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AWS – Amazon Route 53 DNS Firewall adds protection against Dictionary-based DGA attacks
Starting today, you can enable Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Advanced to monitor and block queries associated with Dictionary-based Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) attacks, that generate domain names by pseudo-randomly concatenating words from a predefined dictionary, creating human-readable strings to evade detection. Route 53 DNS Firewall Advanced is an offering on Route 53 DNS Firewall […]
GCP – A methodical approach to agent evaluation: Building a robust quality gate
AI is shifting from single-response models to complex, multi-step agents that can reason, use tools, and complete sophisticated tasks. This increased capability means you need an evolution in how you evaluate these systems. Metrics focused only on the final output are no longer enough for systems that make a sequence of decisions. A core challenge […]
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Applications expands the regional availability to Italy, Spain, Malaysia, and Israel
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded the regional availability for Amazon WorkSpaces Applications. Starting today, AWS customers can deploy their applications and desktops in the AWS Europe (Milan), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions and stream them using WorkSpaces Applications. Deploying your applications in a region closer to your end users […]
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Applications adds new instance types and configurable storage options
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now offers enhanced flexibility features that provide customers with more choices for compute and configurable storage volume. Customers can also import their custom EC2 AMIs to create Amazon WorkSpaces images. These new capabilities help customers better match resources to their specific application requirements while optimizing costs. The service now includes 100+ additional […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift now supports writing to Apache Iceberg tables
Amazon Redshift today announces the general availability of write capability to Apache Iceberg tables, enabling users to run analytics read and write queries for append-only workloads on Apache Iceberg tables within Amazon Redshift. Amazon Redshift is a petabyte-scale, enterprise-grade cloud data warehouse service used by tens of thousands of customers. Whether your data is stored […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 reduces costs for Microsoft SQL Server High-Availability deployments
Today, AWS announced that you can now designate Amazon EC2 instances running license-included SQL Server as part of a High-Availability (HA) cluster to reduce licensing costs with just a few clicks. This enhancement is particularly valuable for mission-critical SQL Server databases with Always On Availability Groups and/or Always On failover cluster instances. For example, you […]
AWS – Announcing EC2 Image Builder support for Lambda and Step functions
EC2 Image Builder now supports invoking Lambda functions and executing Step Functions state machine through image workflows. These capabilities enable you to incorporate complex, multi-step workflows and custom validation logic into your image creation process, providing greater flexibility and control over how your images are built and validated. Prior to this launch, customers had to […]
AWS – AWS Backup now supports backing up directly to a logically air-gapped vault
AWS Backup now supports logically air-gapped vaults as a primary backup target. You can assign a logically air-gapped vault as the primary target in backup plans, organization-wide policies, or on-demand backups. Previously, logically air-gapped vaults could only store copies of existing backups. This capability reduces storage costs for customers who want the security and recoverability […]
AWS – Amazon Route 53 Profiles now supports Resolver query logging configurations
Today, AWS announced support for Resolver query logging configurations in Amazon Route 53 Profiles, allowing you to manage Resolver query logging configuration and apply it to multiple VPCs and AWS accounts within your organization. With this enhancement, Amazon Route 53 Profiles simplifies the management of Resolver query logging by streamlining the process of associating logging […]
AWS – Amazon U7i instances now available in AWS Europe (Ireland) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 12TB of memory (u7i-12tb.224xlarge) are now available in the AWS Europe (Ireland) Region. U7i-12tb instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-12tb instances offer 12TB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction […]