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GCP – Announcing support for on-premises Windows workloads with Certificate Authority Service
The use of digital certificates to establish trust across our digital infrastructure continues to grow at a rapid pace, driven by development and deployment of cloud-based, containerized, microservice-based applications and the proliferation of connected Internet of Things and smart devices. Google Cloud Certificate Authority Service (CAS) provides a highly scalable and available private CA to […]
GCP – Five must-know security and compliance features in Cloud Logging
As enterprise and public sector cloud adoption continues to accelerate, having an accurate picture of who did what in your cloud environment is important for security and compliance purposes. Logs are critical when you are attempting to detect a breach, investigating ongoing security issues, or performing forensic investigations. These five must-know Cloud Logging security and […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch metrics increases throughput by 150x
Amazon CloudWatch custom metrics now supports a 50x higher capacity allowing you to send up to 1,000 metrics per call at a 3x faster default call rate and specify 3x more dimensions (up to 30) per metric. Customers rely on CloudWatch custom metrics to capture application-specific data that complements the automatic metrics provided by CloudWatch […]
GCP – Access larger dataset faster and easier to accelerate your ML models training in Vertex AI
Vertex AI Training delivers a serverless approach to simplify the ML model training experience for customers. As such, training data does not persist on the compute clusters by design. In the past, customers had only Cloud Storage (GCS) or BigQuery (BQ) as storage options. Now, you can also use NFS shares, such as Filestore, for […]
AWS – AWS Secrets Manager connections now support the latest hybrid post-quantum TLS with Kyber
Connections to AWS Secrets Manager now support hybrid post-quantum key establishment using Kyber for transport layer security (TLS) from Round 3 of the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) selection process. This allows you to measure the potential performance impact of the post-quantum algorithm. You can also benefit from the longer-term confidentiality afforded by hybrid post-quantum TLS. […]
AWS – Announcing the availability of license included Microsoft Visual Studio Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) on Amazon EC2
AWS now offers fully-compliant, Amazon-provided licenses for Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise 2022 and Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). These AMIs are now available on the Amazon EC2 console and on AWS Marketplace, to launch instances on-demand without any long-term licensing commitments. Amazon EC2 provides […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub now supports cross-Region aggregation of findings in AWS GovCloud (US)
AWS Security Hub now allows you to designate an aggregation Region in AWS GovCloud (US) and link some or all regions to that aggregation region. This gives you a centralized view of all your security findings across your accounts and linked regions. After you link a region to the aggregation region, your findings are continuously synchronized […]
Azure – Generally available: Azure Firewall Premium is now ICSA labs certified
Azure Firewall Premium Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) certification from ICSA Labs is now generally available. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET now provides automated refactoring recommendations
AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET simplifies the process of refactoring older monolithic applications into smaller code projects to build a microservices-based architecture. Modernize and transform your applications with an assistive tool that analyzes source code and runtime metrics to create a visual representation of your application and its dependencies. With Microservice Extractor providing automated recommendations, […]
GCP – Easily connect SaaS platforms to Google Cloud with Eventarc
Last year, we launched Eventarc, a unified eventing platform with 90+ sources of events from Google Cloud, helping make it a more programmable cloud. We recognize that most Google Cloud customers utilize a myriad of platforms to run their business, from internal IT systems, to hosted vendor software and SaaS services. Creating and maintaining integrations […]