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AWS – Amazon CloudFront no longer charges for requests blocked by AWS WAF
Effective October 25, 2024, all CloudFront requests blocked by AWS WAF are free of charge. With this change, CloudFront customers will never incur request fees or data transfer charges for requests blocked by AWS WAF. This update requires no changes to your applications and applies to all CloudFront distributions using AWS WAF. AWS WAF will […]
AWS – Amazon DataZone Achieves HITRUST Certification
Amazon DataZone has achieved HITRUST certification, demonstrating it meets the requirements established by the Health Information Trust Alliance Common Security Framework (HITRUST CSF) for managing sensitive health data, as required by healthcare and life sciences customers. This certification includes the testing of over 600 controls derived from multiple security frameworks such as ISO 27001 and […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Multi-AZ is generally available for RA3 clusters in 3 additional AWS regions
Amazon Redshift is announcing the general availability of Multi-AZ deployments for RA3 clusters in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Europe (London) and South America (Sao Paulo) AWS regions. Redshift Multi-AZ deployments support running your data warehouse in multiple AWS Availability Zones (AZ) simultaneously and continue operating in unforeseen failure scenarios. A Multi-AZ deployment raises the Amazon […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Access Grants is now available in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region
You can now create Amazon S3 Access Grants in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region. Amazon S3 Access Grants map identities in directories such as Microsoft Entra ID, or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals, to datasets in S3. This helps you manage data permissions at scale by automatically granting S3 access to end […]
AWS – Six new synthetic generative voices for Amazon Polly
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of six highly expressive Amazon Polly generative voices in English, French, Spanish, and German. Amazon Polly is a managed service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk and to build speech-enabled products depending on your business needs. The generative engine […]
AWS – AWS CodeBuild now supports additional compute types for reserved capacity
AWS CodeBuild now supports 18 new compute options for your reserved capacity fleets. You can select up to 96 vCPUs and 192 GB of memory to build and test your software applications on Linux x86, Arm, and Windows platforms. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Access Grants now integrate with Amazon Redshift
Amazon S3 Access Grants now integrate with Amazon Redshift. S3 Access Grants map identities from your Identity Provider (IdP), such as Entra ID and Okta, to datasets stored in Amazon S3, helping you to easily manage data permissions at scale. This integration gives customers the ability to manage S3 permissions for Redshift users, without the […]
GCP – (In)tuned to Takeovers: Abusing Intune Permissions for Lateral Movement and Privilege Escalation in Entra ID Native Environments
Written by: Thibault Van Geluwe de Berlaere, Karl Madden, Corné de Jong The Mandiant Red Team recently supported a client to visualize the possible impact of a compromise by an advanced threat actor. During the assessment, Mandiant moved laterally from the customer’s on-premises environment to their Microsoft Entra ID tenant and obtained privileges to compromise […]
AWS – Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku model now available in Amazon Bedrock
Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku model is now available in Amazon Bedrock. Claude 3.5 Haiku is the next generation of Anthropic’s fastest model, combining rapid response times with improved reasoning capabilities, making it ideal for tasks that require both speed and intelligence. Claude 3.5 Haiku improves across every skill set and surpasses even Claude 3 Opus, […]
AWS – Announcing enhanced support for medical imaging data with lossy compression
Today, HealthImaging launched enhancements that better handle lossy compressed medical imaging data. Some medical images, such as whole slide microscopy, ultrasound, and cardiology, utilize lossy image compression. With this feature launch, HealthImaging better supports lossy encoded data, and helps lower storage costs. The HealthImaging import process encodes most image frames (pixel data) in the High-Throughput […]