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AWS – AWS Application Load Balancer introduces Certificate Authority advertisement to simplify client behavior while using Mutual TLS
Application Load balancer (ALB) now supports advertise Certificate Authority (CA) subject name stored in its associated Trust Store to simplify the certificate selection experience. By enabling this feature, the ALB will send a list of CA subject names to clients attempting to connect to the load balancer. Clients can use this list to identify which […]

AWS – AWS Application Discovery Service now supports data from commercially available discovery tools
Today, AWS announces additional file support for AWS Application Discovery Service (ADS), which adds the ability to import VMware data generated by 3rd-party datacentre tools. With today’s launch, you can now directly take an export from Dell Technology’s RVTools and load it into ADS without any file manipulation. ADS provides a system of record for […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduces highly responsive scaling policies
Today, we are launching two new capabilities to EC2 Auto Scaling (ASG) that improve the responsiveness of Target Tracking scaling policies. Target Tracking now automatically adapts to the unique usage patterns of your individual applications, and can be configured to monitor high-resolution CloudWatch metrics to make more timely scaling decisions. With this release, you can […]

AWS – Amazon S3 Connector for PyTorch now supports Distributed Checkpoint
Amazon S3 Connector for PyTorch now supports Distributed Checkpoint (DCP), improving the time to write checkpoints to Amazon S3. DCP is a PyTorch feature for saving and loading machine learning (ML) models from multiple training processes in parallel. PyTorch is an open source ML framework used to build and train ML models. Distributed training jobs […]

AWS – Find security, compliance, and operating metrics in AWS Resource Explorer
Today, AWS announced the general availability of a new console experience in AWS Resource Explorer that centralizes resource insights and properties from AWS services. With this release, you now have a single console experience to use simple keyword-based search for your AWS resources, view relevant resource properties, and confidently take action to organize your resources. […]

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports writing security data to Amazon Security Lake
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now allows you to write data into Amazon Security Lake in real-time, allowing you to ingest security data from both AWS and custom sources and uncover valuable insights into potential security issues in near-realtime. Amazon Security Lake centralizes security data from AWS environments, SaaS providers and on- premises into a purpose-built data […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight now supports import visual capability (preview)
Amazon QuickSight introduces the ability to import visuals from an existing dashboard or analysis into your current analysis where authors have ownership privileges. This feature streamlines dashboard and report creation by allowing you to transfer associated dependencies such as datasets, parameters, calculated fields, filter definitions, and visual properties, including conditional formatting rules. Authors can boost […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches Highcharts visual (preview)
Amazon QuickSight now offers Highcharts visuals, enabling authors to create custom visualizations using the Highcharts Core library. This new feature extends your visualization capabilities beyond QuickSight’s standard chart offerings, allowing you to create bespoke charts such as sunburst charts, network graphs, 3D charts and many more. Using declarative JSON syntax , authors can configure charts […]

AWS – Amazon CloudFront now supports additional log formats and destinations for access logs
Amazon CloudFront announces enhancements to its standard access logging capabilities, providing customers with new log configuration and delivery options. Customers can now deliver CloudFront access logs directly to two new destinations: Amazon CloudWatch Logs and Amazon Data Firehose. Customers can select from an expanded list of log output formats, including JSON and Apache Parquet (for […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches Image component
Amazon QuickSight now includes Image Component. This provides authors greater flexibility to incorporate static images into their QuickSight dashboards, analysis, reports and stories. With Image component, Authors can upload images directly from your local desktop to QuickSight for a variety of use cases, such as adding company logos and branding, including background images with free-form […]