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AWS – AWS Secrets Manager receives DoD Impact Level 4 and 5 authorization
AWS Secrets Manager has been authorized by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) under DoD’s Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (DoD CC SRG) at Impact Levels (IL) 4 and IL 5 in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With this authorization, DoD Mission Owners can now use Secrets Manager to support unclassified National Security Systems (NSS) […]
AWS – AWS CloudFormation Guard – an open-source CLI for infrastructure compliance – is now generally available
AWS CloudFormation announces the general availability (GA) of AWS CloudFormation Guard (cfn-guard), which enhances the preview release of cfn-guard (June 2020) with new features. Cfn-guard is an open-source command line interface (CLI) that checks CloudFormation templates for policy compliance using a simple, policy-as-code, declarative language. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing general availability of waiters in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x
We are pleased to announce the general availability of the waiters feature in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x . The waiters feature is an abstraction that enables you to validate that AWS resources, such as DynamoDB tables or Amazon S3 buckets, are in a specified state before performing operations on those resources. When interacting […]
AWS – Amazon ECS extensions for AWS Cloud Development Kit now available as a Developer Preview
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now has a developer preview module in the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), which implements an extendable service construct. Instead of writing JSON task definitions for your services by hand, you can model and provision ECS resources using familiar programming languages. The new ECS service construct for CDK supports extensions […]
AWS – AWS Marketplace launches Geo-Fencing to allow sellers to control availability by country
AWS Marketplace Independent Software Vendors are now able to create new or update existing product listings to control product availability to specific countries. Since launch in 2012, AWS Marketplace products have been available globally. Some Independent Software Vendors need to control where their software can be purchased for tax, compliance, support, or marketing purposes. With […]
AWS – AWS DeepRacer announces new Community Races updates
AWS DeepRacer allows you to get hands-on with machine learning (ML) through a fully autonomous 1/18th scale race car driven by reinforcement learning, a 3D racing simulator on the AWS DeepRacer console, a global racing league, and hundreds of customer-initiated community races. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon MQ is now available in the Europe (Milan) region
Amazon MQ is now available in a total of 19 regions, with the addition of the Europe (Milan) region. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure portal September 2020 update
Updates include improvements to the ARM template deployment experience, a variety of updates for Azure Blob Storage, and more. Read More for the details.
AWS – IP Multicast on AWS Transit Gateway is now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Starting today AWS Transit Gateway supports internet protocol (IP) multicast in Asia Pacific (Singapore) and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Read More for the details.
Azure – Monitor Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes with Metric Alerts
Learn how to configure recommended metric alerts for monitoring your Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes clusters. Read More for the details.