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AWS – Amazon Cognito now supports passwordless authentication for low-friction and secure logins in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, Amazon Cognito announced support for passwordless authentication for low-friction and secure logins in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Amazon Cognito now allows you to secure user access to your applications with passwordless authentication, including sign-in with passkeys, email, and text message. Passkeys are based on FIDO standards and use public key cryptography, which enables […]
AWS – Announcing new feature tiers: Essentials and Plus for Amazon Cognito in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Cognito launches new user pool feature tiers, Essentials and Plus, in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The Essentials tier offers comprehensive and flexible user authentication and access control features, allowing customers to implement secure, scalable, and customized sign-up and sign-in experiences for their application within minutes. It supports password-based log-in, multi-factor authentication (email, SMS, […]
AWS – Amazon EMR on EKS now supports Amazon EKS Pod Identity
Today, Amazon EMR on EKS announces support for Amazon EKS Pod Identity, simplifying the setup of IAM permissions required by EMR on EKS jobs to access other AWS resources. With this launch, you can configure IAM permissions through a single API call, significantly reducing complexity and potential for errors. The new feature also allows you […]
GCP – Introducing tiered storage for Spanner
Today, we are excited to announce fully managed tiered storage for Spanner, a new capability that lets you use larger datasets with Spanner by striking the right balance between cost and performance, while minimizing operational overhead through a simple, easy-to-use, interface. Spanner powers mission-critical operational applications at organizations in financial services, retail, gaming, and many […]
AWS – Amazon Connect broadens global telephony coverage
Amazon Connect announces the expansion of access to industry-leading inbound number availability across 158 countries, national outbound numbers in 72 countries, and global international dialing capabilities from any supported AWS commercial region. This expansion increases telephony coverage by an average of 125% across AWS regions. Organizations can now focus on selecting the ideal location for […]
AWS – AWS WAF Targeted Bot Control is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Starting today, you can use AWS WAF Targeted Bot Control in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS WAF Targeted Bot Control protects applications against sophisticated bots targeting critical enterprise applications like e-commerce and financial services websites. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps you protect your web application resources against common web exploits […]
AWS – Amazon ECS now offers GPU-Optimized AMI for Amazon Linux 2023
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) today introduced GPU-optimized Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023). This new offering enables customers to run GPU-accelerated containerized workloads on Amazon ECS while leveraging improved security features and newer kernel version available on AL2023. The new ECS GPU-optimized AMI is built on the minimal AL2023 base […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Inference now supports rolling update for inference component endpoints
Amazon SageMaker Inference now supports rolling updates for inference component (IC) endpoints. This allows customers to update running IC endpoints without traffic interruption while using minimal extra instances, rather than requiring doubled instances as in the past. SageMaker Inference makes it easy to deploy ML models, including foundation models (FMs). As a capability of SageMaker […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge expands enhanced event source discovery to AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon EventBridge enhanced event source discovery, which displays the source and detail type of all AWS service events during rule creation in the AWS console, is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This makes it easier for customers to discover and utilize the full range of AWS service events when building event-driven architectures. […]
GCP – Unraveling Time: A Deep Dive into TTD Instruction Emulation Bugs
Written by: Dhanesh Kizhakkinan, Nino Isakovic Executive Summary This blog post presents an in-depth exploration of Microsoft’s Time Travel Debugging (TTD) framework, a powerful record-and-replay debugging framework for Windows user-mode applications. TTD relies heavily on accurate CPU instruction emulation to faithfully replay program executions. However, subtle inaccuracies within this emulation process can lead to significant […]