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AWS – Amazon Location Service achieves FedRAMP High authorization
Amazon Location Service is a FedRAMP High authorized service in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Federal agencies, public sector organizations and other enterprises with FedRAMP High compliance requirements can now leverage Amazon Location Service in their applications. Amazon Location Service is a location-based service that helps developers easily and securely add maps, search places and […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now provides published forecast data in analytics data lake
Amazon Connect now provides published forecast (short-term and long-term) data in the analytics data lake, making it easier for you to generate reports and insights from this data. With published forecast data in data lake, you can build dashboards that compare forecasts against actuals or view this data in conjunction with other data sets such […]
AWS – AWS India customers can now setup automated recurring payments on their cards
AWS India customers can now set up automated recurring payments to pay their monthly AWS invoices, through e-mandates on their debit and credit cards. As per Reserve Bank of India (RBI) guidelines, e-mandates allow customers to schedule automatic payments using saved cards. The automated recurring payments will streamline the bill payment process for customers. Once […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 R7gd instances now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Hong Kong), Middle East (UAE), and AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions. R7gd are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors with DDR5 memory are built on the AWS Nitro System. […]
GCP – Unity Ads uses Memorystore to power up to 10 million operations per second
Editor’s note: Unity Ads, a mobile advertising platform, previously relying on its own self-managed Redis infrastructure, was searching for a solution that scales better for various use cases and reduces maintenance overhead. Unity migrated their workloads to Memorystore for Redis Cluster, a fully managed service designed for high-performance workloads. Their infrastructure now handles up to […]
GCP – Hybrid Russian Espionage and Influence Campaign Aims to Compromise Ukrainian Military Recruits and Deliver Anti-Mobilization Narratives
In September 2024, Google Threat Intelligence Group (consisting of Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Mandiant) discovered UNC5812, a suspected Russian hybrid espionage and influence operation, delivering Windows and Android malware using a Telegram persona named “Civil Defense”. “Civil Defense” claims to be a provider of free software programs designed to enable potential conscripts to […]
GCP – AI Hypercomputer software updates: Faster training and inference, a new resource hub, and more
The potential of AI has never been greater, and infrastructure plays a foundational role in driving it forward. AI Hypercomputer is our supercomputing architecture based on performance-optimized hardware, open software, and flexible consumption models. Together, these offer exceptional performance and efficiency, resiliency at scale, and give you the flexibility to choose offerings at each layer […]
AWS – AWS Firewall Manager now supports retrofitting of existing AWS WAF WebACLs
Starting today, AWS Firewall Manager enables customers to centrally create policies for AWS WAF that add baseline rule sets to existing WAF WebACLs associated with their resources. Security administrators can now use Firewall Manager policies for WAF to insert first and last rule groups or centrally configure a logging destination for existing WebACLs while leaving […]
AWS – AWS Storage Gateway is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
AWS Storage Gateway expands availability to the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region enabling customers to deploy and manage hybrid cloud storage for their on-premises workloads. AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that provides on-premises applications access to virtually unlimited storage in the cloud. You can use AWS Storage Gateway for backing up […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora Global Database support for tagging global clusters
Amazon Aurora Global Database now supports applying tags to your global clusters, enabling you to associate metadata information with your overall Global Database cluster. For instance, you can apply a tag to organize resource costs for your entire Global Database cluster, making it easier to categorize and track your AWS costs. Aurora Global Database allows […]