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AWS – Announcing Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager
Today, AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager, a new capability that enables customers to monitor, analyze, and manage EC2 capacity across all of their accounts and regions. This new capability simplifies resource management using a single interface. EC2 Capacity Manager offers customers a comprehensive view of On-Demand, Spot, and Capacity […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Graviton4 based (c8g,m8g,r8g and r8gd) instances
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports latest generation Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 instance families. These new instance types are compute optimized (C8g), general purpose (M8g), and memory optimized (R8g, R8gd) instances. AWS Graviton4 processors provide up to 30% better performance than AWS Graviton3 processors with c8g, m8g and r8g & r8gd offering the best price performance for […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager launches security updates notification for Windows
AWS Systems Manager announces the launch of security updates notification for Windows patching compliance, which helps customers identify security updates that are available but not approved by their patch baseline configuration. This feature introduces a new patch state called “AvailableSecurityUpdate” that reports security patches of all severity levels that are available to install on Windows […]
AWS – Customer managed KMS keys now available for Automated Reasoning checks
AWS announces support for customer managed AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys in Automated Reasoning checks in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. This enhancement enables you to use your own encryption keys to protect policy content and tests, giving you full control over key management. Automated Reasoning checks in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails is the first and only […]
AWS – AWS Marketplace now supports purchase order line numbers
AWS Marketplace now supports purchase order line numbers for AWS Marketplace purchases, simplifying cost-allocation and payment processing. This launch makes it easier for customers to process and pay invoices. AWS purchase order support allows customers to provide purchase orders per transaction, which reflect on invoices related to that purchase. Now, customers can associate transaction charges […]
AWS – Amazon Timestream now supports InfluxDB 3
Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now offers support for InfluxDB 3. Now application developers and DevOps teams can run InfluxDB 3 databases as a managed service. InfluxDB 3 uses a new architecture for the InfluxDB database engine, built on Apache Arrow for in-memory data processing, Apache DataFusion for query execution, and columnar Parquet storage format with […]
GCP – Announcing prompt management in the Vertex AI SDK
As generative AI applications grow in sophistication, development workflows become more fragmented. Although AI can be a force multiplier, teams may design prompts in one environment, manage versions in spreadsheets or text files, and then manually integrate them into their code. This leads to inefficiencies, versioning chaos, and collaboration bottlenecks. Vertex AI Studio is designed […]
AWS – Amazon Location Service Introduces New Map Styling Features for Enhanced Customization
Today, AWS announced enhanced map styling features for Amazon Location Service, enabling users to further customize maps with terrain visualization, contour lines, real-time traffic data, and transportation-specific routing information. Developers can create more detailed and informative maps tailored for various use cases, such as outdoor navigation, logistics planning, and traffic management, by leveraging parameters like […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 now supports CPU options optimization for license-included instances
Amazon EC2 now allows customers to modify an instance’s CPU options to optimize the licensing costs of Microsoft Windows license-included workloads. You can now customize the number of vCPUs and/or disable hyperthreading on Windows Server and SQL Server license-included instances to save on vCPU-based licensing costs. This enhancement is particularly valuable for database workloads like […]
GCP – New Group on the Block: UNC5142 Leverages EtherHiding to Distribute Malware
Written by: Mark Magee, Jose Hernandez, Bavi Sadayappan, Jessa Valdez Since late 2023, Mandiant Threat Defense and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) have tracked UNC5142, a financially motivated threat actor that abuses the blockchain to facilitate the distribution of information stealers (infostealers). UNC5142 is characterized by its use of compromised WordPress websites and “EtherHiding“, a […]