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AWS – Announcing AWS Transfer Family workshop for building secure file transfer solutions using SFTP
AWS Transfer Family now provides an interactive workshop for building file transfer solutions using Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP). With this workshop in AWS Workshop Studio, you can learn how to build secure and automated business-to-business file transfer workflows in AWS, and integrate data from remote business partners in your applications and data lakes. Read […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch now supports tagging alarms with AWS CloudFormation
Amazon CloudWatch now supports using AWS CloudFormation to manage tags when you create, update, or delete alarms. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Cognito is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region
Starting today, customers can use Amazon Cognito in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) 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 […]

AWS – Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports adding tasks to issues
Today, AWS announces that CodeCatalyst Issues now support breaking down issues into smaller units called tasks. CodeCatalyst customers can now add up to 100 tasks within a single issue to further organize and plan out the work involved. Tasks can be added when creating a new issue or later added to existing issues and can […]

AWS – Amazon IVS Low-Latency Streaming now supports SRT ingest
Starting today, you can use the Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) protocol to broadcast to your Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) channels. This new protocol, in addition to RTMPS, expands options for live streaming and helps to maintain video quality when sent across varying network conditions. Read More for the details.

AWS – Research and Engineering Studio on AWS Version 2024.04 now available
Today we’re excited to announce the release of Research and Engineering Studio (RES) on AWS Version 2024.04. This latest release brings new customization options for RES virtual desktops along with new options for shared storage and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) streaming. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon VPC CNI now supports automatic subnet discovery
You can now leverage tag-based subnet discovery capability of Amazon VPC CNI to scale Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters in IPv4 address space without adding operational complexity. In this new default mode, Kubernetes Pod IP addresses are allocated from all tagged and available subnets in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud(VPC). Read More for the […]

AWS – Amazon Cognito customers can secure access to APIs using Amazon Verified Permissions
AWS has launched a feature for Amazon Cognito customers to reduce the time spent securing Amazon API Gateway APIs with fine-grained access control, from weeks to days. The feature leverages Amazon Verified Permissions to manage and evaluate granular security policies that reference user attributes and groups. With a few clicks, you can enforce that only […]

GCP – Developers, check out these app dev sessions at Next ‘24
Google Cloud Next ‘24 is right around the corner, and this year, there will be even more for developers to enjoy. Whether you’re on the generative AI kick or keeping up with what’s new with Javascript frameworks, there’s a session for technical practitioners in the Application Developers Zone! Meet the experts and get inspired to […]
GCP – Attention DevOps engineers: Top managed container sessions to add to your Next ‘24 agenda
Google Cloud Next ‘24 is around the corner, and it’s the place to be if you’re serious about cloud development! Starting April 9 in Las Vegas, this global event promises a deep dive into the latest updates, features, and integrations for the services of Google Cloud’s managed container platform, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Cloud […]