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GCP – Introducing Certificate Authority Service: Securing Applications with Private CAs and Certificates
Digital certificates underpin identity and authentication for many networked devices and services. Recently, we’ve seen increased interest in using public key infrastructure (PKI) in DevOps and device management, particularly for IoT devices. But one of the most fundamental problems with PKI remains—it’s hard to set up Certificate Authorities (CA), and even harder to do it […]
GCP – Achieve least privilege with less effort using IAM Recommender
As cloud adoption grows, we’re seeing exponential growth in cloud resources. With this we’re also seeing growth in permissions, granted to humans and workloads, to access and change those resources. This introduces potential risks, including the misuse of privileges, that can compromise your organization’s security. To mitigate these risks, ideally every human or workload should […]
GCP – A better, safer normal: Helping you modernize security in the cloud or in place
During the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, many organizations expected a slowdown in their digital transformation efforts. Instead, we saw many enterprises accelerate their use of cloud-based services to help them manage and address emerging priorities in the new normal, which includes a distributed workforce and new digital strategies. Today, to kick off […]
Azure – Custom Translator upgrade and Regional data residency
Custom Translator team is being upgraded to V2 phase-1 to take advantage of the state-of-the-art neural machine translation (NMT) architecture available in Microsoft Translator. This architecture powers translation for Microsoft services such as Office 365, Teams, Speech Services, Bing.com, and Translator, along with other services. Data residency support is also being enabled to meet corporate […]
AWS – NICE DCV Releases Version 2020.1 with Arm instance support and printer redirection
We are pleased to announce the release of NICE DCV version 2020.1 with the following new features: DCV Linux server support for AWS Graviton2-based Arm instances such as M6g/C6g/R6g Support for printer redirection on DCV Windows server and client Support for RHEL 8 and CentOS 8 on Linux server Stylus support with pressure sensitivity on […]
AWS – EC2 Image Builder components can now be developed locally
Customers of EC2 Image Builder can now develop and troubleshoot components to customize and test Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) on their laptops or development & test servers. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EKS quotas can now be managed through AWS Service Quotas
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) administrators can now view and manage their EKS quotas through AWS Service Quotas. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Fargate launches Usage Metrics and applied Service Quotas visibility
You can now view and manage your quotas (also referred to as limits) using Service Quotas for AWS Fargate, the serverless compute engine for containers that works with both Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Service Quotas consolidates the default values and your account specific applied values for Fargate On-Demand […]
AWS – AWS Data Exchange now supports adding data sets to existing products
AWS Data Exchange now enables data providers to publish additional data sets to their existing products. Starting today, data providers who want to structure their data across multiple data sets or who want to enrich their products with additional data can now publish additional data sets to their products using the AWS Data Exchange console […]
AWS – Amazon ECS announces CloudFormation support for Amazon EFS volumes
Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) announced CloudFormation support for adding Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) volumes to ECS tasks. Customers can automate the creation and management of tasks using EFS volumes through infrastructure as code. Read More for the details.