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AWS – Amazon CloudFront launches TLS security policy with post-quantum support
Amazon CloudFront announces support for hybrid post-quantum key establishment across all existing Transport Layer Security (TLS) security policies, providing enhanced protection against future quantum computing threats for client-to-edge connections. Additionally, CloudFront launched a new TLS 1.3 only security policy that enhances TLS options between viewers and edge locations. These updates allow customers to leverage quantum-resistant […]
AWS – Enhancing threat detection with Amazon GuardDuty new custom entity lists
Today, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon GuardDuty custom threat detection using entity lists. This new feature enhances threat detection capabilities in GuardDuty by extending support to incorporate your own domain-based threat intelligence into the service beyond originally supported custom IP list. You can now detect threats in GuardDuty using malicious domains or IP […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Proxy now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses to pool and share database connections coming from an application. The existing endpoints supporting Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) will remain available for backwards compatibility. Additionally, customers now have the option to specify RDS Proxy target […]
GCP – Tata Steel enhances equipment and operations monitoring with the Manufacturing Data Engine
Tata Steel is one of the world’s largest steel producers, with an annual crude steel capacity exceeding 35 millions tons. With such a large and global output, we needed a way to improve asset availability, product quality, operational safety, and environmental monitoring. By centralizing data from diverse sources and implementing advanced analytics with Google Cloud, […]
GCP – Calling all devs: Join the GKE Turns 10 Hackathon and build with agentic AI
For ten years, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) has been at the forefront of innovation, powering everything from microservices to cloud-native AI and edge computing. To honor this special birthday, we’re challenging you to catapult your microservices into the future with cutting-edge agentic AI. Are you ready to celebrate? Build AI Agents on GKE in the […]
GCP – Save more with expanded coverage for Compute Flex CUDs
We’re excited to announce an expansion to our Compute Flexible Committed Use Discounts (Flex CUDs), providing you with greater flexibility across your cloud environment. Your spend commitments now stretch further and cover a wider array of Google Cloud services and VM families, translating into greater savings for your workloads. Flex CUDs are spend-based commitments that […]
GCP – Investigate fast with AI: Gemini Cloud Assist for Dataproc & Serverless for Apache Spark
Apache Spark is a fundamental part of most modern lakehouse architectures, and Google Cloud’s Dataproc provides a powerful, fully managed platform for running Spark applications. However, for data engineers and scientists, debugging failures and performance bottlenecks in distributed systems remains a universal challenge. Manually troubleshooting a Spark job requires piecing together clues from disparate sources […]
AWS – AWS Config now supports resource tags for IAM Policies
AWS Config now tracks resource tags for IAM policy resource types, enhancing the granularity of metadata you can capture to assess, audit, and evaluate configurations of your IAM policies. With this enhancement, you can now track resource tags and their changes for IAM Policies directly in your Config recorder. This capability allows you to scope […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database now supports PostgreSQL 16.9
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is now available with PostgreSQL version 16.9 compatibility. This release contains product improvements and bug fixes made by the PostgreSQL community, along with Aurora Limitless-specific additions such as support for the hstore extension, the auto_explain extension, and various performance improvements. The hstore extension allows for storing sets of key/value pairs within […]
AWS – Announcing general availability of Organizational Notification Configurations for AWS User Notifications
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Organizational Notification Configurations for AWS User Notifications. This launch allows AWS Organizations users to centrally configure and view notifications across their organization. You can use the Management Account or Delegated Administrators (DAs) to configure and view notifications about accounts included in specific organizational units (OUs) or all accounts […]