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AWS – AWS Control Tower releases 2 new descriptive control APIs
AWS Control Tower customers can now programmatically get descriptions for managed controls. These APIs enable automation of AWS Control Tower’s library of managed controls improving ease of use for control deployment. With this release customers can extend AWS Control Tower governance into regions where some of their enabled controls are not available. Customers can also […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service OR1 instances now available in Sao Paulo
OR1, the OpenSearch Optimized Instance family, is now available in South America (Sao Paulo). OR1 delivers up to 30% price-performance improvement over existing instances (based on internal benchmarks), and uses Amazon S3 to provide 11 9s of durability. The new OR1 instances are best suited for indexing-heavy workloads, and offers better indexing performance compared to […]
AWS – New version of Amazon ECR basic scanning is now generally available
Today, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) announced the general availability of a new version of basic scanning. The new version of ECR basic scanning uses Amazon’s native scanning technology, which is designed to provide customers with improved scanning results and vulnerability detection across a broad set of popular operating systems. This allows customers to further […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Europe (Frankfurt) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 18TiB of memory (u-18tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Europe (Frankfurt) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart […]
GCP – Join Google Cloud Security Summit 2024 for a masterclass in modernizing security
As your organization works to strengthen your security program, two complementary initiatives can help make a major impact: taking advantage of secure cloud platforms, and integrating dynamic intelligence and security operations. We’re emphasizing both of these in the dual-track agenda at our annual Google Cloud Security Summit on August 20. Join us to learn about […]
GCP – Announcing LangChain on Vertex AI for AlloyDB and Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL
Among application developers, LangChain is one of the most popular open-source LLM orchestration frameworks. To help developers use LangChain to create context-aware gen AI applications with Google Cloud databases, in March we open-sourced LangChain integrations for all of our Google Cloud databases including Vector stores, Document loaders, and Chat message history. And now, we’re excited […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now supports additional agent scheduling staffing rules
Amazon Connect now supports additional agent scheduling staffing rules, making it easier to schedule agents while complying with labor, union, and other contractual rules. You can now configure five new rules for scheduling agents in Amazon Connect: minimum rest period between shifts, minimum rest period per week, maximum consecutive working days, maximum consecutive day of […]
AWS – Elastic Load Balancing Trust Store now supports cross-account sharing using AWS Resource Access Manager
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) Trust Stores now supports a new capability that enables cross-account sharing via AWS RAM (Resource Access Manager). This feature allows customers to centrally manage their ELB Trust Stores across multiple accounts to streamline trust store management and enable consistent Mutual TLS configurations across Application Load Balancers (ALBs). With this launch, ELB […]
AWS – Amazon DataZone offers business use case-based grouping with data products
Today, Amazon DataZone introduces data products, which enable the grouping of data assets into well-defined, self-contained packages tailored for specific business use cases. For example, a marketing analysis data product can bundle various data assets, such as marketing campaign data, pipeline data, and customer data. With data products, customers can simplify discovery and subscription processes, […]
AWS – Amazon Verified Permissions improves support for OIDC identity providers
Amazon Verified Permissions has simplified implementing fine-grained authorization for developers using third party identity providers, such as Okta, CyberArk and Transmit security. Developers can now authorize user actions, based on attributes and group memberships, managed within their own open id connect (OIDC) compliant identity provider. For example, in a insurance claims processing application, you can […]