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AWS – Amazon Inspector container image scanning is now available for Amazon CodeCatalyst and GitHub actions
Amazon Inspector now offers native integration with Amazon CodeCatalyst and GitHub actions for container image scanning, allowing customers to assess their container images for software vulnerabilities within their Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools, pushing security earlier in the software development lifecycle. With this expansion, Inspector now natively integrates with four developer tools including, […]

AWS – Announcing the common control library in AWS Audit Manager
AWS Audit Manager has introduced a common control library that simplifies the process of automating risk and compliance assessments against enterprise controls. This new library enables Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) teams to efficiently map their controls into Audit Manager for evidence collection. The new common control library provides pre-defined and pre-mapped AWS data sources, […]

AWS – AWS launches Tax Settings API to programmatically manage tax registration information
Today AWS launches AWS Tax Settings API, a new public API service that enables customers to programmatically view, set, and modify tax registration information and associated business legal name and address. This launch allows you to automate tax registration updates as an enhanced offering to the AWS Tax Settings page. Previously, customers managing tax registration […]

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports ingesting streaming data from Amazon MSK Serverless
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now allows you to ingest streaming data from Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) Serverless, enabling you to seamlessly index the data from Amazon MSK Serverless clusters in Amazon OpenSearch Service managed clusters or Serverless collections without the need for any third-party data connectors. With this integration, you can now use […]

AWS – Amazon Location Service launches Enhanced Location Integrity features
Amazon Location Service launches enhanced location integrity features, which offer tools to help developers evaluate the accuracy and authenticity of user-reported locations. With enhanced location integrity features, customers can now use predictive tools that anticipate user movements into or out of customer-specified areas, using criteria like time-to-breach and proximity to enhance monitoring and security measures. […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch GetMetricData API now supports AWS CloudTrail data event logging
Amazon CloudWatch now supports AWS CloudTrail data event logging for the GetMetricData and GetMetricWidgetImage APIs. With this launch, customers have greater visibility into metric retrieval activity from their AWS account for best practices in security and operational troubleshooting. CloudTrail captures API activities related to Amazon CloudWatch GetMetricData and GetMetricWidgetImage APIs as events. Using the information that […]

AWS – Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports GitHub Cloud source code with blueprints
Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports the use of source code repositories hosted in GitHub Cloud with its blueprints capability. This allows customers to create a project from a CodeCatalyst blueprint into a GitHub Cloud source repository and add a blueprint into an existing project’s GitHub Cloud source repository. It also enables customers to create custom blueprints […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 instance type finder capability is generally available in AWS Console
Today, Amazon Web Services, announced the availability of Amazon EC2 instance type finder, enabling you to select the ideal Amazon EC2 instance types for your workload. It uses machine learning to help customers make quick and cost-effective selections for instance types, before provisioning workloads. Using the AWS Management Console, customers can specify their workload requirements […]

AWS – AWS IoT Device Management adds a unified connectivity metrics monitoring dashboard
Today, AWS IoT Device Management announced the launch of a new connectivity metrics dashboard, enabling customers to easily identify connectivity patterns and configure operational alarms for their device fleet through a unified view. AWS IoT Device Management is a fully managed cloud service that helps you register, organize, monitor, and remotely manage Internet of Things […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Model Registry now supports machine learning (ML) governance information
Amazon SageMaker now integrates Model Cards into Model Registry, making it easier for customers to manage governance information for specific model versions directly in Model Registry in just a few clicks. Today, customers register ML models in Model Registry to manage their models. Now, with this launch, they can register ML model versions early in […]