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AWS – AWS Glue G4 and G8 worker types now available in six new regions
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Glue G.4X and G.8X workers in the US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (London), Europe (Spain), and South America (São Paulo) AWS regions. Glue G.4X and G.8X workers enable you to run your most demanding serverless data integration workloads in these additional […]

AWS – Amazon SNS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Amazon SNS now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for API requests enabling you to communicate with Amazon SNS using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), or dual stack clients using public endpoints. Amazon SNS is a fully managed messaging service that enables publish/subscribe messaging between distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven […]

AWS – Amazon Security Lake now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Amazon Security Lake customers can now use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses via new dual-stack endpoints to configure and manage the service. This update addresses the growing need for IPv6 adoption due to the exhaustion of available Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses caused by continued internet growth. Amazon Security Lake automatically centralizes security […]

AWS – AWS Step Functions expands SDK integrations with Amazon Backup Search and 137 additional APIs
AWS Step Functions expands its AWS SDK integrations with support for Amazon Backup Search. You can now orchestrate backup discovery and management actions directly in your workflows without writing additional integration code. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating over 14,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to help customers […]

AWS – Amazon Q Business Browser Extension now available to all subscribers
Today, Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of Amazon Q Business browser extensions for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge to all Q Business subscribers. Now, all Q Business users can supercharge their browsers’ intelligence and receive context-aware, generative AI assistance directly within their web pages. The Amazon Q Business browser extensions enhance […]

AWS – Amazon Kendra GenAI Index now available in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions
Amazon Kendra is an AI-powered search service enabling organizations to build intelligent search experiences and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems to power generative AI applications. Starting today, AWS customers in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions can use the GenAI Index for RAG and intelligent search. With the Kendra GenAI Index, customers get high […]

AWS – AWS IAM Identity Center is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) AWS Region
You can now deploy AWS IAM Identity Center in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) AWS Region. With the addition of this AWS Region, IAM Identity Center is now available in 34 AWS Regions globally. IAM Identity Center is the recommended service for managing workforce access to AWS applications and multiple AWS accounts. Use IAM Identity Center […]

AWS – AWS Elemental MediaLive Anywhere now supports SMPTE 2110 inputs
AWS Elemental MediaLive Anywhere now supports SMPTE ST 2110 professional broadcast input standards on your own hardware. With this new capability, you can ingest professional IP-based video, audio, and metadata streams directly into MediaLive Anywhere nodes running on your own infrastructure, while maintaining centralized control using the AWS Management Console. SMPTE 2110 support, which requires […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports Innovation Release 11.8 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB Innovation Release 11.8 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the latest Innovation Release on Amazon RDS for MariaDB. You can deploy MariaDB 11.8 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database, making it simpler to […]
GCP – Suspected China-Nexus Threat Actor Actively Exploiting Critical Ivanti Connect Secure Vulnerability (CVE-2025-22457)
Written by: John Wolfram, Michael Edie, Jacob Thompson, Matt Lin, Josh Murchie On Thursday, April 3, 2025, Ivanti disclosed a critical security vulnerability, CVE-2025-22457, impacting Ivanti Connect Secure (“ICS”) VPN appliances version 22.7R2.5 and earlier. CVE-2025-22457 is a buffer overflow vulnerability, and successful exploitation would result in remote code execution. Mandiant and Ivanti have identified […]