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AWS – Amazon CloudWatch announces AI-Powered natural language query generation
Amazon CloudWatch announces the general availability of natural language query generation powered by generative AI for Logs Insights and Metrics Insights. This feature enables you to quickly generate queries in context of your logs and metrics data using plain language. By simplifying the query generation process, you can accelerate gathering insights from your observability data […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL announces Extended Support minor 11.22-RDS.20240509
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 11.22-RDS.20240509. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of PostgreSQL. Amazon RDS Extended Support provides you more time, up to three years, to upgrade to a new major version to […]
AWS – Amazon Security Lake is now available in the the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Security Lake is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can now centralize security data from AWS environments, SaaS providers, on premises, and cloud sources into a purpose-built data lake stored in your Amazon S3 account. Security Lake makes it easier to analyze security data, gain a more comprehensive understanding of security […]
AWS – AWS CloudFormation accelerates dev-test cycle with adjustable timeouts for custom resources
AWS CloudFormation launches a new property for custom resources called ServiceTimeout. This new property allows customers to set a maximum timeout for the execution of the provisioning logic in a custom resource, enabling faster feedback loops in dev-test cycles. CloudFormation custom resources allow customers to write their own provisioning logic in CloudFormation templates and have […]
GCP – Enhancing the HPC experience with Slurm-GCP v6 and TPU support
On Google Cloud, our HPC-optimized infrastructure, including the AI Hypercomputer, can be deployed in multiple ways according to user preferences. For customers that want a Slurm-based environment, we recommend using the Cloud HPC Toolkit, a Google product that helps simplify the creation and management of HPC systems for AI/ML and traditional HPC workloads. The Toolkit […]
GCP – Move from always-on privileges to on-demand access with new Privileged Access Manager
We are continually enhancing Google Cloud’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) capabilities to help our customers strengthen their security posture. To help mitigate the risks associated with excessive privileges and misuses of elevated access, we are excited to announce Google Cloud’s built-in Privileged Access Manager (PAM). Now available in preview, PAM helps you achieve the […]
GCP – How you can build a FedRAMP High-compliant network with Assured Workloads
Google Cloud recently achieved a major U.S. government compliance milestone with more than 130 services, including 12 additional Cloud Networking services, approved for FedRAMP High authorization — the strictest standard for protecting the most sensitive unclassified data. To help our customers securely deploy a network architecture that aligns with FedRAMP High, we have outlined several […]
GCP – UNC5537 Targets Snowflake Customer Instances for Data Theft and Extortion
Introduction Through the course of our incident response engagements and threat intelligence collections, Mandiant has identified a threat campaign targeting Snowflake customer database instances with the intent of data theft and extortion. Snowflake is a multi-cloud data warehousing platform used to store and analyze large amounts of structured and unstructured data. Mandiant tracks this cluster […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Serverless is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) region
Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) region. With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users, including data analysts, developers, and data scientists, can use Amazon Redshift to get insights from data in seconds. […]
AWS – Amazon API Gateway customers can easily secure APIs using Amazon Verified Permissions
Amazon Verified Permissions expanded support for securing Amazon API Gateway APIs, with fine grained access controls when using an Open ID connect (OIDC) compliant identity provider. Developers can now control access based on user attributes and group memberships, without writing code. For example, say you are building a loan processing application. Using this feature, you […]