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AWS – AWS Shield Advanced now supports resource tagging
AWS Shield Advanced now supports tagging of protected resources and protection groups. You can use tagging to restrict the ability to create or modify protections to sensitive resources via IAM policies, or to organize and track your AWS Shield Advanced costs at the tag level. Resource tagging allows you to define custom names for protected […]
AWS – Amazon EKS now supports creation and management of add-ons using AWS CloudFormation
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now allows you to create and manage EKS add-ons using AWS CloudFormation. EKS add-ons provide lifecycle management for Kubernetes operational software, making it easy to consistently start and update common and critical add-on software for your EKS clusters. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS IoT Device Defender now supports CloudFormation
AWS IoT Device Defender now supports AWS CloudFormation for creating and configuring AWS IoT Device Defender resources such as scheduled audits and Security Profiles in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR introduces instance fleets to help lower cost and improve cluster provisioning in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon EMR now supports instance fleets: a new way to provision clusters in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Instead of specifying an Amazon EC2 availability zone for your Amazon EMR cluster and an Amazon EC2 instance type for an Amazon EMR instance group, you can now provide a list of availability zones and instances, and Amazon […]
Azure – Azure VMware Solution now generally available in the Southeast Asia region
The new Azure VMware Solution has expanded availability to Southeast Asia (Singapore). This update is in addition to the existing availability in US East, US West, West Europe, Australia, Japan East, UK South, Canada Central, North US, and North Europe (Dublin) regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew adds binning, skewness, binarization, and transpose transformations for pre-processing data for machine learning and analytics
AWS Glue DataBrew adds four new visual transformations – Binning, Skewness, Binarization, and Transpose helping data analysts and data scientists leverage these transformations without writing any code. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS IoT Device SDK for Embedded C now supports over-the-air update, AWS IoT Device Defender custom metrics, and multiple shadows for a single IoT device
The over-the-air update (OTA), AWS IoT Device Defender custom metrics, and AWS IoT Device Shadow named shadow features are now generally available in AWS IoT Device SDK for Embedded C (C-SDK) version 202103.00. With this release, developers can use the C-SDK libraries to update firmware, manage device fleets, monitor fleet metrics, and create multiple shadows […]
GCP – Introducing Apache Spark Structured Streaming connector for Pub/Sub Lite
Today we’re excited to announce the release of an open source connector to read streams of messages from Pub/Sub Lite into Apache Spark. Pub/Sub Lite is a scalable, managed messaging service for Spark users on GCP who are looking for an exceptionally low-cost ingestion solution. The connector allows you to use Pub/Sub Lite as a […]
GCP – How to use Packet Mirroring for IDS in different VPC designs
When migrating from on-premises to the cloud, many Google Cloud customers want scalable solutions to detect and alert on higher-layer network anomalies, keeping the same level of network visibility they have on-prem. The answer may be to combine Packet Mirroring with an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) such as the open-source Suricata, or some other preferred […]
AWS – AWS CloudFormation now supports Amazon S3 on Outposts
You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to create and manage Amazon S3 on Outposts resources, allowing you to create buckets, endpoints and access points. Amazon S3 on Outposts delivers object storage to your on-premises AWS Outposts environment to meet local data processing and data residency needs. Using Amazon S3 APIs and features, Amazon S3 […]