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AWS – AWS Amplify Hosting announces deployment skew protection support
AWS Amplify Hosting is excited to offer Skew Protection, a powerful feature that guarantees version consistency across your deployments. This feature ensures frontend requests are always routed to the correct server backend version—eliminating version skew and making deployments more reliable. You can enable this feature at the branch level in the Amplify Console under App […]
AWS – Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3 now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for Amazon S3 in AWS GovCloud (US) regions. This expansion of GuardDuty Malware Protection allows you to scan newly uploaded objects to Amazon S3 buckets for potential malware, viruses, and other suspicious uploads and take action to isolate them before they are […]
AWS – AWS Backup adds logically air-gapped vault support for Amazon FSx
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault support for Amazon FSx for Lustre, Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, and Amazon FSx for OpenZFS. Logically air-gapped vault is a type of AWS Backup vault that allows secure sharing of backups across accounts and organizations, supporting direct restore to reduce recovery […]
AWS – AWS Backup adds support for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS in additional AWS Regions
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup support for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS in 13 additional AWS Regions. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) and third-party applications. With this launch, AWS Backup […]
AWS – AWS Service Reference Information now supports resources and condition keys
Today, AWS is expanding service reference information to include resources and condition keys, providing a more comprehensive view of service permissions. Service reference information streamlines automation of policy management workflows, helping you retrieve available actions across AWS services from machine-readable files. Whether you are a security administrator establishing guardrails for workloads or a developer ensuring […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20250213
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20250213. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of MySQL. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including minor and major version upgrades, in the Amazon RDS User Guide. Amazon […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight now available in the Europe (Spain) Region
Amazon QuickSight a fast, scalable, and fully managed Business Intelligence service that lets you easily create and publish interactive dashboards across your organization is now available in Spain Region. QuickSight dashboards can be authored on any modern web browser with no clients to install or manage; dashboards can be shared with 10s of 1000s of […]
GCP – Streamlined Security: Introducing Network Security Integration
Many Google Cloud customers have deep investments in third-party ISV security solutions such as appliances to secure their networks and enforce consistent policies across multiple clouds. However, integrating these security solutions into the cloud application environment comes with its own set of challenges: Network re-architecture: Integrating third-party appliances for traffic inspection often necessitates a network […]
GCP – The ultimate guide to learning at Google Cloud Next 2025
Get ready to dive deep and level up your cloud skills at Google Cloud Next ’25. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting your cloud journey, you’ll have more learning opportunities at Next than ever before. From hands-on challenges to expert-led workshops on AI and ML, Next ’25 (April 9-11, 2025) is your chance […]
GCP – 10 months to innovation: Definity’s leap to data agility with BigQuery and Vertex AI
At Definity, a leading Canadian P&C insurer with a history spanning over 150 years, we have a long tradition of innovating to help our customers and communities adapt and thrive. To stay ahead in our rapidly evolving industry, we knew a unified data foundation was key to realizing the business and customer experience opportunities offered […]