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GCP – Using IPv6 Unique Local Addresses for private connectivity in Google Cloud
Editor’s note: Google Cloud supports a wide range of IPv6 capabilities. For an overview, check out this blog. When people talk about the IPv4 Address exhaustion problem, it’s usually in the context of the public IPv4 space. When IPv6 was introduced, the primary goal was to fix the address exhaustion problem by allocating internet-accessible addresses […]
GCP – How to deploy Tink for BigQuery encryption on-prem and in the cloud
Data security is a key focus for organizations moving their data warehouses from on-premises to cloud-first systems, such as BigQuery. In addition to storage-level encryption, whether using Google-managed or customer-managed keys, BigQuery also provides column-level encryption. Using BigQuery’s SQL AEAD functions, organizations can enforce a more granular level of encryption to help protect sensitive customer […]
GCP – Self-service analytics finally gets real for the Connected Sheet
Today’s workplace is getting more and more data intensive. This is why, even in a modern data stack world full of incredible business intelligence tools, “good ol’ reliable” spreadsheets are still commonly used to wrangle data problems big and small. Data is everywhere, so why aren’t insights? While companies recognize the value data can provide […]
AWS – EC2 Image Builder can now include AWS Marketplace subscriptions in your custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
Now customers can search AWS Marketplace Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) directly in the EC2 Image Builder Console and use those AMIs as base images in their image build workflows. Those AMIs can be accessed and used via the EC2 Image Builder Console, CLI, API, CloudFormation and CDK interfaces. This feature makes it easier for you […]
AWS – EC2 Image Builder adds Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks for security hardening of Amazon Machine Images
Now customers can use EC2 Image Builder to create custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that are hardened using Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks. EC2 Image Builder hosts CIS Benchmarks Level 1 for Amazon Linux 2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, Microsoft Windows Server 2019, and Microsoft Windows Server 2022. You no longer have […]
AWS – Amazon Corretto January, 2023 Quarterly Updates
On January 17, 2023 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 19.0.2, 17.0.6, 11.0.18, 8u362 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Read More for the details.
AWS – EC2 network performance metrics add support for ConnTrack Utilization metric
Amazon EC2 network performance metrics now supports a new metric to monitor available EC2 instance tracked connections, the ConnTrack Utilization metric. EC2 instance Security Groups act as stateful virtual firewalls to control incoming and outgoing traffic. These stateful firewalls track network connection information to enable return traffic to and from an instance to pass through. […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall announces IPv6 support
AWS Network Firewall now supports IPv6 for dual stack subnets so you can filter IPv4 and IPv6 traffic flows to and from the public internet, on-premises network, or any endpoint in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Now, you can use AWS Network Firewall to protect your IPv6 workloads on AWS. Read More for the […]
AWS – Amazon EFS Supports 1,000 Access Points per File System
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) has increased the maximum number of Access Points per file system from 120 to 1,000, enabling you to control file system access permissions across a larger number of applications in multi-tenant environments. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch announces enhanced error visibility for Embedded Metric Format (EMF)
Amazon CloudWatch now provides enhanced visibility into errors in Embedded Metric Format (EMF), with two new error metrics (EMFValidationErrors & EMFParsingErrors). Read More for the details.