
Today AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) announced comprehensive multi-factor authentication (MFA) requirements for root users across all account types, with the expansion to member accounts. The new MFA enforcement marks a significant milestone in our ongoing commitment of secure by design principles, setting a high bar for our customers’ default security posture and building […]

GCP – Build and Deploy a Remote MCP Server to Google Cloud Run in Under 10 Minutes
Integrating context from tools and data sources into LLMs can be challenging, which impacts ease-of-use in the development of AI agents. To address this challenge, Anthropic introduced the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which standardizes how applications provide context to LLMs. Imagine you want to build an MCP server for your API to make it available […]

AWS – AWS Network Firewall now supports AWS Transit Gateway native integration
AWS Network Firewall now supports native integration with AWS Transit Gateway for simplified deployment and management of network security across your global AWS infrastructure. This capability is available in 5 AWS Regions, allowing customers to implement security controls more efficiently. AWS Transit Gateway interconnects your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and on-premises networks, while AWS […]

AWS – AWS Compute Optimizer now identifies idle EC2 Auto Scaling groups with GPU instances
AWS Compute Optimizer now detects idle EC2 Auto Scaling groups using G and P instance types, enabling you to identify additional savings opportunities in your AWS spend. As AI development accelerates, organizations are creating more Auto Scaling groups with G and P instance types for training and inference workloads. Once you enable the NVIDIA CloudWatch […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Innovation Release 9.3 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports community MySQL Innovation Release 9.3 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the latest Innovation Release on Amazon RDS for MySQL. You can deploy MySQL 9.3 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment which provides the benefits of a fully managed database, making it simpler […]