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GCP – Providing our EU Education customers’ with data transfer protections to support privacy assessments
Recently, Datatilsynet (the Danish Data Protection Authority) issued a ruling emphasizing the importance of conducting proper due diligence before implementing cloud services. We agree due diligence is an important step for customers since privacy assessments and outcomes can vary significantly based on the way customers have configured their system. Although this ruling is limited to […]
AWS – AWS Backup Audit Manager adds support for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
AWS Backup Audit Manager now allows you to audit and report on the compliance of your data protection policies for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Using AWS Backup Audit Manager, you can now continuously evaluate the data protection activity of your Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP resources and generate audit reports that can help you demonstrate compliance […]
AWS – Combined OU and Accounts page now available in AWS Control Tower
We are excited to announce the new Organization page in AWS Control Tower with a hierarchical view of all Organizational units (OUs) and accounts. Customers now have the ability to view, group, and manage their entire organizational structure through a single page. Read More for the details.
GCP – SAP backup, the blended way
An SAP architect designing a backup solution is faced with questions towards the business (what needs to be done) and delivery (how it can be accomplished). This blog gives an overview of the challenges, available options, their advantages and disadvantages. As a conclusion, a blended backup concept will be proposed that uses cloud technology to […]
GCP – Google supports CSRB call for open source security improvements in wake of log4j report
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently announced the results of the first report from the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) on the log4j software library vulnerabilities discovered in late 2021. Google welcomed the opportunity to participate in the development of the CSRB report and share our own experiences responding to this and other […]
AWS – Amazon Interactive Video Service now includes web broadcast SDK
Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) web broadcast SDK gives you the ability to capture live video from web browsers and send as an input to an Amazon IVS channel. You can include it on new and existing websites, with support for both desktop and mobile web browsers. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Fraud Detector launches Account Takeover Insights (ATI)
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Fraud Detector (AFD) now supports Account Takeover Insights (ATI) model, a low-latency fraud detection machine learning (ML) model specifically designed to detect accounts that have been compromised through stolen credentials, phishing, social engineering, or other forms of account takeover. The ATI model is designed to detect up […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C6i, M6i and R6i Instances are now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6i, M6i and R6i instances are available in the Europe (Stockholm, Milan), and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong). Additionally, the Amazon EC2 C6i and M6i instances are now available in Middle East (Bahrain) and R6i instance is now available in Europe (Frankfurt). These instances are powered by 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Performance Insights now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Performance Insights is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Amazon RDS Performance Insights is a database performance tuning and monitoring feature of RDS and Aurora that helps you quickly assess the load on your database and determine when and where to take action. Read More for the […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall now supports VPC prefix lists
AWS Network Firewall now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) prefix lists to simplify management of your firewall rules and policies across your VPCs. Prefix lists enable you to group one or more CIDR blocks into a single object. You can group IP addresses that you frequently use in a prefix list, and reference this […]