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GCP – Securing Cloud Run Deployments with Least Privilege Access
With Cloud Run, developers can quickly deploy production web applications and APIs on a serverless environment that runs on top of Google’s scalable infrastructure. While development teams can leverage Cloud Run to improve development agility and iterate quickly, many overlook their infrastructure’s security posture. In particular, one aspect of security that does not get enough […]
GCP – Local SSD for high-performance storage on Google Kubernetes Engine
Customers on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) use Local SSD for applications that need to rapidly download and process data eg. AI/ML, analytics, batch, in-memory caches. These applications download data to the Local SSD from object storage such as Google Cloud Storage (GCS) and process this data in applications running as pods on GKE. As data […]
GCP – What would you build with $500 in Google Cloud credits included with Innovators Plus?
Imagine you had $500 in Google Cloud credits to build whatever you want. That’s what you get when you start an Innovators Plus subscription, along with a range of other benefits including: access to the entire catalog of on-demand training on Google Cloud Skills Boost, a certification exam voucher, invite-only quarterly technical briefings, and live-learning […]
AWS – Amazon MQ adds AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) support for RabbitMQ brokers
Amazon MQ now supports the AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to create and manage keys for at-rest encryption of customer data for RabbitMQ brokers. Amazon MQ handles the encryption and decryption seamlessly, so you don’t have to change your applications to access your data. When you create a broker, you can now select the […]
AWS – Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region
Customers can now create file systems using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public Preview: Jobs API to support bulk import in Azure Digital Twins
Public preview for bulk import support for Azure Digital Twins Read More for the details.
AWS – Request tracing for customizations now available for AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform
AWS Control Tower now provides you with the ability to trace a customization request through the entire AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) workflow. With AFT, Terraform customers can automate the creation of fully functional accounts that grant them access to all the resources they need to be productive. This feature enhancement allows […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 X2iedn instances now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) region
Starting today, memory optimized Amazon EC2 X2iedn instances are available in Asia-Pacific(Osaka) region. X2iedn instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and delivers improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous generation X1e instances. X2iedn instances have a memory to vCPU ratio of 32:1 and are […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Grafana now supports network access control
Amazon Managed Grafana now supports inbound network access control that helps you to restrict user access to your Grafana workspaces. Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service for Grafana, a popular open-source analytics platform that enables you to query, visualize, and alert on your metrics, logs, and traces. With this launch, you have granular […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for Amazon DynamoDB now supports AWS CloudFormation for Global Tables
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for Amazon DynamoDB now supports AWS CloudFormation for DynamoDB global tables, which means you can enable streaming to an Amazon Kinesis data stream on your DynamoDB global tables with CloudFormation templates. By streaming your DynamoDB data changes to a Kinesis data stream, you can build advanced streaming applications with Amazon Kinesis […]