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AWS – AWS Storage Gateway expands FIPS 140-2 compliant endpoints to all North America Regions
AWS Storage Gateway now offers Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 compliant endpoints in all North America Regions to protect sensitive information for regulated workloads. These endpoints terminate Transport Layer Security (TLS) sessions using a FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic software module, making it easier for you to use Storage Gateway for regulated workloads. Companies contracting […]

AWS – Manage access to AWS centrally for OneLogin users with AWS Single Sign-On
Customers can now connect their OneLogin Identity Management Platform (OneLogin) to AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) once, manage access to AWS centrally in AWS SSO, and enable end users to sign in using OneLogin to access all their assigned AWS accounts. The integration helps customers simplify AWS access management across multiple accounts while maintaining familiar OneLogin […]

AWS – Amazon GuardDuty now available in AWS Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) Regions
Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) Regions. You can now continuously monitor and detect security threats in these regions to help protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data stored in Amazon S3. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon GuardDuty expands threat detection coverage to help you better protect your data stored in Amazon S3
Amazon GuardDuty broadens threat detection coverage to monitor for highly-suspicious data access and anomaly detection to help you better protect your data residing in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). This new capability adds S3 data events (LISTs/PUTs/GETs) as a new log and event source that GuardDuty continuously profiles to monitor data access behavior, combine […]

AWS – AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS now supports UDP load balancing with Network Load Balancer
You can now use a Network Load Balancer (NLB) to distribute UDP traffic to container-based applications running on AWS Fargate orchestrated by Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). Network Load Balancers are fully-managed load balancers that operate at the connection level (Layer-4) and are capable of handling millions of requests at ultra-low latency. Until now, you […]

AWS – AWS DeepComposer launches new learning capsule that deep dives into training an autoregressive CNN model
Today, we are excited to release a new learning capsule that deep dives into training an autoregressive convolutional neural network model (AR-CNN) in AWS DeepComposer. AWS DeepComposer gives developers a creative way to get started with machine learning (ML). With AWS DeepComposer, developers can get hands-on, literally, with a musical keyboard and the latest machine […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora Supports In-Place Upgrade from PostgreSQL 10 to 11
Starting today, you can upgrade your Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility database cluster from major version 10 to 11, with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations Now Support Windows BYOL
Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations now allows you to bring your own licenses (BYOL) of Windows operating systems. With this release, you can now create an EC2 Capacity Reservation and launch EC2 instances, running your existing Windows licenses, into the Capacity Reservation. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Data Explorer LightIngest now supports actual creation time for historical data migration
LightIngest is a command-line utility for large volumes of data ingestion, and for querying records on the time created, rather than the time ingested. Read More for the details.
GCP – Infrastructure for all: What happened at Next OnAir this week
Week three of Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir was all about our best-in-class cloud infrastructure, and how to use it to easily run your most demanding applications. From opening remarks from VP of Cloud Infrastructure Brad Calder, Networking GM Shailesh Shukla, and Compute GM June Yang, to deep dives from Google Cloud experts, to breakout […]