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AWS – Announcing Accessibility Conformance Reports (ACRs) in AWS Artifact
Accessibility Conformance Reports (ACRs) for AWS products and services are now available on AWS Artifact, a self-service portal for AWS compliance-related information. ACRs are documents that demonstrate the accessibility of AWS services. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Config advanced queries support 35 new resource types
AWS Config supports 35 new resource types in advanced queries. Advanced queries within AWS Config is a feature that allows you to search the current configuration metadata and compliance state of your AWS resources based on their configuration properties. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS launches Split Cost Allocation Data for Amazon EKS
Starting today, customers can receive granular cost visibility for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) in the AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR), enabling you to analyze, optimize, and chargeback cost and usage for your Kubernetes applications. With AWS Split Cost Allocation Data for Amazon EKS, customers can now allocate application costs to individual business units […]
GCP – New storage-optimized Z3 VMs deliver industry-leading IOPS
Storage-dense workloads need consistent performance, high SSD density, and predictable maintenance that preserves SSD data. Last week at Google Cloud Next ‘24, we announced the general availability of the Z3 machine series, our first storage-optimized VM family. With an industry-leading 6M 100% random-read and 6M write IOPs, an incredibly dense storage configuration of up to […]
GCP – Hyperdisk Storage Pools: Simplify block storage management and lower TCO
At Google Cloud Next 2024 we announced the general availability of Hyperdisk Storage Pools, the first block storage offering from a hyperscale cloud provider to offer thin-provisioning, data reduction, and capacity pooling. Hyperdisk Storage Pools help you lower your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by as much as 30-50%, helping you achieve higher efficiency, modernize […]
GCP – What’s new in Cloud Pub/Sub at Next ’24
Organizations are increasingly adopting streaming technologies, and Google Cloud offers a comprehensive solution for streaming ingestion and analytics. Cloud Pub/Sub is Google Cloud’s simple, highly scalable and reliable global messaging service. It serves as the primary entry point for you to ingest your streaming data into Google Cloud and is natively integrated with BigQuery, Google […]
GCP – Unearthing APT44: Russia’s Notorious Cyber Sabotage Unit Sandworm
Written by: Gabby Roncone, Dan Black, John Wolfram, Tyler McLellan, Nick Simonian, Ryan Hall, Anton Prokopenkov, Luke Jenkins, Dan Perez, Lexie Aytes, Alden Wahlstrom With Russia’s full-scale invasion in its third year, Sandworm (aka FROZENBARENTS) remains a formidable threat to Ukraine. The group’s operations in support of Moscow’s war aims have proven tactically and operationally […]
AWS – Monitor internet outage using the weather map in CloudWatch Internet Monitor
All AWS customers navigate to Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor console can now view the internet weather map, at no charge, which shares a 24-hour global snapshot of internet latency and availability outages. The map lets you see, at a glance, recent internet issues across the world, including specific cities and service providers. Read More for […]
AWS – Amazon Athena announces federated query pass-through
Today, Amazon Athena announced federated query pass-through, a new feature that allows entire queries to be executed directly on the underlying data source. Federated query pass-through allows you to take advantage of the unique functions, query language, and performance capabilities of different data sources, and can result in faster query execution and less data processed by […]
AWS – Amazon Cognito is now available in Europe (Spain) Region
Amazon Cognito is now available in Europe (Spain) Region. Amazon Cognito makes it easy to add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. Amazon Cognito scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via standards such […]