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AWS – AWS Secrets Manager now enables you to attach resource-based policies to secrets from the AWS Secrets Manager console and uses Zelkova to validate these policies
The AWS Secrets Manager console now supports attaching resource-based policies to your secrets, enabling you to access secrets across AWS accounts securely and easily. The Secrets Manager console also uses Zelkova, an automated reasoning engine, to validate and block automatically policies that may grant broad access to your secrets across AWS accounts. This integration further […]

AWS – Identify, arrange, and manage secrets easily using enhanced search in AWS Secrets Manager
AWS Secrets Manager now enables you to search secrets based on attributes such as secret name, description, tag keys, and tag values. With this launch, you can easily identify, arrange, and manage your secrets in to logical groups that are used by specific applications, departments, or employees. You can use this functionality through the Secrets […]

AWS – Amazon AppFlow now sends flow status notifications to Amazon CloudWatch Events
Amazon AppFlow is a fully managed integration service that enables customers securely transfer data between AWS services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications in just a few clicks. Amazon AppFlow now integrates with Amazon CloudWatch Events to publish events related to the status of a flow including start of a flow run, completion of a flow run […]

AWS – Amazon Neptune is now available in the US West (N. California) Region
Amazon Neptune is now available in the AWS US West (N. California) Region. You can now create Neptune clusters using R5 and T3 instance types in this region for your graph applications. Read More for the details.

AWS – Provisioned product outputs are now available in AWS Service Catalog
AWS Service Catalog now supports obtaining outputs from a Service Catalog provisioned product in an AWS CloudFormation template. Product outputs provide the interface from one product to another. With this new feature, administrators and developers can easily refer to those outputs in order to combine the products needed for their applications, which saves time building […]

AWS – Amazon Neptune supports specifying conditions in IAM policy using tags
Amazon Neptune now provides the flexibility to specify conditions in IAM policies using tags. Tags can be added to a Neptune resource such as a DB cluster or instance. Using tags, you can restrict management operations on the cluster without using the cluster or instance resource identifiers. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Launch Wizard for SAP supports integration with Amazon Route53 for domain naming and routing outbound internet connections via your own Proxy Servers
AWS Launch Wizard for SAP is now integrated with Amazon Route53 as the Domain name system. Starting today, you can choose a Route53 hosted zone as the domain name system for SAP systems deployed with AWS Launch Wizard. Launch Wizard creates DNS records in the chosen Route53 hosted zone eliminating the need to maintain /etc/hosts […]

AWS – AWS Managed Services now supports Oracle Linux 7.5 and later minor versions
AWS Managed Services (AMS) now supports launching Amazon EC2 instances of Oracle Linux 7.5 and later minor versions. Enterprises can now migrate their workloads using Oracle Linux 7.5 into AMS using workload ingest process or by creating new EC2 instances. AMS performs patching, monitoring, back-up management, log aggregation, security management, incident management, and problem management […]

GCP – AutoML Tables: end-to-end workflows on AI Platform Pipelines
AutoML Tables lets you automatically build, analyze, and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning models using your own structured data. It’s useful for a wide range of machine learning tasks, such as asset valuations, fraud detection, credit risk analysis, customer retention prediction, analyzing item layouts in stores, solving comment section spam problems, quickly categorizing audio content, predicting […]
GCP – Enabling hybrid deployments with Cloud CDN and Load Balancing
Like many Google Cloud customers, you probably have content, workloads or services that are on-prem or in other clouds. At the same time, you want the benefit of high availability, low latency, and convenience of a single anycast virtual IP address that HTTP(S) Load Balancing and Cloud CDN provide. To enable these hybrid architectures, we’re […]