AWS Latest Updates

• Amazon Redshift launches enhanced query monitoring to improve query monitoring and diagnostics January 29, 2025
  Amazon Redshift now offers enhanced query monitoring capabilities, enabling you to efficiently identify and isolate performance bottlenecks. This feature provides comprehensive insights to track, evaluate, and diagnose query performance within data warehouses, eliminating the need to manually analyze system tables and logs. Accessible through the AWS console, enhanced query monitoring allows you to view performance […]
• AWS Marketplace adds self-service seller onboarding support for demo and private offer requests January 29, 2025
  AWS Marketplace sellers can now utilize a new self-service process to enable demo and private offer requests for their products through the AWS Marketplace Management Portal and AWS Marketplace Catalog API. Enabling this feature allows customers to request demos and private offers directly from sellers’ product listing pages, accelerating product evaluations and reducing procurement cycle […]
• AWS Marketplace expands self-service listing experience for AMI products with CloudFormation templates January 28, 2025
  AWS Marketplace now offers a self-service listing experience for sellers listing or managing Amazon Machine Image (AMI) products with CloudFormation templates (CFT). This launch expands the self-service listing capability previously available for single-AMI, software as a service (SaaS), and container products. With this release, sellers can now create and manage AMI with CloudFormation listings using […]
• Amazon EC2 M7g instances are now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) January 28, 2025
  Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7g instances are available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed […]
• AWS CodeBuild announces support for project ARN and build ARN IAM condition keys January 28, 2025
  AWS CodeBuild announces support for codebuild:projectArn and codebuild:buildArn as IAM condition keys. These two new condition keys can be used in IAM policies to restrict the ARN of the project or build that originated the request. Starting today, CodeBuild will automatically add the new codebuild:projectArn and codebuild:buildArn condition keys to the request context of all […]

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GCP Latest Updates

• Introducing custom rules in Workload Manager: Evaluate workloads against customized best practices January 29, 2025
  Are you a cloud architect or IT admin tasked with ensuring deployments are following best practices and generating configuration validation reports? The struggle of adopting best practices is real. And not just the first time: ensuring that a config doesn’t drift from org-wide best practices over time is notoriously difficult.     Workload Manager provides a rule-based […]
• Adversarial Misuse of Generative AI January 29, 2025
  Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) are unlocking new possibilities for the way we work and accelerating innovation in science, technology, and beyond. In cybersecurity, AI is poised to transform digital defense, empowering defenders and enhancing our collective security. Large language models (LLMs) open new possibilities for defenders, from sifting through complex telemetry to secure […]
• Outbrain: Taking control of extension security with Chrome Enterprise January 29, 2025
  Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Travis Naraine, IT Infrastructure Engineer, and Harel Shaked, Director of IT Services and Support, both for Outbrain, a leading technology platform that drives business results by engaging people across the open internet. Outbrain adopted Chrome Enterprise and integrations from Spin.AI to create policies for secure app and extension use […]
• ScatterBrain: Unmasking the Shadow of PoisonPlug's Obfuscator January 28, 2025
  Written by: Nino Isakovic Introduction Since 2022, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has been tracking multiple cyber espionage operations conducted by China-nexus actors utilizing POISONPLUG.SHADOW. These operations employ a custom obfuscating compiler that we refer to as "ScatterBrain," facilitating attacks against various entities across Europe and the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. ScatterBrain appears to be […]
• Cloud migrations made easy: a guide to migrating from AWS to Google Cloud January 27, 2025
  More and more customers deploy their workloads on Google Cloud. But what if your workloads are sitting in another cloud? Planning, designing, and implementing a migration of your workloads, data, and processes is not an easy task. It gets even harder if you have to meet requirements that have an impact on the migration, such […]