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GCP – Cloud WAN under the hood: A closer look at its differentiated networking capabilities
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses are choosing to build their networks alongside various networking and network security vendors on Google Cloud – and it’s not hard to see why. Google cloud has not only partnered with the best of breed service vendors – it has built an ecosystem that allows its customers to plug […]
GCP – Just say no: Build defense in depth with IAM Deny and Org Policies
In today’s cloud landscape, safeguarding your cloud environment requires bolstering your Identity and Access Management (IAM) approach with more than allow policies and the principle of least privilege. To bolster your defenses, we offer a powerful tool: IAM Deny Policies. Relying only on IAM Allow policies leaves room for potential over-permissioning, and can make it […]
GCP – Announcing AI service expansion and CJIS 6.0 readiness for public safety
Google Public Sector is continually engaging with customers, partners, and policymakers to deliver technology capabilities that reflect their needs. When it comes to solutions for public safety and law enforcement, we are deeply committed to providing secure and compliance-focused environments. We’re pleased to announce significant updates, which further strengthen our ability to enable compliance with […]
AWS – AWS WAF announces general availability of Resource-level DDoS protection for Application Load Balancers (ALB)
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced general availability of a new resource-level distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigation capability for Application Load Balancers (ALB). This new WAF DDoS protection is directly integrated with ALB as an on-host agent to detect and mitigates DDoS attacks from known malicious sources within seconds while maintaining service quality for […]
AWS – AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now available in Middle East (UAE) region
We are excited to announce the general availability of AWS Elastic Beanstalk in the Middle East (UAE) region. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that simplifies application deployment and management on AWS. The service automatically handles deployment, capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring, allowing developers to focus on writing code. For a […]
AWS – Amazon Cognito introduces AWS WAF support for Managed Login
Amazon Cognito introduces AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) support in Cognito Managed Login. This new capability allows customers to protect their Managed Login endpoints configured in Cognito user pools from unwanted or malicious requests and web-based attacks. Managed Login, a fully-managed, hosted sign-in and sign-up experience that customers can personalize to align with their […]
AWS – AWS Backup now supports copying Amazon S3 backups across Regions and accounts in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Backup adds support to copy your Amazon S3 backups across AWS Regions and accounts in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With Amazon S3 backup copies in multiple AWS Regions, you can maintain separate, protected copies of your backup data to help meet compliance requirements for data protection and disaster recovery. Amazon S3 backup copies […]
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Personal now supports PrivateLink for streaming traffic
Amazon WorkSpaces Personal now allows you to route streaming traffic privately between your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and WorkSpaces virtual desktops using AWS PrivateLink, without the data ever traversing the public internet. With this new capability, you can now stream your WorkSpaces through private IP addresses within your VPC, or from on-premises environments using […]
AWS – AWS announces 100G expansion in Jakarta, Indonesia
Today, AWS announced the expansion of 100 Gbps dedicated connections at the AWS Direct Connect location in the NTT Jakarta 2 data center center near Jakarta, Indonesia. You can now establish private, direct network access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones from this location. This […]
AWS – Announcing general availability of managed integrations for AWS IoT Device Management
Today, AWS announced the general availability of managed integrations, a feature of AWS IoT Device Management designed to simplify the control and management of IoT devices across multiple manufacturers and connectivity protocols. Developers can now onboard and manage diverse IoT devices through a single unified interface regardless of connection type – direct, hub-based, or third-party […]