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AWS – Amazon EventBridge Archive and Replay now supports Customer Managed KMS Keys
Amazon EventBridge Archive and Replay now supports AWS Key Management Service (KMS) customer managed keys for encrypting archived events. This expands your encryption options by letting you choose between default AWS owned keys for simpler, automated data protection or customer managed keys to help meet your organization’s specific security and governance requirements. Amazon EventBridge Event […]
GCP – Windows Remote Desktop Protocol: Remote to Rogue
Written by: Rohit Nambiar Executive Summary In October 2024, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) observed a novel phishing campaign targeting European government and military organizations that was attributed to a suspected Russia-nexus espionage actor we track as UNC5837. The campaign employed signed .rdp file attachments to establish Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections from victims’ machines. […]
AWS – Amazon Route 53 adds public authoritative DNS service to AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
The Amazon Route 53 authoritative DNS service for public hosted zones is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. With today’s release, AWS customers and AWS Partners who rely on public DNS for their applications in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions can now take advantage of most of the features they […]
AWS – Announcing new AWS Elemental MediaTailor pricing model with lower VOD ad insertion costs
Today, we are launching two significant updates to AWS Elemental MediaTailor pricing: A new VOD ad insertion usage type priced at a 50% discount to live. The new pricing model aligns better with how streaming providers monetize their content. By pricing VOD ad insertion at 50% of the cost of live workflows, you can expand […]
AWS – Amazon EKS Adds Support for Bottlerocket FIPS AMIs in Managed Node Groups
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now offers Bottlerocket FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) AMIs for EKS managed node groups, helping customers to meet federal compliance requirements while leveraging the security of Bottlerocket and the operational benefits of EKS managed node groups. Bottlerocket is a Linux-based operating system optimized for running containers that follows a […]
AWS – Amazon SES now offers attachments in sending APIs
Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) launched support for adding attachments to emails when sending via SES simple sending v2 APIs. Customers can add attachments such as PDF documents to emails, or include images for rendering inline in email content without requiring image downloads. This makes it easier to send richer email content with the […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server supports new minor version for SQL Server 2019
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server now supports a new minor version for SQL Server 2019 (CU32 – 15.0.4430.1). This minor version includes performance improvements and bug fixes, and is available for SQL Server Developer, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. Review the Microsoft release notes for CU32 for details. We recommend […]
GCP – Accelerate Mainframe Modernization with gen AI from Google Cloud and its partners
Modernizing mainframes has been a long and expensive process for too long. Today, we’re launching new solutions that bring the combined strength of Gemini models, and our partners’ technologies and services to accelerate mainframe modernization. Google Cloud generative AI products for mainframe modernization Google Cloud currently offers three products for mainframe customers looking to reimagine […]
AWS – AWS ParallelCluster 3.13 with support for Ubuntu 24.04 and support for EFA-enabled with Amazon FSx for Lustre
AWS ParallelCluster 3.13 is now generally available. Key features of this release include support for Ubuntu 24.04, an updated Slurm version 24.05.07 and support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA)-enabled Amazon FSx for Lustre filesystems on official ParallelCluster AMIs. You can use EFA with your FSx Lustre filesystems to achieve higher throughput and complete jobs faster, […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune announces 99.99% availability Service Level Agreement
Today, AWS announces an updated service level agreement (SLA) for Amazon Neptune, increasing the Monthly Uptime Percentage for Multi-AZ DB Instance, Multi-AZ DB Cluster, and Multi-AZ Graph from 99.90% to 99.99%. This enhancement reflects AWS’s continued commitment to providing a highly available and reliable graph database service for your mission-critical applications. With this new SLA, […]