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AWS – AWS Shield now provides global and per-account event summaries to all AWS customers
AWS Shield now global and per-account event summaries to all AWS customers. These summaries provide you an overview of all events detected by AWS Shield, such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and other volumetric anomalies, for each of your accounts and for all events detected and mitigated on AWS. Read More for the […]
AWS – AWS Fargate Spot for Amazon ECS is now supported in AWS CloudFormation
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on AWS Fargate capacity providers is now supported in AWS CloudFormation, which makes it easier to manage and run Amazon ECS tasks across Fargate and Fargate Spot. You can now use CloudFormation to automate the management of Fargate capacity providers, associate them with ECS clusters, and specify capacity provider […]
AWS – Amazon SNS now supports selecting the origination number when sending SMS messages
When using Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to send text messages (SMS) to your customers, you now have the option of selecting the origination number to use. Origination numbers are the phone numbers that Amazon SNS will use to send your SMS message, such as short codes and long codes. Read More for the […]
AWS – AWS Copilot CLI launches v0.5 to let users deploy scheduled jobs and more
Today, the AWS Copilot CLI for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) launched version 0.5.0. Starting with this release, you can deploy applications or jobs that need to run only on a particular schedule. AWS Copilot has built in timeouts and retries to provide more flexibility for how your scheduled jobs run. AWS Copilot will […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL Supports Minor Version 8.0.21
Amazon RDS for MySQL has been updated to support release 8.0.21 of the MySQL database. This release includes a number of bug fixes as well as functionality improvements. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing the AWS Load Balancer Controller
The ALB Ingress Controller is now the AWS Load Balancer Controller, and includes support for both Application Load Balancers and Network Load Balancers. The new controller enables you to simplify operations and save costs by sharing an Application Load Balancer across multiple applications in your Kubernetes cluster, as well as using a Network Load Balancer to […]
AWS – Amazon EKS is now FedRAMP-Moderate compliant
Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) clusters running in standard AWS regions are now compliant with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Moderate baseline. Read More for the details.
GCP – Preparing for peak holiday shopping in 2020: War rooms go virtual
As retail gets ready for an unprecedented holiday 2020, it’s not just shoppers who are looking to go digital-first. Retail war rooms – traditionally a single large room where core IT and business teams gather together to ensure systems keep running, websites don’t crash and items stay in stock – are also looking different due […]
GCP – MLB uses Google Cloud Smart Analytics platform to scale data insights
Though 2020 has been a year like no other, many sports fans can take comfort in the fact that one of America’s fall traditions has continued: the World Series, baseball’s annual championship consumed by millions. This year, the Los Angeles Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays have split the first two games, setting us up for […]
GCP – Improving security and governance in PostgreSQL with Cloud SQL
Ensuring databases are securely managed is a crucial part of every organization’s critical operations. When those organizations rely on a managed service like Cloud SQL, a key benefit is consistency of management, including security policies that extend beyond a single service. Cloud SQL has continued to enhance its security capabilities. We’ve introduced VPC Service Controls […]