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GCP – Reduce unexpected costs with the new AI-powered Cost Anomaly Detection
Controlling runaway spend and minimizing unexpected costs is a priority for every business. Imagine a scenario where faulty development or rogue code results in a usage spike over the weekend, unbeknownst to you. If not caught in time, this kind of usage can result in cost spikes that can exhaust your budgets and put a […]
GCP – How to protect your site from DDoS attacks with the power of Google Cloud networking and network security
Google Cloud constantly innovates and invests significantly in our capabilities to stop cyberattacks such as distributed denial-of-service attacks from taking down websites, apps, and services. It’s an essential part of protecting our customers. Our Project Shield offering, which uses Google’s Cloud networking and our Global Front End infrastructure to help defend against attacks, including stopping […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub launches 7 new security controls
AWS Security Hub has released 7 new security controls, increasing the total number of controls offered to 430. Security Hub now supports controls for new resource types, such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Multi-Region Access Points and Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) Connect. Security Hub also released new control for Amazon GuardDuty […]
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces now supports file transfer between WorkSpaces sessions and local devices
Amazon WorkSpaces is launching support for transferring files between a WorkSpaces Personal session and a local computer. This helps customers to manage and share files seamlessly, increasing their productivity. This is supported on personal WorkSpaces that use the DCV streaming protocol when using the Windows, Linux client applications or web access. With this launch, users […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now supports multi-day copy and paste of agent schedules
Amazon Connect now supports copying of agent schedules across multiple days, making management of agent schedules more efficient. You can now copy multiple days shifts from one agent to another agent or to the same agent, up to 14 days at a time. For example, if a new agent joins the team mid-month, you can […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 now supports Optimize CPUs post instance launch
Amazon EC2 now allows customers to modify an instance’s CPU options after launch. You can now modify the number of vCPUs and/or disable the hyperthreading of a stopped EC2 instance to save on vCPU-based licensing costs. In addition, an instance’s CPU options are now maintained when changing its instance type. The Optimize CPUs feature allows […]
AWS – AWS Application Composer is now AWS Infrastructure Composer
AWS Application Composer is now called AWS Infrastructure Composer. The new name emphasizes our capabilities in building infrastructure architectures. Since launching at re:Invent ’22, customers have told us how Application Composer has helped accelerate their serverless application architecture design with Application Composer’s simple drag-and-drop interface. Since the initial release, we have expanded our support to […]
AWS – Amazon Connect can now generate forecast for workloads with as little as one contact
Amazon Connect can now generate forecasts for smaller workloads, with as little as one contact, making it easier for contact center managers to predict demand. This eliminates the need for you to manually adjust historical data to meet minimum data requirements. By reducing minimum data requirements, you can now enable managers to generate forecasts for […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker JumpStart is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East) Regions
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Public sector customers can easily deploy and fine-tune open-weight models through the SageMaker Python SDK. Amazon SageMaker JumpStart is a machine learning (ML) hub that offers hundreds of pre-trained models and built-in algorithms to help you quickly get started with ML. Customers can […]
AWS – Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints now support DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) with Server Name Indication (SNI) validation
Starting today, you can provide Server Name Indication (SNI) with Route 53 Resolver endpoints for DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), allowing you to specify the target server hostname for DNS query requests from your outbound endpoints to DoH servers that require SNI for TLS validation. DoH on Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints allows you to encrypt DNS queries […]