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GCP – 3 ways to restrict access to your Cloud Data Fusion instance and pipelines
Cloud Data Fusion is a fully managed, cloud-native, enterprise data integration service for visually building and managing data pipelines that are secure. Restricting access is one of the key ways it delivers on its security goals. In this blog, we explain three different ways to manage access control in Cloud Data Fusion: Instance-level access control […]
GCP – Announcing new stream recovery capabilities for Datastream
In the complex and ever-changing world of data replication, replication pipelines are prone to failure. Identifying the cause and time of failure can be a difficult task, and you must perform a series of manual steps to reinitiate replication while minimizing data integrity issues. The new stream recovery feature in Datastream enables you to quickly […]
AWS – Amazon GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring now supports Ubuntu and Debian OS
The Amazon GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring eBPF security agent now supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) workloads that use the Ubuntu (Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04) and Debian (Debian 11 and Debian 12) operating system. If you use GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring with automated agent management then GuardDuty will automatically upgrade the security agent for […]
AWS – EvolutionaryScale’s ESM3, a frontier language model family for biology, now available on AWS
EvolutionaryScale’s ESM3 1.4B open source language model is now generally available on AWS through Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and AWS HealthOmics, with the full family coming soon. Amazon SageMaker JumpStart is a ML hub with foundation models, built-in algorithms, and prebuilt ML solutions that can be deployed with just a few clicks. AWS HealthOmics is a […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 3TiB of memory are now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge announces new console dashboard
Amazon EventBridge announces a new console dashboard providing you with a centralized view of your EventBridge resources, metrics, and quotas. The dashboard leverages CloudWatch metrics, allowing you to monitor account level metrics such as PutEvents, Matched Events, and Invocations for Buses, Concurrency and Throttles for Pipes, and Invocations and Errors for ScheduledGroups. Additionally, the dashboard […]
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces introduces support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
AWS today announced support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon WorkSpaces Personal. This operating system includes built-in security features that help organizations to run virtual desktops securely, while increasing agility and reducing cost. With this launch, WorkSpaces Personal customers have the flexibility to choose from a wider range of operating systems including Red Hat […]
AWS – Announcing Data Quality Definition Language (DQDL) enhancements for AWS Glue Data Quality
Customers use AWS Glue Data Quality, a feature of AWS Glue, to measure and monitor quality of their data. They author data quality rules using DQDL to ensure their data is accurate . Customers need the ability to author rules for complex business scenarios that include filter conditions, exclusion conditions, validations for empty values, and […]
AWS – AWS CodeBuild build timeout limit increased to 36 hours
AWS CodeBuild now enables customers to increase their build timeout up to 36 hours compared to the prior limit of 8 hours. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. This setting represents the maximum amount of time before CodeBuild stops […]
AWS – Amazon CodeCatalyst now allows conversion of source repositories to custom blueprints
Today, AWS announces a new capability that enables customers to convert an existing source repository into a custom blueprint in Amazon CodeCatalyst. Custom blueprints give teams the ability to define and propagate best practices for application code, workflows, and infrastructure. However, many customers have already defined these best practices in one or more existing source […]