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AWS – AWS Security Hub now supports bidirectional integration via AWS Service Management Connector for Atlassian’s Jira Service Management Cloud
Staring today, customers can detect and resolve AWS security findings from AWS Security Hub via AWS Service Management Connector. This integration is built using Atlassian Forge for Atlassian’s Jira Service Management (JSM) Cloud. AWS Security Hub helps customers to perform security best practice checks, aggregate alerts and enables automated remediation. It enables users to view […]
AWS – AWS Service Management Connector now supports provisioning AWS Service Catalog products in Atlassian’s Jira Service Management Cloud
Starting today, customers can search, request and provision products from AWS Service Catalog via AWS Service Management Connector. This integration is built using Atlassian Forge for Atlassian’s Jira Service Management (JSM) Cloud. With this connector, administrators can use existing AWS Service Catalog configurations, including curated products, portfolios, constraints, and tagging, and expose them to JSM […]
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces announces version 2.0 of WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol
Amazon WorkSpaces announces general availability of version 2.0 of the WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP) host agent. WSP is a high performance cloud-native streaming protocol designed to enable your users to access a highly responsive remote desktop experience and features such as 2-way audio video and smart card support. Read More for the details.
AWS – Build event-driven applications with AWS CloudFormation StackSets event notifications in Amazon EventBridge
Today, AWS CloudFormation StackSets launches event notifications via Amazon EventBridge. You can trigger event-driven actions after creating, updating, or deleting your CloudFormation stack sets. You can achieve this without developing or maintaining custom solutions that periodically poll for changes in your CloudFormation stack sets deployments via CloudFormation APIs. With this launch, you can build your […]
AWS – AWS IoT Device Management now supports up to twelve query terms for more granular search and monitoring
We are excited to announce that AWS IoT Device Management Fleet Indexing now supports up to twelve query terms. AWS IoT Device Management is a fully managed service that helps you search, organize, monitor, and remotely manage IoT devices at scale. Read More for the details.
GCP – Does the internet need sunscreen? No, submarine cables are protected from solar storms
To the casual observer, the Sun is constant and unchanging. But in fact, this nearly perfect ball of plasma regularly spits large quantities of superheated gas into interplanetary space, creating solar storms that wreak havoc on the Earth’s magnetic field as they approach and pass through the atmosphere. These geomagnetic disturbances are visible in polar […]
AWS – AWS Amplify Hosting announces support for Next.js 12 and 13
Today, AWS Amplify Hosting announces Next.js 12 and 13 support, including middleware, on-demand incremental static regeneration (ISR), and image optimization. With this release, AWS Amplify Hosting offers fully managed CI/CD deployments and hosting for server-side rendered (SSR) apps built using Next.js and static web apps. Read More for the details.
GCP – Making Cobalt Strike harder for threat actors to abuse
Cobalt Strike, the popular tool used by red teams to test the resilience of their cyber defenses, has seen many iterations and improvements over the last decade. First released in 2012, it was originally the commercial spinoff of the open-source Armitage project that added a graphical user interface (GUI) to the Metasploit framework to help […]
GCP – How one e-commerce platform went from data mistrust to data confidence
Since 2007, PrestaShop has helped companies unlock the power of e-commerce through its open-source platform. Over 300,000 merchants worldwide use the PrestaShop platform to grow their business and serve online shoppers. “Our open-source strategy to ecommerce enablement sets us apart,” says Rémi Paulin, Ph.D., Data Architect at PrestaShop. “Customization is becoming more crucial to retailers, […]
GCP – Introducing Cloud Armor features to help improve efficacy: advanced rule tuning and auto deploy
At Google Cloud Next in October, we announced the Preview release of advanced rule tuning for Cloud Armor which can provide customers more granular control over how they apply our pre-configured Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules. We also announced the Preview of our auto-deploy option for proposed mitigating rules generated by Cloud Armor Adaptive Protection, […]