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GCP – New in Cloud Functions: languages, availability, portability, and more
Google Cloud Functions is a scalable pay-as-you-go Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) platform that runs your code with zero server management. With its simple and easy-to-use developer experience, we’re excited to extend Cloud Functions so that you can now use it to build end-to-end solutions for several key use cases. Click to enlarge Namely, functions have emerged as […]
GCP – A cloud workforce is ready for the unexpected
Just a few short months ago, when the impact of Covid-19 began to be felt globally, IT teams impressively rose to the challenge to support their businesses and their people in new ways, and in record time. But as companies look toward how they plan to sustain their workforce in the months ahead, there are […]
AWS – AWS Lake Formation now supports Active Directory and SAML providers for Amazon Athena
AWS Lake Formation now supports Active Directory and Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) identity providers such as OKTA and Auth0 for Amazon Athena. You can now easily manage data access for Amazon Athena users with fine grained privileges using existing identity management tools. Read More for the details.
AWS – Simplify data management in Amazon Personalize with new APIs
Amazon Personalize enables you to personalize your website, app, ads, emails, and more, using the same machine learning technology as used by Amazon.com, without requiring any prior machine learning experience. Using Amazon Personalize, you can generate personalized recommendations for your users through a simple API interface. Amazon Personalize now makes it easier to manage your […]
AWS – AWS Config adds 15 new sample conformance pack templates and introduces simplified setup experience for conformance packs
AWS Config now offers 15 additional sample conformance pack templates that can help you verify your cloud infrastructure’s compliance with one or more frameworks for configuration best practices. With conformance packs, you can package a collection of AWS Config rules and remediation actions that can be deployed together as a single entity across an entire […]
AWS – Amazon MSK launches new education classes and labs
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) launches a new master class and AWS Labs to get you started using the service and hone your skills with best practices. The new Amazon MSK Master Class, created by Stephane Maarek, AWS Hero, gives you six hours of hands-on learning in the most comprehensive content available for […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub achieves FedRAMP Moderate authorization
AWS Security Hub is now authorized as FedRAMP Moderate in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon). The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a US government-wide program that delivers a standard approach to the security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Object Ownership is available to enable bucket owners to automatically assume ownership of objects uploaded to their buckets
Amazon S3 Object Ownership is a new S3 feature that enables bucket owners to automatically assume ownership of objects that are uploaded to their buckets by other AWS Accounts. This helps you to standardize ownership of new objects in your bucket, and to share and manage access to these objects at scale via resource-based policies […]
AWS – Amazon EKS Adds Fargate Support in Northern California, Canada, São Paulo, London, Paris, Stockholm, Bahrain, Mumbai, Seoul, and Hong Kong AWS Regions
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports running containers on AWS Fargate in ten additional AWS regions: US West (Northern California), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports two subscription filters per log group
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports two subscription filters per log group, enabling you to deliver a real-time feed of log events from CloudWatch Logs to an Amazon Kinesis Data Stream, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, or AWS Lambda for custom processing, analysis, or delivery to other systems. Read More for the details.