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AWS – IAM Access Analyzer makes it easier to implement least privilege permissions by generating IAM policies based on access activity
When we launched IAM Access Analyzer, we started by helping you remove unintended public and cross account access by analyzing your existing permissions. Recently, IAM Access Analyzer added policy validation to help you set secure and functional permissions during policy authoring. Now, we are taking that a step further and generating policies for you. You […]
AWS – Amazon Interactive Video Service adds support for recording live streams to Amazon S3
With Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) you can now save your live video content to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Saved video is available for actions like editing or replaying as a video on-demand (VOD). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache now supports Tag-Based Access Control
Amazon ElastiCache now supports tag-based access control and adding tags to additional cluster resources. By using tags for access control, your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users, groups, and roles get access only to the Amazon ElastiCache resources with matching tags. This provides you the capability to scale by reducing the number of distinct […]
AWS – Amplify iOS now available via Swift Package Manager (SPM)
AWS Amplify iOS can now be installed through the Swift Package Manager. iOS developers can interface with AWS services through Amplify iOS, which is a use case based client library. Developers have been importing Amplify iOS through dependency management tools like CocoaPods. With Swift 3.0, Apple introduced a native package management tool called Swift Package […]
AWS – Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.8.11
You can now launch RabbitMQ 3.8.11 brokers on Amazon MQ. This patch update to RabbitMQ contains several fixes and new features compared to the previously supported version, RabbitMQ 3.8.6. Read More for the details.
AWS – You can now deploy CloudFormation Stacks concurrently across multiple AWS regions using AWS CloudFormation StackSets
AWS CloudFormation StackSets announces the ability to deploy CloudFormation Stacks to multiple AWS regions in parallel. This reduces the overall stack set provisioning times and provides a performance improvement when using StackSets. StackSets extend the functionality of stacks by enabling you to create, update, or delete stacks across multiple AWS accounts and regions with a […]
AWS – AWS Backup now supports cost allocation tags for Amazon EFS Backups
AWS Backup now enables you to use cost allocation tags for Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) backups within AWS Billing and Cost Management. With cost allocation tags, you can get better transparency and visibility into your Amazon EFS backup costs. For example, you can allocate your Amazon EFS backup costs to different departments (e.g., […]
Azure – Public preview: Start VM on connect feature for Windows Virtual Desktop
You can now keep your VMs deallocated to save cost and have it automatically start up when a user connects. Read More for the details.
GCP – New flexibility; run your Dataprep jobs with BigQuery or Dataflow
Cloud Dataprep by Trifacta is Google Cloud’s intelligent data service for visually exploring, cleaning, and preparing structured and unstructured data for analytics and machine learning. Due to its serverless architecture, Dataprep does not need any infrastructure to deploy or manage, and is fully scalable. Designed and built through a partnership between Google and Trifacta – […]
GCP – Creating a serverless pipeline for real-time market data
Editor’s note: This is the second part in our special series on working with market data in Google Cloud. This post highlights how we leveraged serverless components to build a flexible data ingestion pipeline. Check out the first post on visualizing real-time market data in the cloud. Capital markets firms must rapidly extract insights from […]