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GCP – New observability features for your Splunk Dataflow streaming pipelines
We’re thrilled to announce several new observability features for the Pub/Sub to Splunk Dataflow template to help operators keep a tab on their streaming pipeline performance. Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud customers use the Splunk Dataflow template to reliably export Google Cloud logs for in-depth analytics for security, IT or business use cases. With newly […]

AWS – Amazon VPC now supports multiple IPv6 CIDR blocks
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the launch of multiple IPv6 classless inter-domain routing (CIDR) blocks in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), enabling customer to attach up to 5 prefixes to their VPCs. Before today, customers could add up to 5 IPv4 CIDR blocks and 1 IPv6 block. With this new feature, customers can now use […]

GCP – Helping global governments and organizations adopt Zero Trust architectures
For more than a decade, Google has applied a Zero Trust approach to most aspects of our operations. Zero Trust’s core tenet–that implicit trust in any single component of a complex, interconnected system can create serious security risks–is fundamental to how we operate and build our security architecture. Early in our security journey, we realized […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics adds support for canary resources deletion when a canary is deleted
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports deletion of underlying canary resources along with the canary deletion. When you delete a canary you can choose whether to also delete related resources created by the canary, thus making canary resources management easier and efficient. Synthetics canaries that run on a defined frequency to monitor the health and performance […]

AWS – Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring now supports sending mirrored traffic to Gateway Load Balancer backed monitoring appliances
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Traffic Mirroring now supports sending mirrored traffic to monitoring appliances behind a Gateway Load Balancer. This feature enables Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring customers to centralize the out-of-band monitoring and inspection of network traffic across AWS accounts and VPCs. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Lambda adds support for Node.js 16
AWS Lambda now supports Node.js 16 as both a managed runtime and a container base image. Developers creating serverless applications in Lambda with Node.js 16 can take advantage of new features such as support for Apple silicon for local development, the timers promises API, and enhanced performance. For more information on Lambda’s support for Node.js […]

GCP – Introducing Open Source Insights data in BigQuery to help secure software supply chains
Today we’re announcing a new Google Cloud Dataset from Open Source Insights which will help developers better understand the structure and security of the software they use. This dataset provides access to critical software supply chain information for developers, maintainers and consumers of open-source software. Your users rely not only on the code you write, […]

GCP – Your guide to sessions at Google Cloud Security Summit 2022
Google Cloud Security Summit is just a few days away! We have an exciting agenda with a keynote, demo, and breakout sessions across four tracks – Zero Trust, Secure Software Supply Chain, Ransomware & Emerging Threats, and Cloud Governance & Sovereignty. By attending this summit, you will be the first to learn about new products […]

GCP – Sharpen your machine learning skills at Google Cloud Applied ML Summit
Artificial intelligence (AI) and particularly machine learning (ML) continue to advance at breakneck pace. We see it throughout projects and commentaries across the broader technology industry. We see it in the amazing things our customers are doing, from creating friendly robots to aid childhood development, to leveraging data for better manufacturing and distribution, to fostering […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 to Gen2 using Azure Portal
Migrate your data from Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 to Gen2 to speed up your time to insights Read More for the details.