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AWS – AWS Application Load Balancer announces CloudFront integration with built-in WAF
We are announcing a new one-click integration on Application Load Balancer (ALB) to attach an Amazon CloudFront distribution from the ALB console. This enables the easy use of CF as a distributed single point of entry for your application that ingests, absorbs, and filters all inbound traffic before it reaches your ALB. The features also […]
AWS – AWS IoT Core adds capabilities to enrich MQTT messages and simplify permission management
AWS IoT Core, a managed cloud service that lets you securely connect Internet of Things (IoT) devices to the cloud and manage them at scale, announces two new capabilities – ability to enrich MQTT messages with additional data and use thing-to-connection association for simplifying permission management. Message enrichment capability enables developers to augment MQTT messages […]
AWS – Amazon Data Firehose supports continuous replication of database changes to Apache Iceberg Tables in Amazon S3
Amazon Data Firehose now enables capture and replication of database changes to Apache Iceberg Tables in Amazon S3 (Preview) . This new feature allows customers to easily stream real-time data from MySQL and PostgreSQL databases directly into Apache Iceberg Tables. Firehose is a fully managed, serverless streaming service that enables customers to capture, transform, and […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch launches Observability Solutions for AWS Services and Workloads on AWS
Observability solutions help you get up-and-running faster with infrastructure and application monitoring at AWS. They are intended for developers who need opinionated guidance about the best options for observing AWS services, custom applications, and third-party workloads. Observability solutions include working examples of instrumentation, telemetry collection, custom dashboards, and metric alarms. Using observability solutions, you can […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Advanced
Today, AWS announced Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Advanced, a new set of capabilities on Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall that allow you to monitor and block suspicious DNS traffic associated with advanced DNS threats, such as DNS tunneling and Domain Generation Algorithms (DGAs), that are designed to avoid detection by threat intelligence feeds […]
AWS – Amazon Time Sync Service supports Microsecond-Accurate Time in Stockholm Region
The Amazon Time Sync Service now supports clock synchronization within microseconds of UTC on Amazon EC2 instances in the Europe (Stockholm) region. Built on Amazon’s proven network infrastructure and the AWS Nitro System, customers can now access local, GPS-disciplined reference clocks on supported EC2 instances. These clocks can be used to more easily order application […]
AWS – AWS Organizations member accounts can now regain access to accidentally locked Amazon S3 buckets
AWS Organizations member accounts can now use a simple process through AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to regain access to accidentally locked Amazon S3 buckets. With this capability, you can repair misconfigured S3 bucket policies while improving your organization’s security and compliance posture. IAM now provides centralized management of long-term root credentials, helping you […]
AWS – AWS Transfer Family is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
Customers in AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region can now use AWS Transfer Family. AWS Transfer Family provides fully managed file transfers for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) over Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), FTP over SSL (FTPS) and Applicability Statement 2 (AS2). In […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge event delivery latency metric now in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
The Amazon EventBridge Event Bus end-to-end event delivery latency metric in Amazon CloudWatch that tracks the duration between event ingestion and successful delivery to the targets on your Event Bus is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. This new IngestionToInvocationSuccessLatency allows you to now detect and respond to event […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower launches configurable managed controls implemented using resource control policies
Today we are excited to announce the launch of AWS managed controls implemented using resource control policies (RCPs) in AWS Control Tower. These new optional preventive controls help you centrally apply organization-wide access controls around AWS resources in your organization. Additionally, you can now configure the new RCP and existing service control policies (SCP) preventive […]