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AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports enhanced homogeneous migration capabilities
Today, AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) now makes homogeneous migrations simpler with built-in native database tooling. This launch allows you to seamlessly migrate your on-premises databases to equivalent target databases on AWS, providing easy and performant like-to-like migrations with minimal downtime and zero data loss. In addition, you can now centrally manage and monitor all […]

AWS – AWS CloudFormation StackSets launches APIs to allow programmatic trust access with AWS Organizations
Today, AWS CloudFormation StackSets provides customers with three new APIs to activate, deactivate, and describe AWS Organization trust access needed to get started with service-managed StackSets. You can use service-managed StackSets to centrally manage stack deployments to AWS accounts in one or more organizational units (OUs). With this launch, you can programmatically manage trust access […]

AWS – AWS Trusted Advisor adds new checks for Amazon EFS
AWS Trusted Advisor has launched two checks for Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). AWS Trusted Advisor evaluates your AWS account with automated checks and provides cloud optimization recommendations to reduce costs, improve performance, increase security and fault tolerance, and monitor service quotas. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Config advanced queries support 30 new resource types
AWS Config supports 30 new resource types in advanced queries. The advanced queries feature provides a single query endpoint and a powerful query language to get current resource state metadata without performing service-specific describe API calls. You can use configuration aggregators to run the same queries from a central account across multiple accounts and AWS […]

AWS – AWS Glue for Ray is now generally available
AWS Glue for Ray, a data integration engine option on AWS Glue, is now generally available. AWS Glue for Ray helps data engineers and ETL (extract, transform, and load) developers scale their Python jobs. AWS Glue is a serverless, scalable data integration service used to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources. AWS Glue […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches geospatial heatmap for points on maps
QuickSight authors can now improve readability of points on maps visuals by changing the point style to heatmap. This new way of displaying points on maps, transforms individual points into a heat layer using color gradation, enhancing the readability of densely plotted, overlapping points. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Azure Data Explorer Kusto Emulator on Linux
The Kusto Emulator is now available as a Linux Docker Container! Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS WAF now supports Header Order match statement for request inspection
AWS WAF now supports the Header Order match statement, enabling customers to specify the order in which HTTP headers appear in a request. With this feature, customers can further strengthen their access control measures by verifying additional dimensions of request metadata. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio is now available in West US 2 region
Azure Chaos Studio is now available in West US 2 region. Read More for the details.
GCP – Your guide to sessions, learning paths, and more at Google Cloud Security Summit 2023
Our annual Google Cloud Security Summit is coming next week, and we have an exciting agenda with keynotes, demos, and breakout sessions. This year, we’re featuring two tracks: Frontline Intelligence and Cloud Innovation. When you attend the summit, you will be the first to learn about the latest technologies and strategies that can help protect your business, […]