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AWS – Support for KMS encryption on S3 buckets used by AWS Config
AWS Config now supports the ability to use an AWS Key Management Service (KMS) key or alias Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that you provide, to encrypt the data delivered to your Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket. By default, AWS Config delivers configuration history and snapshot files to your S3 bucket and encrypts the data […]

AWS – Now create Amazon SageMaker Studio presigned URL with custom expiration time
Amazon SageMaker Studio is the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML). SageMaker Studio provides a single, web-based visual interface where you can perform all ML development steps required to prepare, build, train and tune, deploy and manage models. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS Publishes New Events for Multi-AZ Deployments
Amazon RDS adds new events reporting the cause of an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ automated database failover so that you can detect and respond to your outage faster. You can view these failover reasons in the event log. Read More for the details.

GCP – Architect your data lake on Google Cloud with Data Fusion and Composer
With an increasing number of organisations migrating their data platforms to the cloud, there is also a demand for cloud technologies that allow utilising the existing skill sets in the organisation while also ensuring successful migration. ETL developers often form a sizable part of data teams in many organisations. These developers are well versed in […]

Azure – Email one-time passcode authentication on by default starting October 2021
Email one-time passcode will be on by default and redemption using unmanaged Azure Active Directory accounts will no longer be allowed starting October 31, 2021 and not March 31, 2021. Read More for the details.

AWS – Assign a Delegated Administrator to manage AWS CloudFormation StackSets across your AWS Organization
AWS CloudFormation StackSets extends the functionality of stacks by enabling you to create, update, or delete stacks across multiple accounts and regions with a single operation. Last year, we introduced StackSets integration with AWS Organizations, allowing you to define a central template that can be applied across AWS accounts, reducing the need for you to […]

Azure – Web Application Firewall Integration with Azure Front Door Standard and Premium SKU
Azure Front Door Premium SKU with built-in Web Application Firewall, protects your public and private web applications, combines protection with application acceleration and content caching. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Web Application Firewall for Azure Front Door managed ruleset refresh
Use Microsoft_DefaultRuleSet_1.1 to protect your web applications from OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports canary events with Amazon EventBridge
CloudWatch Synthetics now supports monitoring canary events with Amazon EventBridge. This allows you to send notifications to teams, capture canary event information, and take corrective action in response to a canary state change or the completion of a canary run. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability support for Java Message Service (JMS) 2.0 API on Azure Service Bus Premium
Use existing applications that leverage JMS 2.0 API to talk to Service Bus without any code changes. Only configuration changes are required. Read More for the details.