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AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus as a destination
Today, AWS announced support for a new Apache Flink connector for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus. The new connector, contributed by AWS for the Apache Flink open source project, adds Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus as a new destination for Apache Flink. You can now manage your Prometheus metrics data cardinality by pre-processing raw data […]
AWS – AWS CodePipeline now supports publishing ECR image and AWS InspectorScan as new actions
AWS CodePipeline introduces the ECRBuildAndPublish action and the AWS InspectorScan action in its action catalog. The ECRBuildAndPublish action enables you to easily build a docker image and publish it to ECR as part of your pipeline execution. The InspectorScan action enables you to scan your source code repository or docker image as part of your […]
AWS – AWS Artifact enhances agreements with improved access control and tracking
We are excited to announce enhancements to the agreement functionality on AWS Artifact that will improve how you manage and track agreement execution. You can now provide fine-grained access to agreements in AWS Artifact at the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Action and Resource level. To make it easy for you to configure IAM […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Ending ransomware starts with more reporting
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for November 2024. Today, Monica Shokrai, head of business risk and insurance, Google Cloud, and Kimberly Goody, cybercrime analysis lead, Google Threat Intelligence Group, explore the role cyber-insurance can play in combating the scourge of ransomware. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are […]
AWS – AWS Application Load Balancer introduces Certificate Authority advertisement to simplify client behavior while using Mutual TLS
Application Load balancer (ALB) now supports advertise Certificate Authority (CA) subject name stored in its associated Trust Store to simplify the certificate selection experience. By enabling this feature, the ALB will send a list of CA subject names to clients attempting to connect to the load balancer. Clients can use this list to identify which […]
AWS – AWS Application Discovery Service now supports data from commercially available discovery tools
Today, AWS announces additional file support for AWS Application Discovery Service (ADS), which adds the ability to import VMware data generated by 3rd-party datacentre tools. With today’s launch, you can now directly take an export from Dell Technology’s RVTools and load it into ADS without any file manipulation. ADS provides a system of record for […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduces highly responsive scaling policies
Today, we are launching two new capabilities to EC2 Auto Scaling (ASG) that improve the responsiveness of Target Tracking scaling policies. Target Tracking now automatically adapts to the unique usage patterns of your individual applications, and can be configured to monitor high-resolution CloudWatch metrics to make more timely scaling decisions. With this release, you can […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Connector for PyTorch now supports Distributed Checkpoint
Amazon S3 Connector for PyTorch now supports Distributed Checkpoint (DCP), improving the time to write checkpoints to Amazon S3. DCP is a PyTorch feature for saving and loading machine learning (ML) models from multiple training processes in parallel. PyTorch is an open source ML framework used to build and train ML models. Distributed training jobs […]
AWS – Find security, compliance, and operating metrics in AWS Resource Explorer
Today, AWS announced the general availability of a new console experience in AWS Resource Explorer that centralizes resource insights and properties from AWS services. With this release, you now have a single console experience to use simple keyword-based search for your AWS resources, view relevant resource properties, and confidently take action to organize your resources. […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports writing security data to Amazon Security Lake
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now allows you to write data into Amazon Security Lake in real-time, allowing you to ingest security data from both AWS and custom sources and uncover valuable insights into potential security issues in near-realtime. Amazon Security Lake centralizes security data from AWS environments, SaaS providers and on- premises into a purpose-built data […]