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AWS – AWS Secrets Manager has been OSPAR assessed and approved
AWS Secrets Manager has been assessed for Outsourced Service Provider Audit Report (OSPAR). This assessment demonstrates that AWS Secrets Manager has a system of controls in place that meet the Association of Banks in Singapore’s (ABS) Guidelines on Control Objectives and Procedures for Outsourced Service Providers. Secrets Manager’s alignment with the ABS guidelines demonstrates to customers […]
GCP – gVisor: Protecting GKE and serverless users in the real world
Security is a top priority for Google Cloud, and we protect our customers through how we design our infrastructure, our services, and how we work. Googlers created some of the fundamental components of containers, like cgroups, and we were an early adopter of containers for our internal systems. We realized we needed a way to […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) on SQL Server 2016
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) on SQL Server 2016 (13.0058220.21.v1 and above), giving you the ability to host the report server web portal on the same Amazon RDS DB instance as your SQL Server database. There is no additional cost to install SSRS directly on your Amazon RDS […]
AWS – Amazon Comprehend now helps you mask personally identifiable information from text documents
You can now identify and mask personally identifiable information (PII) from text documents using Amazon Comprehend. Amazon Comprehend uses machine learning to detect PII information that can be used to identify any individual such as social security numbers, credit card numbers, and email addresses. You can use Amazon Comprehend’s PII API synchronously and asynchronously to […]
Azure – Azure Blob access time tracking and access time-based lifecycle management preview
The preview is available in France Central, Canada East, and Canada Central regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports Native Backup/Restore on DB Instances with Read Replicas
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports restoring SQL Server native backups onto DB instances that have read replicas configured. Previously, the read replica would need to be removed before restoring the native backup file onto your Amazon RDS for SQL Server DB instance. SQL Server backup files stored in your Amazon S3 bucket can […]
AWS – Amazon Transcribe announces Channel Identification support for streaming audio
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capability to your applications. Amazon Transcribe now expands support for Channel Identification to streaming audio transcription. With Channel Identification, you can process live audio from multiple channels, and produce a single transcript of the conversation with channel […]
AWS – Audit Logs launch
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers a detailed audit log of all Elasticsearch requests. Audit Logs allows customers to record a trail of all user actions, helping meet compliance regulations, improving the overall security posture and providing evidence for security investigations. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing Aurora Parallel Query region expansion and MySQL 5.7 compatibility
Amazon Aurora Parallel Query is now available with MySQL 5.7 compatibility. Parallel Query provides faster analytical queries over your transactional data, speeding up your queries by up to 2 orders of magnitude, while maintaining high throughput for your core transactional workload. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Blob storage lifecycle management now supports append blobs
In addition to supporting block blobs, Azure Blob storage lifecycle management now offers a rich, rule-based policy to manage the retention of your append blobs. Read More for the details.