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AWS – Amazon Inspector enhances engine for Lambda standard scanning
Today, Amazon Inspector announced an upgrade to the engine powering its Lambda standard scanning. This upgrade will provide you with a more comprehensive view of the vulnerabilities in the third-party dependencies used in your Lambda functions and associated Lambda layers in your environment. With the launch of this enhanced scanning engine, you will benefit from […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Model Evaluation now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Model Evaluation on Amazon Bedrock allows you to evaluate, compare, and select the best foundation models for your use case. Amazon Bedrock offers a choice of automatic evaluation and human evaluation. You can use automatic evaluation with predefined algorithms for metrics such as accuracy, robustness, and toxicity. Model evaluation provides built-in curated datasets or you […]
AWS – AWS CloudShell extends most recent capabilities to all commercial Regions
AWS CloudShell now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) support, improved environment start times, and support for Docker environments in all commercial Regions where CloudShell is live. Previously, these features were only available in a limited set of CloudShell’s live commercial Regions. These features increase the productivity of CloudShell customers and enable a consistent experience […]
AWS – Announcing sample-based partitioning for AWS HealthOmics variant stores
We are excited to announce that AWS HealthOmics variant stores are now optimized to improve sample based queries saving time and query costs for customers. AWS HealthOmics helps customers accelerate scientific breakthroughs by providing a fully managed service designed to handle bioinformatics and drug discovery workflows and storage at any scale. With this release, any […]
GCP – Migrate your SQL Server databases using Database Migration Service, now GA
Enterprises are modernizing their IT infrastructure with managed cloud services to boost reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness. Cloud SQL for SQL Server, a fully managed database offering native SQL Server features as well as AI-powered Google Cloud innovations, is a popular choice for such modernization projects. So today, we are excited to announce that SQL Server […]
GCP – Mastering Dataflow: 5 In-Depth Guides to Real-World Applications
Building effective real-time data solutions can be challenging, requiring specialized tools and a deep understanding of streaming data. Dataflow offers the power and flexibility to handle a wide range of use cases. And sometimes a little guidance on how to use it can go a long way. So we’ve crafted five sample Dataflow solution architectures […]
GCP – How virtual red team technology can find high-risk security issues before attackers do
Cloud security teams use cloud-native application protection platforms (CNAPPs) to find misconfigurations and vulnerabilities in their multi-cloud environments. While these solutions can discover thousands of potential security issues in large cloud environments, many fail to answer two fundamental cloud security questions: “Where am I most at risk?” and “What issues should I prioritize?” Security Command […]
AWS – AWS CodePipeline introduces pipeline variable check rule for stage level condition
AWS CodePipeline V2 type pipelines introduces pipeline variable check as a new rule that customers can use in their stage level condition to gate a pipeline execution. You can use this rule with any condition that is evaluated before entering the stage, before exiting a stage – when all actions in the stage have completed […]
AWS – Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB is now available in the Jakarta, Milan, UAE and Zaragoza AWS regions
You can now use Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Europe (Milan), Middle East (UAE) and Europe (Spain) AWS regions. Timestream for InfluxDB makes it easy for application developers and DevOps teams to run fully managed InfluxDB databases on AWS for real-time time-series applications using open-source APIs. Timestream for InfluxDB offers the […]
AWS – Announcing availability of AWS Outposts in Kuwait
AWS Outposts can now be shipped and installed at your data center and on-premises locations in Kuwait. AWS Outposts is a family of fully managed solutions that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises or edge location for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Outposts is ideal for workloads that require […]