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AWS – AWS Amplify Hosting announces support for Next.js 12 and 13
Today, AWS Amplify Hosting announces Next.js 12 and 13 support, including middleware, on-demand incremental static regeneration (ISR), and image optimization. With this release, AWS Amplify Hosting offers fully managed CI/CD deployments and hosting for server-side rendered (SSR) apps built using Next.js and static web apps. Read More for the details.
GCP – Making Cobalt Strike harder for threat actors to abuse
Cobalt Strike, the popular tool used by red teams to test the resilience of their cyber defenses, has seen many iterations and improvements over the last decade. First released in 2012, it was originally the commercial spinoff of the open-source Armitage project that added a graphical user interface (GUI) to the Metasploit framework to help […]
GCP – How one e-commerce platform went from data mistrust to data confidence
Since 2007, PrestaShop has helped companies unlock the power of e-commerce through its open-source platform. Over 300,000 merchants worldwide use the PrestaShop platform to grow their business and serve online shoppers. “Our open-source strategy to ecommerce enablement sets us apart,” says Rémi Paulin, Ph.D., Data Architect at PrestaShop. “Customization is becoming more crucial to retailers, […]
GCP – Introducing Cloud Armor features to help improve efficacy: advanced rule tuning and auto deploy
At Google Cloud Next in October, we announced the Preview release of advanced rule tuning for Cloud Armor which can provide customers more granular control over how they apply our pre-configured Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules. We also announced the Preview of our auto-deploy option for proposed mitigating rules generated by Cloud Armor Adaptive Protection, […]
AWS – Amazon SQS announces attribute-based access control (ABAC) for flexible and scalable access permissions
Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces support for attribute-based access control (ABAC) using queue tags, enabling customers to bolster their overall security postures with a flexible and scalable access control solution. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. Amazon […]
AWS – Application Load Balancers now support turning off cross zone load balancing per target group
Application Load Balancers now support the ability to route traffic only to targets in the same zone as load balancer nodes. This allows you to maintain zonal isolation of your software stacks, while using Application Load Balancers across multiple zones, providing increased availability during zonal failures. Read More for the details.
GCP – Reimagining ride-hailing services with Google Maps Platform
Editor’s note: Today’s guest post comes from Jonathan Campos, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Engineering, Alto. He shares how Alto is transforming the ride-hailing industry with Google Maps Platform. When people first hear about us, they might think we’re just like other ride-hailing companies. But what sets us apart is all Alto […]
AWS – Amazon CloudFront now supports JA3 fingerprint headers
Details: Amazon CloudFront now supports Cloudfront-viewer-ja3-fingerprint headers, enabling customers to access incoming viewer requests’ JA3 fingerprints. Customers can use the JA3 fingerprints to implement custom logic to block malicious clients or allow requests from expected clients only. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Redshift announces support of the CONNECT BY SQL construct
Amazon Redshift, a fully-managed cloud data warehouse, now supports the CONNECT BY SQL construct enabling users to author queries to process hierarchical data in their warehouse. Starting today, you can recursively query the hierarchical data based on parent-child relationship within that data set using the CONNECT BY construct. Read More for the details.
GCP – Automating self-service tech support with Tensorflow
What would tech support be like if an AI agent could recommend the right self-service article before a human support agent even got on the ticket? At Google we wanted to find out. So we got our machine learning teams working on ways to suggest support documentation automatically integrated into our ticketing system, before human […]