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AWS – Amazon CloudFront launches support for JA4 fingerprinting
Amazon CloudFront now supports JA4 fingerprinting of incoming requests, enabling customers to allow known clients or block requests from malicious clients. The JA4 fingerprint is passed via the Cloudfront-viewer-ja4-fingerprint header. You can inspect the JA4 fingerprints using custom logic on your application web servers or using CloudFront Functions or Lambda@Edge. A JA4 TLS client fingerprint […]
AWS – Cross-zone enabled Network Load Balancer now supports zonal shift and zonal autoshift
AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) now supports Amazon Application Recovery Controller’s zonal shift and zonal autoshift features on load balancers that are enabled across zones. Zonal shift allows you to quickly shift traffic away from an impaired Availability Zone (AZ) and recover from events such as bad application deployment and gray failures. Zonal autoshift safely […]
AWS – AWS Resource Explorer introduces new API to list resource inventory
AWS Resource Explorer customers can now list all AWS resources indexed by Resource Explorer across Services, AWS Regions, and AWS accounts. Customers use Resource Explorer to search for supported AWS resources using keywords and search operators to return up to 1,000 relevancy-ranked results. Starting today, customers can use the same familiar search operators to list […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens dashboards now support additional customization capabilities
Amazon Connect Contact Lens dashboards now include the ability to color code metric performance, customize service level thresholds, and switch metrics within widgets. With these dashboards, you can view and compare real-time and historical aggregated performance, trends, and insights using custom-defined time periods (e.g., week over week), summary charts, time-series chart, etc. You can further […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaPackage now available in Middle East (UAE) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) regions
AWS Elemental MediaPackage is now available in the Middle East (UAE) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) regions, enabling users to configure and operate MediaPackage using the console or API endpoints in these regions. AWS Elemental MediaPackage is a video origination and just-in-time packaging service that allows video distributors to securely and reliably deliver live streaming or […]
AWS – AWS Backup is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia)
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. AWS Backup is a fully-managed, policy-driven service that allows you to centrally automate data protection across multiple AWS services spanning compute, storage, and databases. Using AWS Backup, you can centrally create and manage backups of your application data, protect your […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift announces generally availability for data sharing with data lake tables
Amazon Redshift’s Data Sharing of data lake tables is now generally available, offering a secure and convenient way to share live data lake tables across different Amazon Redshift warehouses. Data Sharing of data lake tables in the AWS Glue Data Catalog provides live access to the data, ensuring that you always see the most up-to-date […]
GCP – BigQuery tables for Apache Iceberg: optimized storage for the open lakehouse
For several years, BigQuery native tables have supported enterprise-level data management capabilities such as ACID transactions, streaming ingestion, and automatic storage optimizations. Many BigQuery customers store data in data lakes using open-source file formats such as Apache Parquet and table formats such as Apache Iceberg. In 2022, we launched BigLake tables to allow customers to […]
GCP – How Google Cloud supports telecom security and compliance
Operating a telecommunications network is more than just connecting phone calls, or helping people share funny videos online. Telecom networks are critical components of our society’s infrastructure. Telecom operators face a wide array of risks to the critical communication services they provide and the sensitive data they protect, from network outages, to criminally-motivated ransomware attacks, […]
GCP – GKE and the dreaded IP_SPACE_EXHAUSTED error: Understanding the culprit
If you leverage Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) within your Google Cloud environment, you’ve likely encountered the confidence-shattering “IP_SPACE_EXHAUSTED” error. It’s a common scenario: you’re convinced your IP address planning is flawless, your subnet design is future-proof, and then suddenly, your GKE cluster unexpectedly hits a scaling roadblock. You start to question your subnetting skills. How […]