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AWS – Amazon Kendra GenAI Index now available in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions
Amazon Kendra is an AI-powered search service enabling organizations to build intelligent search experiences and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems to power generative AI applications. Starting today, AWS customers in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions can use the GenAI Index for RAG and intelligent search. With the Kendra GenAI Index, customers get high […]
AWS – AWS IAM Identity Center is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) AWS Region
You can now deploy AWS IAM Identity Center in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) AWS Region. With the addition of this AWS Region, IAM Identity Center is now available in 34 AWS Regions globally. IAM Identity Center is the recommended service for managing workforce access to AWS applications and multiple AWS accounts. Use IAM Identity Center […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaLive Anywhere now supports SMPTE 2110 inputs
AWS Elemental MediaLive Anywhere now supports SMPTE ST 2110 professional broadcast input standards on your own hardware. With this new capability, you can ingest professional IP-based video, audio, and metadata streams directly into MediaLive Anywhere nodes running on your own infrastructure, while maintaining centralized control using the AWS Management Console. SMPTE 2110 support, which requires […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports Innovation Release 11.8 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB Innovation Release 11.8 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the latest Innovation Release on Amazon RDS for MariaDB. You can deploy MariaDB 11.8 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database, making it simpler to […]
GCP – Suspected China-Nexus Threat Actor Actively Exploiting Critical Ivanti Connect Secure Vulnerability (CVE-2025-22457)
Written by: John Wolfram, Michael Edie, Jacob Thompson, Matt Lin, Josh Murchie On Thursday, April 3, 2025, Ivanti disclosed a critical security vulnerability, CVE-2025-22457, impacting Ivanti Connect Secure (“ICS”) VPN appliances version 22.7R2.5 and earlier. CVE-2025-22457 is a buffer overflow vulnerability, and successful exploitation would result in remote code execution. Mandiant and Ivanti have identified […]
AWS – Monitor service dependencies with Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals SLOs
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now supports creating Service Level Objectives (SLOs) using metrics from your service dependencies. You can now monitor the performance of your services’ dependencies, and proactively resolve problems through SLO goal setting, thanks to this new ability. Using Application Signals you can create period-based or request-based SLOs that track key metrics like […]
AWS – Amazon Security Lake achieves FedRamp High and Moderate authorization
Amazon Security Lake has achieved FedRAMP High authorization in AWS GovCloud (US) Region and FedRAMP Moderate in the US East and US West Regions. If you’re a federal agency, public sector organization, or enterprise with FedRAMP compliance requirements, you can now centralize your security data using Amazon Security Lake. Amazon Security Lake automatically centralizes security […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Logs increases maximum log event size to 1 MB
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports log events up to 1 MB in size, a 4x increase from the previous 256 KB limit. This enhancement applies to the CloudWatch Logs PutLogEvents API and OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) endpoint. Customers can now capture richer log data while maintaining data integrity, eliminating the need to truncate large events or […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Proxy is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. RDS Proxy is a fully managed and a highly available database proxy for RDS and Amazon Aurora databases. RDS Proxy helps improve application scalability, resiliency, and security. Many applications, including those built on modern architectures capable […]
AWS – AWS Clean Rooms Spark SQL now supports aggregation and list analysis rules
With today’s launch, AWS Clean Rooms provides additional privacy-enhancing controls to support aggregation and list analysis rules using the Spark analytics engine. Using AWS Clean Rooms Spark SQL, you and your partners can now manage how your data is used with aggregation, list, and custom analysis rules, running SQL queries with configurable resources based on […]