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GCP – IP addressing options in Google Cloud: Networking basics
In this blog we’ll be visiting the topics of IP addresses and subnetting on Google Cloud. IP addressing and subnetting can be confusing to many, but addressing is a very important requirement in your network. An IP address is a unique identifier for a network and a host. To separate an IP address into network […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports January 2022 Patch Set Update (PSU) for 12.1 and Release Updates (RU) for 12.2 and 19c
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the January 2022 Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1 and Release Updates (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2 and 19c. Please note 21c is already shipped with January 2022 RU. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Glue 2.0 now supports fuzzy matching and deduplication using AWS Glue FindMatches
AWS Glue version 2.0 now supports the AWS Glue FindMatches machine learning transform. AWS Glue FindMatches automates the process of identifying partially matching records for use cases including linking customer records, deduplicating product catalogs, and fraud detection. Using Glue 2.0, ETL jobs that perform fuzzy matching using FindMatches start in under a minute and have […]
AWS – AWS Firewall Manager now supports Palo Alto Networks Cloud Next Generation Firewalls
AWS Firewall Manager now enables you to centrally deploy and monitor Palo Alto Networks Cloud Next Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) across all AWS virtual private clouds (VPCs) in your AWS organization. With this release, customers will now have a single firewall management solution to deploy and manage both AWS native firewalls and Palo Alto Networks Cloud […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub launches 12 controls for security posture monitoring
AWS Security Hub has released 12 new controls for its Foundational Security Best Practice standard (FSBP) to enhance your Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM). These controls conduct fully automatic checks against security best practices for Amazon Auto Scaling, Amazon CloudFront, AWS CodeBuild, Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Lambda, Amazon Network Firewall, Amazon […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 now performs automatic recovery of instances by default
Today, Amazon EC2 announces automatic recovery by default, a new feature that makes it even easier for customers to recover their instance when it becomes unreachable. Automatic recovery improves instance availability by recovering the instance if it becomes impaired due to an underlying hardware issue. Automatic recovery migrates the instance to another hardware during an […]
AWS – Amazon Textract announces updates to its tables and check detection features
Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that makes it easy to extract text and data from virtually any document. We continuously improve the underlying machine learning models based on customer feedback to provide even better accuracy. Today, we are pleased to announce few quality enhancements to both our Tables and checkbox detection features. Read […]
AWS – AWS Organizations now provides central AWS account closure to enable easier end-to-end account lifecycle management
You can now centrally close member accounts in your AWS Organizations through the console and programmatically via the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) and SDK. This feature makes it easier and more efficient for you to manage your Amazon Web Services workloads by enabling you to close member accounts from your organization’s management account without needing […]
AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now enables you to change the throughput capacity of your file systems
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now enables you to change the throughput capacity of your file systems with the click of a button, providing you the flexibility to scale up or down to meet your evolving needs over time. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR Managed Scaling is now Spark shuffle data aware
Amazon EMR Managed Scaling automatically resizes EMR clusters for best performance and resource utilization. Today, we are excited to announce a new capability in Managed Scaling that prevents it from scaling down instances that store intermediate shuffle data for Apache Spark. Intelligently scaling down clusters without removing the instances that store intermediate shuffle data prevents job […]