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AWS – Amazon API Gateway allows subprotocols on a WebSocket API connection
While building a WebSocket API with Amazon API Gateway, you can now send back Sec-WebSocket-Protocol field as part of the response from $connect route. This means clients can now request specific subprotocols while connecting to your WebSocket API. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Corretto for Alpine Linux now in preview
Amazon Corretto, a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK, is now in preview for Alpine Linux. Read More for the details.
GCP – Announcing API management for services that use Envoy
Among forward-looking software developers, Envoy has become ubiquitous as a high-performance pluggable proxy, providing improved networking and observability capability for increased services traffic. Built on the learnings of HAProxy and nginx, Envoy is now an official Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, and has many fans—including among users of our Apigee API management platform. To help […]
GCP – Setting up advanced network threat detection with Packet Mirroring
When you’re trying to detect—or thwart—an attack, the network can be a good line of defense: attackers could compromise a VM and you could lose access to endpoint data, but you likely still have access to network data. An effective threat detection strategy is to use network data, logs, and endpoint data to gain visibility […]
AWS – Introducing AWS CloudFormation Guard (Preview) – a new open-source CLI for infrastructure compliance
AWS CloudFormation announces the preview of AWS CloudFormation Guard (cfn-guard), an open-source command line interface (CLI) that helps enterprises keep their AWS infrastructure and application resources in compliance with their company policy guidelines. Cfn-guard provides compliance administrators with a simple, policy-as-code language to define rules that can check for both required and prohibited resource configurations. […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh within Auto Scaling Groups
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you automatically update the instances in your Auto Scaling Groups (ASG) to release new application versions or make infrastructure changes. Traditionally, customers had to write custom scripts and build systems to update ASG configurations with new AMIs. With the new Instance Refresh feature, customers can now trigger configuration updates […]
Azure – Azure Private Link for Azure Batch is now generally available in select regions
Azure Private Link for Azure Batch is now generally available in the West US 2, East US, South Central US, US Gov Virginia, and US Gov Arizona regions Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS AppConfig announces the launch of hosted configurations
AWS announces the launch of AWS AppConfig hosted configurations, a new feature that simplifies on-boarding to AWS AppConfig to enable customers to deploy configurations in seconds. AWS AppConfig makes it easy for AWS customers to quickly roll out application configurations across applications hosted on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, containers, AWS Lambda, mobile […]
AWS – Sellers, Consulting Partners, and Data Providers from UAE, Bahrain, Norway, and Switzerland Now Available in AWS Marketplace and AWS Data Exchange
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), consulting partners, and data providers from United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Norway, and Switzerland are now eligible to sell software and data products in AWS Marketplace and AWS Data Exchange. These offerings add to the global catalog of 7,000+ software and data products from 1,500+ ISVs and data providers in AWS […]
AWS – AWS Certificate Manager Extends Automation of Certificate Issuance Via CloudFormation
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now supports CloudFormation templates for automating SSL/TLS certificate issuance for DNS-validated certificates with domains managed in Route 53, issuance of private certificates from an ACM Private Certificate Authority, and configuration of certificate transparency (CT) logging. Read More for the details.