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GCP – A guide to dual-region storage in Google Cloud Storage, now available in Frankfurt, London, Zurich and Belgium
In today’s digital landscape, data reliability, availability, and performance are paramount. Businesses and organizations rely on cloud storage solutions that not only ensure that data is safe, but that also provide uninterrupted access and low latency. Cloud Storage is a robust solution to these challenges, offering three distinct types of bucket location types, each with […]
GCP – PEAKLIGHT: Decoding the Stealthy Memory-Only Malware
Written by: Aaron Lee, Praveeth DSouza TL;DR Mandiant identified a new memory-only dropper using a complex, multi-stage infection process. This memory-only dropper decrypts and executes a PowerShell-based downloader. This PowerShell-based downloader is being tracked as PEAKLIGHT. Overview Mandiant Managed Defense identified a memory-only dropper and downloader delivering malware-as-a-service infostealers. During our investigation, Mandiant observed the […]
GCP – The ChromeOS Difference for Corporate Resilience
ChromeOS was designed with security at the forefront. Features like verified boot, sandboxing, and on-device encryption help ChromeOS users feel confident they are protected from bad actors, even without third party security software. It’s why ChromeOS was recognized as the most secure operating system out of the box, when compared with MacOS and Windows,1 and […]
AWS – AWS Lambda announces support for encryption of filter criteria for event source mappings
AWS Lambda announces support for Amazon Key Management Service (KMS) Customer managed keys (CMK) for filter criteria used with event source mappings (ESMs) to filter records from a queue or stream before sending them to a Lambda function. This capability allows you to encrypt the data included under filter criteria using CMK, giving you fine-grained […]
AWS – AWS Backup adds cross-Region, cross-account copy for SAP HANA on Amazon EC2
AWS Backup now supports cross-Region and cross-account backup for SAP HANA on EC2, enabling customers to copy snapshot backups across Regions and accounts within their AWS Organizations. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. With this launch, AWS Backup customers can more easily […]
AWS – AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location and expansion in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the CSF Telcohub 1 Data Center near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Kuala Lumpur location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock offers select FMs for batch inference at 50% of on-demand inference price
Last year, we introduced support for batch inference in preview, allowing you to process prompts in batch to get responses for model evaluation, experimentation, and offline processing. Beginning today, Amazon Bedrock supports batch inference in general availability in all supported AWS regions for supported models. Use batch inference to run multiple inference requests asynchronously, and […]
AWS – Amazon S3 adds additional context to HTTP 403 Access Denied error messages
Amazon S3 now includes additional context in HTTP 403 Access Denied errors for requests made to resources within the same AWS account. This new context includes the type of policy that denied access, the reason for denial, and information on the AWS IAM user or role that requested access to the resource. This context helps […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge Scheduler now provides higher default service quotas
Amazon EventBridge Scheduler, a serverless scheduler that allows you to create, trigger, and manage millions of scheduled events and tasks, now has higher default service quotas. The default service quota for number of schedules is now 10 million schedules instead of 1 million in all regions, and the invocation throughput quota is now 1000 invocations […]
GCP – Introducing delayed destruction for Secret Manager, a new way to protect your secrets
Secret Manager is a fully-managed, scalable service for storing, operating, auditing and accessing secrets used across Google Cloud services including GKE and Compute Engine. A critical part of any secrets management strategy is managing deletion and destruction of secrets. To provide customers with advanced capabilities in this area, we are pleased to announce the general […]