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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.
AWS – Amazon EKS now supports the Los Angeles AWS Local Zones
You can now run Kubernetes pods as part of your Amazon EKS Kubernetes clusters in the two AWS Local Zones in Los Angeles. With Amazon EKS and Local Zones, you can run latency-sensitive Kubernetes applications closer to end-users in Los Angeles. Once you have opted-in for using AWS Local Zones, you can create a VPC […]
AWS – AWS Batch now supports Custom Logging Configurations, Swap Space, and Shared Memory
AWS Batch now supports new parameters when specifying AWS Batch job definitions, including custom logging configurations, swap space, and shared memory. AWS Batch enables developers, scientists, and engineers to easily and efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS. AWS Batch dynamically provisions the optimal quantity and type of compute resources (e.g., […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift announces support for HyperLogLog Sketches
Amazon Redshift introduces support for natively storing and processing HyperLogLog (HLL) sketches. HyperLogLog is a novel algorithm that efficiently estimates the approximate number of distinct values in a data set. HLL sketch is a construct that encapsulates the information about the distinct values in the data set. You can use HLL sketches to achieve significant […]
Azure – Reserved capacity on Azure SQL Database Hyperscale is now available
Obtain discounts on Azure SQL Database Hyperscale using reserved capacity. Read More for the details.
Azure – New analytics and windowing capabilities in Stream Analytics
The latest update of Azure Stream Analytics includes extended SQL language operators such as new windowing and analytics functions; and improvements of existing features. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Transfer Family supports FIPS 140-2 compliant endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Transfer Family now offers Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 compliant endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions to protect sensitive information. These endpoints terminate Transport Layer Security (TLS) sessions using a FIPS 140-2 compliant cryptographic software module, making it easier for you to use Transfer Family for regulated workloads. Read More for the details.