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AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 3, 6, 9, and 12TiB of memory are now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 3TiB (u-3tb1.56xlarge), 6TiB (u-6tb1.56xlarge, u-6tb1.112xlarge), 9TiB (u-9tb1.112xlarge), and 12TiB of memory (u-12tb1.112xlarge) are available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Backup Launches New Backup Vault Lock Console Experience
AWS Backup now offers a new Backup Vault Lock console experience that provides you a more intuitive way to configure your vault lock details. AWS Backup Vault Lock allows you to deploy and manage your vault’s immutability policies, protecting your backups from accidental or malicious deletions. Depending on your data retention needs, with AWS Backup Vault […]
GCP – U.S. Army chooses Google Workspace to deliver cutting-edge collaboration
In June, we announced the creation of Google Public Sector, a new Google division focusing on helping U.S. public sector entities—including federal, state, and local governments, and educational institutions—accelerate their digital transformations. It is our belief that Google Public Sector, and our industry partner ecosystem, will play an important role in applying cloud technology to […]
Azure – Public preview: Azure Firewall Basic
Azure Firewall Basic provides cost-effective, enterprise-grade network security for small and medium businesses (SMBs). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon S3 Object Lambda now supports using your own code to modify the results of S3 HEAD and LIST API requests
Amazon S3 Object Lambda now supports adding your own code to S3 HEAD and LIST API requests, in addition to S3 GET requests. With S3 Object Lambda, you can modify the data returned by S3 GET requests to filter rows, dynamically resize images, redact confidential data, and much more. Now, you can also use S3 Object […]
AWS – Amazon Nimble Studio announces availability of Windows Server 2022 base image
Amazon Nimble Studio now provides a Amazon Machine Image (AMI) running Windows Server 2022 in the AWS Marketplace that contains the same pre-installed software as our existing AMIs. Nimble Studio users can further customize this baseline AMI for studio specific workflows. Microsoft Windows Server 2022 helps studios take advantage of the latest Windows features and support […]
AWS – Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now supports two new CloudWatch metrics to measure and track network address usage
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) has introduced two new networking metrics; 1) Network Address Usage and 2) Peered Network Address Usage. These new metrics will help network administrators plan for expansion of their VPC architecture while proactively managing service quotas. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise increasing quota limit for Assets and Asset Models
AWS IoT SiteWise has increased quota limits for Assets and Asset Models to support larger and more complex equipment representations, and allow customers to perform bulk operations on resources. Read More for the details.
AWS – IAM Access Analyzer makes it easier to author and validate role trust policies
IAM Access Analyzer policy validation helps you author secure and functional policies. Now, we are extending policy validation to role trust policy to make it easier to author and validate the policy that determines who can assume a role. The new IAM console experience for role trust policy guides you to add each element of the […]
GCP – Use Artifact Registry and Container Scanning to shift left on security and streamline your deployments
3 ways Artifact Registry & Container Analysis can help optimize and protect container workloads Cybercrime costs companies 6 trillion dollars annually, with ransomware damage accounting for $20B alone1. A major source of attack vectors is vulnerabilities present in your open source software and vulnerabilities are more common in popular projects. In 2021, the top 10% […]