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AWS – AWS Step Functions adds support for Amazon SageMaker Processing
You can now include Amazon SageMaker Processing in your machine learning workflows created using AWS Step Functions, allowing you to build data processing and compute steps into your machine learning workflows without leaving the SageMaker service. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR now offers more options to diversify your Spot requests and get steep discounts
You can specify up to fifteen EC2 instance types on instance fleets using allocation strategy to diversify your spot requests and get steep discounts. Previously, instance fleets allowed only a maximum of five instance types. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports Private Link endpoints
Starting today, AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now offers PrivateLink endpoints. ACM Private CA support for AWS PrivateLink enables you to use ACM Private CA APIs inside of your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and route data between your VPC and Private CA entirely within the AWS network. Read More for the […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 11.7 in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database, we have updated Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility to support PostgreSQL version 11.7 in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This release contains bug fixes and improvements from the PostgreSQL community. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Security Center—News and updates for July 2020
New enhancements and updates were made to Azure Security Center in July 2020. Read More for the details.
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 […]