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AWS – Amazon EC2 X2iedn instances now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) region
Starting today, memory optimized Amazon EC2 X2iedn instances are available in Asia-Pacific(Osaka) region. X2iedn instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and delivers improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous generation X1e instances. X2iedn instances have a memory to vCPU ratio of 32:1 and are […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Grafana now supports network access control
Amazon Managed Grafana now supports inbound network access control that helps you to restrict user access to your Grafana workspaces. Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service for Grafana, a popular open-source analytics platform that enables you to query, visualize, and alert on your metrics, logs, and traces. With this launch, you have granular […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for Amazon DynamoDB now supports AWS CloudFormation for Global Tables
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for Amazon DynamoDB now supports AWS CloudFormation for DynamoDB global tables, which means you can enable streaming to an Amazon Kinesis data stream on your DynamoDB global tables with CloudFormation templates. By streaming your DynamoDB data changes to a Kinesis data stream, you can build advanced streaming applications with Amazon Kinesis […]
AWS – Amazon Cognito identity pool data events are now available in AWS CloudTrail
Amazon Cognito identity pools now publishes data events to AWS CloudTrail logs. Customers now have greater visibility into access-related activities for both guest and authenticated users of their applications. Administrators can now configure Amazon CloudWatch Alarms to monitor specific activity on Amazon Cognito identity pools and react based on automated workflows. Customers can record data […]
AWS – Amazon Pinpoint now supports SMS and voice spending metrics in Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon Pinpoint now helps customers determine the amount spent for SMS and voice activity during the current month by providing visibility to SMS and voice spend metrics through the Amazon CloudWatch console. Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service for AWS cloud resources that you can use to collect and track metrics, collect and monitor log […]
AWS – AWS WAF Captcha adds support for ten additional languages
AWS WAF Captcha helps block unwanted bot traffic by requiring users to successfully complete challenges before their web requests are allowed to reach AWS WAF-protected resources. WAF Captcha challenges are simple for humans while remaining effective against bots. Starting today, AWS WAF Captcha is adding ten additional languages – Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, […]
AWS – AWS WAF Fraud Control – Account Takeover Protection now allows inspection of origin responses
AWS WAF Fraud Control – Account Takeover Protection (ATP) can now inspect origin responses, giving customers additional protection against brute force and credential stuffing attacks on their login pages. Until today, ATP rules were limited to inspecting incoming login requests against a stolen credentials database, analyzing requests seen over time for username and password traversals, […]
GCP – Confidential GKE Nodes are now available on Compute Optimized C2D VMs
Today, we are happy to announce that Confidential GKE Nodes are available on compute optimized C2D VMs. Many companies have adopted Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) as a key component in their application infrastructure. In some cases, the advantages of using containers and Kubernetes can surpass those of traditional architectures, but migrating to and operating apps […]
GCP – Better troubleshooting with a new Cloud Logging plugin for Grafana
Logs are a critical resource during the troubleshooting process no matter where the troubleshooting journey starts. One advantage of Google Cloud Logging is support for open source solutions through the ecosystem. For example, Cloud Logging integrates with 3rd party products through the Logs Router making it easy to get your logs wherever you need them. […]
GCP – Building your own private knowledge graph on Google Cloud
A Knowledge Graph ingests data from multiple sources, extracts entities (e.g., people, organizations, places, or things), and establishes relationships among the entities (e.g., owner of, related to) with the help of common attributes such as surnames, addresses, and IDs. Entities form the nodes in the graph and the relationships are the edges or connections. This […]