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AWS – AWS Systems Manager now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoint policies
AWS Systems Manager now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoint policies, which allow you to configure access to the Systems Manager API. When you create Amazon VPC endpoints for Systems Manager, you can attach AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) resource policies that restrict user access to Systems Manager API operations, when these […]
GCP – What’s new in BigQuery ML: non-linear model types and model export
We launched BigQuery ML, an integrated part of Google Cloud’s BigQuery data warehouse, in 2018 as a SQL interface for training and using linear models. Many customers with a large amount of data in BigQuery started using BigQuery ML to remove the need for data ETL, since it brought ML directly to their stored data. […]
AWS – Amazon MSK now offers consumer lag metrics and select topic-level metrics for free
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) now offers consumer lag metrics for new Amazon MSK clusters by default, making it easier for you to track whether your applications are consuming the latest data available in your Apache Kafka cluster. Consumer lag metrics quantify the difference between the latest data written to Apache Kafka topics […]
AWS – AWS Client VPN adds support in additional Regions
AWS Client VPN is now available in the Paris, Milan, Cape Town, Bahrain, and Hong Kong Regions. This increases global coverage of AWS Client VPN and brings the total number of available Regions to twenty. Read More for the details.
GCP – Money matters: Automating your Cloud Billing budgets
The bigger a cloud environment, the more important it is to have robust cost management tools, including budget automation capabilities. Budgeting tools can help you avoid unnecessary costs via proactive notifications of future (and actual) overages. Billing automation can help you support multiple budgets, each with very granular filters (we have customers with thousands of […]
GCP – You do you: How to succeed in a distributed, multi-cloud world
Why do we use more than one thing to solve a particular need? Sometimes we don’t have a choice. All my financial assets aren’t in one place because my employer-provided retirement account is at a different financial institution than my personal account. Other times, we purposely diversify. I could buy all my clothes at one […]
AWS – AWS Single Sign-On adds Web Authentication (WebAuthn) support for user authentication with security keys and built-in biometric authenticators
AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) now enables you to secure user access to AWS accounts and business applications using multi-factor authentication (MFA) with FIDO-enabled security keys, such as YubiKey, and built-in biometric authenticators, such as Touch ID on Apple MacBooks and facial recognition on PCs. With this release, AWS SSO now supports the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds Java Application Monitoring
Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights today announces the ability to easily add monitoring for Java applications for your enterprise applications. CloudWatch Application Insights is a simple to use capability that with just a few clicks guides customers through setting up monitoring and enhanced observability for enterprise applications running on AWS resources. The new feature monitors metrics […]
AWS – Amazon Connect adds additional call attributes to improve fraud detection and routing
Starting today, you can access additional call attributes in your contact flow to build integrations that can authenticate incoming phone calls more accurately, reduce handle times, and enable greater personalization. Additional call attributes from telephony carriers, such as the geographic location of the voice equipment where the call originated, type of phone devices such as […]
AWS – Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer announces tag support to better organize resources
Today, we are excited to announce additional capabilities with Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer. You can now add tags to associated repositories to better identify, organize, and manage your AWS resources. Read More for the details.