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AWS – AWS IAM Identity Center now supports search by permission set name
Today, AWS IAM Identity Center announced support for permission set search, enabling you to filter existing permission sets based on their names. This simplifies managing access to AWS accounts via IAM Identity Center, allowing you to use any substring in the permission set name to quickly lookup a permission set. IAM Identity Center is where […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
Beginning today, customers can use Amazon Bedrock in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) region to easily build and scale generative AI applications using a variety of foundation models (FMs) as well as powerful tools to build generative AI applications. Visit the Amazon Bedrock documentation pages for information about model availability and cross-region inferencing. Amazon Bedrock is […]
AWS – AWS CloudTrail Lake announces enhanced event filtering
AWS enhances event filtering in AWS CloudTrail Lake, a managed data lake that helps you capture, immutably store, access, and analyze your activity logs, as well as AWS Config configuration items. Enhanced event filtering expands upon existing filtering capabilities, giving you even greater control over which CloudTrail events are ingested into your event data stores. […]
AWS – AWS Lambda supports Customer Managed Key (CMK) encryption for Zip function code artifacts
AWS Lambda now supports encryption of Lambda function Zip code artifacts using customer managed keys instead of default AWS owned keys. Using keys that they create, own, and manage can satisfy customer’s organizational security and governance requirements. AWS Lambda is widely adopted for its simple programming model, built-in event triggers, automatic scaling, and fault tolerance. […]
GCP – A new flexible DNS-based approach for accessing the GKE control plane
If you run Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), you know it’s important to secure access to the cluster control plane that handles Kubernetes API requests, so you can prevent unauthorized access while still being able to control the cluster. Previously, GKE provided two primary methods to secure the control plane: authorized networks and disabling public endpoints. […]
GCP – How Verve achieves 37% performance gains with C4 machines and new GKE features
Earlier this year, Google Cloud launched the highly anticipated C4 machine series, built on the latest Intel Xeon Scalable processors (5th Gen Emerald Rapids), setting a new industry-leading performance standard for both Google Compute Engine (GCE) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) customers. C4 VMs deliver exceptional performance improvements and have been designed to handle your […]
GCP – Google Cloud deepens its commitment to security and transparency with expanded CVE program
At Google Cloud, we recognize that helping customers and government agencies keep tabs on vulnerabilities plays a critical role in securing consumers, enterprises, and software vendors. We have seen the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure (CVE) system evolve into an essential part of building trust across the IT ecosystem. CVEs can help users of software and […]
GCP – Dataplex Automatic Discovery makes Cloud Storage data available for Analytics and governance
In today’s data- and AI-driven world, organizations are grappling with an ever-growing volume of structured and unstructured data. This growth makes it increasingly challenging to locate the right data at the right time, and a significant portion of enterprise data remains undiscovered or underutilized — what’s often referred to as “dark data.” In fact, a […]
AWS – Network connections is now discoverable with AWS Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector
Starting today, the AWS Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector supports the discovery of on-premises network connections, allowing you to understand your on-premises dependencies and plan your AWS migration. With the Agentless Collector, one virtual appliance deployed within your on-premises data center can discover and monitor the performance of VMware virtual machines, database metadata and utilization […]
GCP – Flare-On 11 Challenge Solutions
Written by: Nick Harbour The eleventh Flare-On challenge is now over! This year proved to be a tough challenge for the over 5,300 players, with only 275 completing all 10 stages. We had a blast making this contest and are happy to see it continue to be a world-wide phenomenon. Those that finished all stages […]