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AWS – AWS Amplify Hosting is generally available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) region
AWS Amplify offers a fully managed web hosting service that accelerates your application release cycle by providing a CI/CD workflow for building and deploying web applications. Simply connect your application’s code repository in the console, and changes to your frontend and backend are deployed in a single workflow on every code commit. Read More for […]

AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector now supports CloudFormation
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector, a fully-managed agentless collector for Prometheus metrics from Amazon EKS workloads, now supports AWS CloudFormation. Starting today, you can easily create, configure, and manage Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collectors using CloudFormation templates. With AWS CloudFormation, you can use a programming language or simple text file to automatically configure […]

AWS – AWS B2B Data Interchange supports additional finance, transportation, supply chain X12 transactions
AWS B2B Data Interchange now supports an expanded set of X12 transaction sets for finance, transportation, and supply chain use cases. These transaction sets add to the service’s existing support for dozens of other X12 transactions and extend the benefits of B2B Data Interchange’s fully automated, event-driven EDI transformation capabilities to new industry use cases. […]

AWS – Tax dashboard now generally available for AWS Marketplace Sellers
Today, AWS Marketplace announces the general availability of the tax dashboard for AWS Marketplace Sellers. The tax dashboard can be accessed in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP) under the Insights > Finance operations tab. Previously, AWS Marketplace Sellers could only access taxation data through the legacy customer subscriber CSV report, or programmatically by Commerce […]

AWS – AWS Wickr is now available in additional AWS Asia Pacific Regions
AWS Wickr now allows you to establish a network in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions to help you meet data residency requirements, and other obligations. Read More for the details.

GCP – Dev Connect at Next ‘24: Master AI on Google Cloud with Firebase, Kaggle, Android, and more
Calling all the Firebase fanatics, Android experts, Flutter enthusiasts, Kaggle competitors, machine learning wizards, and anyone deeply involved with open-source Google AI projects! We’re excited to unveil Dev Connect, a new experience built to help you harness the power of Google Cloud and build bridges between developer communities at Google Cloud Next ‘24. Designed for […]

GCP – Navigating the cross-cloud network: 12 must-attend networking and network security sessions at Next ‘24
Next ’24 returns to Las Vegas, April 9 -11 and promises to be larger and offer an even greater level of technical depth than ever before. Whether you’re a network engineer, network security professional, infrastructure/platform engineer, you can expect to find in-depth network and network security design sessions from our architects and experts. If your […]

GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Get ready for Next ‘24: What you need to know
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for March 2024. Today, Brian Roddy, vice president of security product management, Google Cloud, talks about some of the important cybersecurity hot topics that will be driving our announcements at Google Cloud Next in April. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted […]

GCP – SeeSeeYouExec: Windows Session Hijacking via CcmExec
Written by: Andrew Oliveau Over the last several years, the security community has witnessed an uptick in System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)-related attacks. From extracting network access account (NAA) credentials to deploying malicious applications to targeted devices, SCCM attacks have aided in accomplishing complex objectives and evading existing detections. Mandiant’s Red Team has utilized […]
GCP – Life After Death? IO Campaigns Linked to Notorious Russian Businessman Prigozhin Persist After His Political Downfall and Death
Written by: Alden Wahlstrom, David Mainor, Daniel Kapellmann Zafra In June 2023, Russian businessman Yevgeniy Prigozhin and his private military company (PMC) “Wagner” carried out an armed mutiny within Russia. The events triggered the meteoric political downfall of Prigozhin, raising questions about the future of his various enterprises that were only underscored when he […]