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GCP – No Place Like Localhost: Unauthenticated Remote Access via Triofox Vulnerability CVE-2025-12480
Written by: Stallone D’Souza, Praveeth DSouza, Bill Glynn, Kevin O’Flynn, Yash Gupta Welcome to the Frontline Bulletin Series Straight from Mandiant Threat Defense, the “Frontline Bulletin” series brings you the latest on the threats we are seeing in the wild right now, equipping our community to understand and respond. Introduction Mandiant Threat Defense has uncovered exploitation […]
GCP – Securing the mission: Google Public Sector’s CMMC Level 2 certification and commitment to national security
Google Public Sector is committed to supporting the critical missions of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) by delivering cutting-edge cloud, AI, and data services securely. Today, we are marking an important milestone in that commitment: we have successfully achieved Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Level 2 certification under the DoD’s CMMC program. This certification, […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances are now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex instances that deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances, are available in the Middle East (UAE) Region. C7i-flex instances provide the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a majority of compute intensive workloads. The new instances are powered […]
AWS – AWS Private CA now supports post-quantum digital certificates
AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) now enables you to create certificate authorities (CAs) and issue certificates that use Module Lattice-based Digital Signature Algorithm (ML-DSA). This feature enables you to begin transitioning your public key infrastructure (PKI) towards post-quantum cryptography, allowing you to put protections in place now to protect the security of your […]
AWS – AWS adds IPv6 support for Amazon S3 Gateway and Interface VPC endpoints
Amazon Web Services (AWS) now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses for AWS PrivateLink Gateway and Interface Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints for Amazon S3. The continued growth of the internet is exhausting available Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses. IPv6 increases the number of available addresses by several orders of magnitude, and customers […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds support for catalog notifications
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now provides real-time notifications for data catalog activities, enabling data teams to stay informed of subscription requests, dataset updates, and access approvals. With this launch, customers receive real-time notifications for catalog events including new dataset publications, metadata changes, and access approvals directly within the SageMaker Unified Studio notification center. This launch […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch agent adds Shared Memory Metrics
Amazon CloudWatch agent now supports collection of shared memory utilization metrics from Linux hosts running on Amazon EC2 or on-premises environments. This new capability enables you to monitor total shared memory usage in CloudWatch, alongside existing memory metrics like free memory, used memory, and cached memory. Enterprise applications such as SAP HANA and Oracle RDBMS […]
AWS – Amazon VPC Lattice now supports custom domain names for resource configurations
Starting today, VPC Lattice allows you to specify a custom domain name for a resource configuration. Resource configurations enable layer-4 access to resources such as databases, clusters, domain names, etc. across VPCs and accounts. With this feature, you can use resource configurations for cluster-based and TLS-based resources. Resource owners can use this feature by specifying a […]
GCP – Easy AI workflow automation: Deploy n8n on Cloud Run
n8n is a powerful yet easy-to-use workflow and automation tool for multi-step AI agents, and many teams want a simple, scalable, and cost-effective way to self-host it. With just a few commands, you can deploy n8n to Cloud Run and have it up and running, ready to supercharge your business with AI workflows that can […]
GCP – AlloyDB accelerates AI with automated vector indexing and embedding
Modern applications store their most valuable data such as product catalogs or user profiles in operational databases. These data stores are excellent for applications that need to handle real-time transactions — and with their support for vector operations, they’ve also become an excellent foundation for modern search or gen AI application serving. AlloyDB AI provides […]