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AWS – Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift now available in 3 additional regions
Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now supported in 3 additional regions: Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Mexico (Central). This expansion enables customers to run high-performance analytics on their DynamoDB data in Amazon Redshift with no impact on production workloads running on DynamoDB. With this launch, DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift now supports multiple integrations
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift now supports up to five integrations from the same Aurora cluster. This enhancement allows customers to create multiple zero-ETL integrations between a single Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL cluster and same or different Amazon Redshift warehouses, providing greater flexibility and efficiency in […]
AWS – Amazon ECR announces ECR to ECR pull through cache
Amazon ECR announces ECR to ECR pull through cache, a capability that allows customers to automatically sync container images between two ECR private registries, existing across AWS regions and/or accounts. This enables customers to benefit from the reduced latency of pulling cached images in-region. With today’s release, Amazon ECR makes it easier for customers to […]
AWS – Amazon Inspector expands ECR support for minimal container base images and enhanced detections
Today, we are excited to announce support for scratch, distroless (Debian/Ubuntu based), and Chainguard image scanning with Amazon Inspector. With the expanded support for ECR images, Amazon Inspector extends its security coverage to minimal and security-focused container bases, enabling teams to maintain robust security practices even with highly optimized container environments. For ECR scanning, Amazon […]
GCP – Project Shield makes it easier to sign up, set up, automate DDoS protection
As part of Google’s commitment to making the world’s information universally accessible, we offer Project Shield to at-risk organizations who need free distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection. Organizations in eligible categories, including news publishers, government elections, and human rights defenders, can use the power of Google Cloud’s networking services to help keep their websites available and […]
GCP – Ghost in the Router: China-Nexus Espionage Actor UNC3886 Targets Juniper Routers
Written by: Lukasz Lamparski, Punsaen Boonyakarn, Shawn Chew, Frank Tse, Jakub Jozwiak, Mathew Potaczek, Logeswaran Nadarajan, Nick Harbour, Mustafa Nasser Introduction In mid 2024, Mandiant discovered threat actors deployed custom backdoors on Juniper Networks’ Junos OS routers. Mandiant attributed these backdoors to the China-nexus espionage group, UNC3886. Mandiant uncovered several TINYSHELL based backdoors operating on […]
GCP – Companies achieve stronger results with Customer Engagement Suite, plus new AI-enabled capabilities
The demands for top-notch customer service have never been greater — but so are the rewards for those companies that can deliver on the promise. Indeed, organizations with higher customer loyalty scores have delivered 3.5 times more cumulative shareholder return over 10 years, according to Bain & Company. While technology has largely fueled these rising […]
GCP – How to deploy serverless AI with Gemma 3 on Cloud Run
Today, we introduced Gemma 3, a family of lightweight, open models built with the cutting-edge technology behind Gemini 2.0. The Gemma 3 family of models have been designed for speed and portability, empowering developers to build sophisticated AI applications at scale. Combined with Cloud Run, it has never been easier to deploy your serverless workloads […]
AWS – Amazon Nova Creative Models now available in Europe
Today, Amazon announces the expansion of Amazon Nova creative models, including Amazon Nova Canvas and Amazon Nova Reel, to Europe (Dublin). These models are designed to generate high-quality images and videos from text and image inputs, providing customizable visual content for various applications. This expansion addresses the growing demand for automated, high-quality visual content generation, […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Allowed AMIs now integrates with AWS Config
Allowed AMIs, an account-wide Amazon EC2 setting that enables you to limit the discovery and use of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) within your AWS accounts, now integrates with AWS Config. You can now use AWS Config rules to automatically monitor, detect, and report instances launched using AMIs that have not been allowed by Allowed AMIs. […]