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Bad Identity Management Can Lead to AWS S3 Security Breaches
A single compromised identity can lead to serious security vulnerabilities in Amazon Web Services S3 environments, according to new research by Ermetic.
Compute
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling will no longer add support for new EC2 features to Launch Configurations
This post is written by Scott Horsfield, Principal Solutions Architect, EC2 Scalability and Surabhi Agarwal, Sr. Product Manager, EC2. In 2010, AWS released launch configurations as a way to define the parameters of instances launched by EC2 Auto Scaling groups. In 2017, AWS released launch templates, the successor of launch configurations, Read more…
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Semiconductor Maker NXP Taps AWS To Speed Up Chip Design
To improve efficiency, Netherlands-based chip maker NXP is partnering with Amazon Web Services in an effort to offload most of its design and testing workloads onto the cloud.
Compute
Visualizing AWS Step Functions workflows from the AWS Batch console
This post written by Dhiraj Mahapatro, Senior Specialist SA, Serverless. AWS Step Functions is a low-code visual workflow service used to orchestrate AWS services, automate business processes, and build serverless applications. Step Functions workflows manage failures, retries, parallelization, service integrations, and observability so builders can focus on business logic. AWS Read more…
Compute
Accepting API keys as a query string in Amazon API Gateway
This post was written by Ronan Prenty, Sr. Solutions Architect and Zac Burns, Cloud Support Engineer & API Gateway SME Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easier for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. APIs act as the front Read more…
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Overall Cloud Revenues Jumped 25 Percent in First Half of 2021
Cloud vendors collectively raked in $235 billion in revenues over the first six months of the year, with the biggest gains coming from cloud infrastructure services — the domain AWS, Microsoft and Google.
DevOps
Align with best practices while creating infrastructure using CDK Aspects
Organizations implement compliance rules for cloud infrastructure to ensure that they run the applications according to their best practices. They utilize AWS Config to determine overall compliance against the configurations specified in their internal guidelines. This is determined after the creation of cloud resources in their AWS account. This post Read more…
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VMware Cloud on AWS Improvements Announced at VMworld
VMware kicked off its two-day virtual VMworld 2021 conference on Tuesday, announcing several updates to VMware’s long-running strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services.
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Clumio Debuts Air-Gapped Backup and Recovery Solution for Amazon S3
Data protection company Clumio this week unveiled a new backup-as-a-service tool for Amazon S3 customers.
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Cloudflare Launches Storage Alternative to ‘Exorbitant’ AWS S3
A new object storage service from Cloudflare is taking aim at Amazon S3’s data transfer costs.