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AWS – AWS Firewall Manager improves auditing capabilities for Security Groups
Starting today, AWS Firewall Manager improves auditing capabilities for Security Groups by identifying excessively permissive rules that permit traffic from all IP ranges. With this enhancement, customers can detect and remediate 0.0.0.0/0 and ::/0 CIDRs in a Security Group using the Security Group Content Audit policy. Previously, AWS Firewall Manager provided customers with an option […]
AWS – App Runner adds support for Bitbucket source code repository
AWS App Runner adds support to deploy services directly from source code stored in Bitbucket repository. App Runner makes it easier for developers to quickly deploy web applications and APIs to the cloud, at scale, and without having to manage infrastructure. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Outposts rack now supports intra-VPC communication across multiple Outposts
You can now add routes in your AWS Outposts rack subnet route table to forward traffic between subnets within the same VPC spanning across disparate Outposts, using the Outpost local gateways (LGW). The LGW enables connectivity between your Outpost subnets and your on-premises network. With this enhancement, you can establish intra-VPC instance-to-instance IP communication across […]
AWS – AWS Amplify supports time-based one-time password for MFA on Android, Swift, Flutter
We’re excited to announce that Android, Swift, and Flutter libraries now support Time-Based One-time Passwords (TOTP) as a multi-factor authentication (MFA) method. This feature enables developers to provide their users with a secure option for validating a user’s identity after they provide their username and password. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect launches new bulk editing features for users
Amazon Connect launches new features that improve the user bulk editing experience. With this launch, you can now update multiple user records simultaneously on the Amazon Connect admin website in less than half the time it used to take to make bulk updates. These time savings can make a difference, for example in a crisis […]
Azure – Generally Available: Trusted launch as default for VMs deployed through the Azure portal
Trusted launch is now enabled by default for VMS deployed through the Azure portal, enhancing the foundational security of these VMs. Read More for the details.
AWS – Now deploy Gateway Load Balancer Endpoint between virtual private gateway and subnets in Amazon VPC
You can now route any IPv4 and IPv6 traffic entering your Amazon VPC from virtual private gateway through a Gateway Load Balancer endpoint before the traffic reaches the destination. You can use Gateway Load Balancer Endpoint to process your VPC traffic through AWS Network Firewall or other security appliances available on AWS Market Place. Read […]
AWS – AWS Clean Rooms launches new capabilities for increased configurability
Today, AWS Clean Rooms announces two new capabilities: the general availability of configurable analysis results setting and the preview of Apache Iceberg support. These launches give customers more flexibility to configure AWS Clean Rooms collaborations with their preferred result recipient and data format. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink
Today, AWS is renaming Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. With Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, you can transform and analyze streaming data in real time with Apache Flink, an open-source framework and engine for processing data streams. The name change is effective in the AWS Management Console, documentation, […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle supports time zone auto-upgrade for Single-tenant instances
Starting today, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle supports the auto-upgrade of Oracle time zone files for DB instances on the multitenant container database (CDB) architecture running in single-tenant configuration. The Oracle time zone file auto-upgrade feature provides an automated way to upgrade the daylight savings time (DST) time zone file version in […]
