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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 […]
AWS – Amazon Cognito is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)
Amazon Cognito is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) 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 […]
AWS – Amazon Corretto April, 2024 quarterly updates
On April 16, 2024 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) and Feature Release (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 22.0.1, 21.0.3, 17.0.11, 11.0.23, 8u412 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Network Manager is now available in AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
Starting today, AWS Network Manager is available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. AWS Network Manager reduces the operational complexity of managing global networks across AWS and on-premises locations. It provides a single global view of your private network. You can visualize your global network in a topology diagram and monitor your network using […]
AWS – Amazon MWAA adds larger environment sizes
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now offers larger environment sizes, giving customers of the managed service the ability to define a greater number of workflows in each Apache Airflow environment, supporting more complex tasks that can utilize increased resources. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing the AWS Well-Architected Tool Connector for Jira
Today, AWS Well-Architected introduces a new connector for Jira, which helps you create a closed-loop mechanism to efficiently manage and track your risks over time. You can now configure the Well-Architected Tool to generate Jira tickets and send updates directly to the Well-Architected Tool as tickets are resolved. Read More for the details.