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AWS – AWS WAF Bot and Fraud Control RuleGroup is now available in 6 additional AWS Regions
Starting today, you can use AWS WAF Bot and Fraud Control RuleGroup in 6 additional AWS regions: Middle East (UAE), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne), and Israel (Tel Aviv). With this launch, AWS WAF Bot and Fraud Control is available in all AWS Regions, except Canada West (Calgary), AWS […]

GCP – Investigating FortiManager Zero-Day Exploitation (CVE-2024-47575)
Written by: Foti Castelan, Max Thauer, JP Glab, Gabby Roncone, Tufail Ahmed, Jared Wilson Summary In October 2024, Mandiant collaborated with Fortinet to investigate the mass exploitation of FortiManager appliances across 50+ potentially compromised FortiManager devices in various industries. The vulnerability, CVE-2024-47575 / FG-IR-24-423, allows a threat actor to use an unauthorized, threat actor-controlled FortiManager […]

AWS – Amazon Connect now offers screen sharing
The Amazon Connect screen sharing capability enables agents to quickly gain an understanding of issues and help guide the customer, accelerating resolution and sales, and reducing customer frustration. Agents and end users can leverage screen sharing with Amazon Connect Web and Video calls and pass contextual information to Amazon Connect to personalize the customer experience. […]

AWS – Research and Engineering Studio on AWS Version 2024.10 now available
Today we’re excited to announce Research and Engineering Studio (RES) on AWS Version 2024.10. This release adds new features such as virtual desktop instance auto-stop, project level home file systems, file browser availability control, and customizable DCV permissions. Instance auto-stop gives administrators the ability to automatically stop or terminate idle sessions to save costs. Admins […]

AWS – AWS IAM Identity Center simplifies calls to AWS services with single identity context
AWS IAM Identity Center now enables the use of a single identity context to propagate the identity of users requesting access to AWS services, simplifying the experience of application developers. Previously, application developers that wanted to enable their applications to use trusted identity propagation, had to call AWS services using two different IAM role sessions […]

AWS – Amazon MWAA now simplifies interaction with the Airflow REST API
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports a simplified mechanism for interacting with the Apache Airflow REST API using AWS credentials. This feature enables customers to programmatically manage and automate workflows, enhancing ease of use and integration capabilities across their Apache Airflow environments. Amazon MWAA is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow […]

AWS – Amazon Connect launches iOS and Android Chat SDKs to support in-app chat experiences
Amazon Connect Chat now offers SDKs for iOS and Android, allowing you to deliver native in-app chat experiences that improve customer satisfaction and reduce operational costs. These SDKs provide pre-built components for network and session management, along with a sample UX application, streamlining integration and ensuring seamless, resilient in-app chat experiences. Amazon Connect Chat SDK […]

AWS – NVIDIA GPU Time-slicing Now Available for Bottlerocket to Enhance AI/ML Workload Efficiency
Today, AWS has announced the introduction of NVIDIA GPU Time-slicing support for Bottlerocket, the Linux-based operating system purpose-built for hosting containers, with a focus on security, minimal footprint, and safe updates. This new feature addresses the challenge of maximizing GPU utilization in multi-tenant and resource-constrained environments by enabling more efficient GPU resource sharing for Artificial […]

AWS – EC2 Image Builder now supports Apple macOS
EC2 Image Builder now supports Apple macOS operating system, allowing customers to use macOS as base images for their image pipelines. This capability enables customers to create and manage custom macOS images with the same ease as they do today for supported Windows and Linux distributions. Previously, customers had to manually build their up-to-date macOS […]
AWS – Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics introduces Query Insights
Today, Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics announces the launch of Query Insights, a feature that provides details of your query execution, enabling you to identify areas for improvement to optimize your queries, resulting in improved query performance and lower query costs. Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics is a serverless time-series database that automatically scales to ingest and […]