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Azure – Generally available: Prevent a lifecycle management policy from archiving recently rehydrated blobs
Use daysAfterLastTierChangeGreaterThan condition in lifecycle management policy to prevent unintended archiving. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing AWS Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector, a new discovery tool for AWS Application Discovery Service
AWS Application Discovery Service now includes the Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector to support enterprise customers gathering information for their migration projects. Deployment occurs via a virtual appliance installed within the user’s on-premises data centers, allowing one install to monitor hundreds of servers. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Security Hub launches announcements notification topic
AWS Security Hub now publishes announcements through Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), helping you stay up to date with the latest feature releases and announcements. To receive announcements about new AWS Security Hub features, subscribe to the AWS Security Hub SNS topic in your preferred Region. Read More for the details.
GCP – A comprehensive cloud security approach for state and local governments
While the digitization of government services and operations has helped enhance the constituent experience, it has also increased the cyber threat surface for governments of all sizes. In 2020, 79 ransomware attacks hit government organizations, amounting to nearly $19 billion in downtime and recovery costs1. Other research indicates 34% of local governments worldwide were hit […]
GCP – Introducing Vertical Autoscaling in streaming Dataflow Prime jobs
Dataflow has provided a number of capabilities to improve utilization and efficiency by automatically provisioning and scaling resources for your job. The following are some of the examples: Horizontal Autoscaling that automatically scales the number of workers. Streaming Engine, which decouples storage from the workers. This also gives workers access to unbounded storage and more […]
GCP – Introducing on-demand backup, schema extension support for Google Cloud’s Managed Microsoft AD
Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Managed Microsoft AD) is a Google Cloud service that offers highly available, hardened Microsoft Active Directory running on Windows virtual machines. We recently added on-demand backup and schema extension capabilities that can help Google Cloud users more easily and effectively manage AD tasks. Managed Microsoft AD is a fully […]
AWS – Announcing support for Crawler history in AWS Glue
AWS Glue Crawlers now provide properties and metrics associated with past crawler executions to simplify monitoring and auditing. This crawler history feature builds on AWS Glue Crawlers; customers use Crawlers to discover datasets, extract schema information, and populate the AWS Glue Data Catalog. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Firewall Manager adds support for AWS Managed Rules for AWS Network Firewall
AWS Firewall Manager now allows you to centrally configure AWS Managed Rules for AWS Network Firewall policies, enabling you to stay up to date on the latest security threats without writing and maintaining your own firewall rules. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning is now available in the Europe (Milan), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Osaka), and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Regions
We are excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning is now available in the Europe (Milan), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Osaka), and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports email subscription for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports email subscription for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). There is no additional cost to use the email subscription feature on your Amazon RDS for SQL Server DB instance. Read More for the details.