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GCP – Google Public Sector and Battelle NEON expand data access to advance ecological research
In its mission to enable the exploration and understanding of the ways in which land, life, water and climate interact, the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), one of the largest ecological observation facilities and sensor networks in the world, is working with Google Public Sector to leverage the speed and power of Google Cloud’s artificial […]
GCP – Google Public Sector announces continuity-of-operations offering for government entities under cyberattack
Cyberattacks that target our government are all too common these days. From SolarWinds, to hacks against widely used email servers, to attacks against thedefense industrial base, we know that cyberattacks against the public and private sectors continue to be an issue. Our latest VirusTotal malware trends report illustrates this point as well, with findings that […]
AWS – Amazon S3 request-level information on use of access control lists (ACLs) coming to S3 server access logs and AWS CloudTrail
Amazon S3 server access logs and AWS CloudTrail logs will soon contain information to identify S3 requests that rely upon an access control list (ACL) for authorization to succeed. This feature, which will be activated over the next few weeks, will provide you with information that will simplify the process of adopting the S3 security […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge now supports enhanced filtering capabilities
Amazon EventBridge now supports additional filtering capabilities including the ability to match against characters at the end of a value (suffix filtering), to ignore case sensitivity (equals-ignore-case), and to have a single EventBridge rule match if any conditions across multiple separate fields are true (OR matching). We’re also increasing the bounds supported for numeric values […]
Azure – General availability: Bot Manager Rule Set 1.0 on regional Web Application Firewall
This rule set provides you enhanced protection against bots and provides granular control over bots detected by WAF by categorizing bot traffic as good, bad, or unknown bots. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon File Cache is now available in four additional AWS Regions
Amazon File Cache is now available in four additional AWS regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Europe (Stockholm). Read More for the details.
AWS – The next generation of Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems is now available in four additional AWS Regions
The next generation of Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems is now available in four additional AWS regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Europe (Stockholm). Read More for the details.
AWS – Catalog API now supports Tag-Based Authorization of resources
Catalog API now supports tag-based authorization of resources. As a seller or a private marketplace administrator, you can now exercise IAM policy-based control over resources such as Entities and ChangeSets by tagging them and allowing/disallowing actions based on those tags. You can either add tags on resources when you create them using the StartChangeSet API action […]
AWS – AWS re:Post launches a community leaderboard
AWS re:Post is a cloud knowledge service designed to help AWS customers remove technical roadblocks, accelerate innovation, and operate efficiently. re:Post introduces a community leaderboard to recognize top contributors and give re:Post users visibility into the points they have earned and how their contributions rank within and across the community. The leaderboard cultivates a knowledge-sharing […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Object Lambda is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) AWS Region
Amazon S3 Object Lambda is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) AWS Region. With S3 Object Lambda, you can add your own code to S3 GET, HEAD, and LIST requests to modify and process data as it is returned to an application. You can use custom code to modify the data returned by S3 […]