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GCP – What’s New in Assured Workloads: Enable updates and new control packages
Compliance isn’t a one-time goal; it’s an ongoing process. As your organization and the regulatory environment evolve, so too does Assured Workloads. Here are the latest additions to our portfolio of software-defined controls and policies that can make supporting your compliance requirements easier on Google Cloud. Introducing Compliance Updates An Assured Workloads control package is […]

AWS – Amazon VPC Lattice is now available in 7 additional Regions
Amazon VPC Lattice is now available in 7 additional AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), South America (São Paulo), and US West (N. California). Amazon VPC Lattice is an application networking service that simplifies connecting, securing, and monitoring service-to-service communication. You can use Amazon VPC Lattice […]

AWS – Announcing AWS Support Official channel on AWS re:Post
Today, AWS announces the launch of the AWS Support Official channel on AWS re:Post. AWS customers now have access to curated content for operating at scale on AWS, authored by AWS Support and AWS Managed Services (AMS) experts. In this new channel, you can find technical solutions for complex problems, operational best practices, and insights […]

AWS – AWS CloudFormation Git sync now supports pull request workflows to review your stack changes
AWS CloudFormation Git sync now allows you to review your stack changes via Pull Request (PR) comments before they are deployed to CloudFormation. With this launch, you get a clear overview of the changes in your deployments within the PR. CloudFormation Git sync will automatically post the change set information as comments to each new […]

AWS – Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 G6e instances
Today we are announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 G6e instances powered by NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs. G6e instances can be used for a wide range of machine learning and spatial computing use cases. G6e instances deliver up to 2.5x better performance compared to G5 instances and up to 20% lower inference costs […]

AWS – Digital twin is now generally available for AWS Ground Station
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of the digital twin feature for AWS Ground Station, which provides virtualized ground station infrastructure that allows you to perform space-to-ground compatibility testing. AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, process data, and scale your operations without having to worry […]

AWS – Amazon ECS provides the ability to restart containers without requiring a task relaunch
Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) now improves container resiliency by giving you the ability to define a flexible container restart policy for restarting individual containers locally, without requiring a full task relaunch. With local container restarts, Amazon ECS can recover your containers from unexpected failures within a few seconds, enhancing your overall task stability […]

AWS – AWS CodeBuild now supports multiple access tokens via AWS Secrets Manager
AWS CodeBuild now supports configuring multiple access tokens for each source provider. You can store your OAuth or personal access tokens in AWS Secrets Manager, and specify them in CodeBuild projects. This feature is available for your GitHub, GitHub Enterprise and Bitbucket source repositories. With multiple access tokens, you can use different tokens with scoped […]

AWS – AWS Control Tower launches landing zone version selection
AWS Control Tower customers can now select from a set of versions when performing a landing zone update, reset, or upgrade operation. Starting with landing zone version 3.1 and above, customers can update or reset in-place their landing zone on their current version, or upgrade to a version of their choice. A landing zone is […]
AWS – AWS CodeBuild now supports using GitHub Apps to access source repositories
AWS CodeBuild now integrates with GitHub Apps as the authentication method to access your repositories. A GitHub App connection can be set as the default authentication method for all projects, or can be specified for an individual project source. With GitHub Apps, you can use short-lived tokens with fine-grained permissions, and have control over which […]