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GCP – The Cyber Threat Intelligence Program Design Playbook is now available
As cybersecurity threats have grown more sophisticated and prevalent, we’ve seen organizations develop robust cyber threat intelligence (CTI) programs to help bolster defenses. However, creating and maturing a CTI program remains a challenge because it requires people, processes, technologies, and metrics to validate success. To help organizations better operationalize threat intelligence, we’ve published the CTI […]
GCP – Achieve peak SAP S/4HANA performance with Compute Engine X4 machines
Enterprise workloads like SAP S/4HANA present unique challenges when migrating to a public cloud, making the choice of a cloud provider critically important. As an in-memory database for large SAP deployments, SAP HANA can have massive memory and CPU processing requirements, and that can just be the beginning of the challenges. Businesses are generating, processing, […]
GCP – Become Among the First Certified Chrome Enterprise Administrators
As employees increasingly rely on browsers to access cloud-based applications, collaborate on projects, and more, it’s key that IT and security teams ensure they’re properly configured, updated, and protected. This includes deploying a dedicated browser management solution across their organization. This is where Chrome Enterprise Core comes in. Chrome Enterprise Core provides IT teams with […]
AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 users can now save their user preferences between streaming sessions
Amazon AppStream 2.0 now enables end users to save their client preferences when streaming through a web browser or AppStream 2.0 client application for Windows. These preferences will be applied automatically when the user connects again using the same client, helping to provide consistent experience across sessions. Users can now customize and save AppStream 2.0 […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaConnect Gateway now supports source-specific multicast
AWS Elemental MediaConnect Gateway now supports source-specific multicast (SSM). This new feature allows you to specify both a multicast group address and an optional source IP address when creating or updating MediaConnect Gateway bridge sources, offering greater flexibility, security, and efficiency in your workflows. SSM support enhances control by allowing you to pull content from […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 instances support bandwidth configurations for VPC and EBS
AWS announces the general availability of Instance Bandwidth Configurations (IBC) for 8th generation, Graviton based instances. With IBC, customers can adjust the VPC and EBS service bandwidth, by up to 25%, on their EC2 instances. When increasing the bandwidth for one of the service, say VPC, the available bandwidth for the other service, EBS, is […]
AWS – AWS Resource Explorer supports 59 new resource types
AWS Resource Explorer now supports 59 more resource types across all AWS commercial Regions from services including Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Kendra, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer, and Amazon SageMaker. With this release, customers can now search for the following resource types in AWS Resource Explorer: access-analyzer:analyzer airflow:environment […]
AWS – AWS Cloud Map now supports Service Level Attributes
AWS Cloud Map now supports service-level attributes, enabling you to store and access information directly at the service level. With AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) tasks, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon DynamoDB tables, or other cloud resources. […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB announces support for FIPS 140-3 interface VPC and Streams endpoints
Amazon DynamoDB is a serverless, NoSQL, fully managed database with single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-3 is a US and Canadian government standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive information. Today, we are announcing the general availability of FIPS 140-3 interface endpoint […]
AWS – AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Osaka, Japan
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Telehouse OS2 data center in Osaka, Japan. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Osaka location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This is […]