Tag: Access

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Back in July we released to Public Preview a set of APIs to retrieve user permissions (see this blog post for details). Today, I’m excited to tell you about another nifty API to help you better manage your Power BI asset inventory. The Get User Artifact Access As Admin API takes the graph ID of a user and returns lists of assets that the user has access to. The results are paginated by a continuation token, with each page corresponding to one type of asset. How can this API ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon S3 Access Points customers can now configure Amazon CloudWatch request metrics. With this launch, S3 request metrics can now be generated for all objects in a bucket, or you can generate metrics for specific combinations of prefix, object tags, or access points. With S3 Access Points, you can easily build the right access controls to shared dataset and now with the support of filtering by access points, you can monitor the request patterns by access controls. You can use the S3 Management Console, SDK, API, or AWS CloudFormation to enable S3 request metrics. The metrics are ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. Businesses today are dealing with vast amounts of real-time data they need to process and analyze to generate insights. Real-time delivery of data and insights enable businesses to quickly make decisions in response to sensor data from devices, clickstream events, user engagement, and infrastructure events, among many others. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams offers a managed service that lets you focus on building and scaling your streaming applications for near real-time data processing, rather than managing infrastructure. Customers can write Kinesis Data Streams consumer applications to read data from Kinesis Data Streams and process them per their ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Bill DeForeest. Microsoft customers rely on Azure to host mission-critical workloads and services. A substantial percentage use the traditional infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) approach to deploying virtual machines, often orchestrated with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets or third-party tools. Customers rely on Azure to provide compute capacity on demand. However, in some situations, customers need more specific assurances: Business-critical applications—certain business processes can be disrupted even by a temporary interruption. Disaster recovery (DR)—in the event of a natural disaster, businesses require capacity guarantees to recover and resume operations in a different location. Special events—sometimes a substantial ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points accelerate performance by up to 60% when accessing data sets that are replicated across multiple AWS Regions. Based on AWS Global Accelerator, S3 Multi-Region Access Points consider factors like network congestion and the location of the requesting application to dynamically route your requests over the AWS network to the lowest latency copy of your data. This automatic routing allows you to take advantage of the global infrastructure of AWS while maintaining a simple application architecture. Applications running on-premises or within AWS can also connect to an S3 Multi-Region Access Point using AWS PrivateLink. Establishing ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. IAM Access Analyzer helps you achieve least privilege by generating fine-grained policies that specify the required actions for more than 50 services. In April 2021, IAM Access Analyzer added policy generation to help you create IAM policies based on your AWS CloudTrail activity. Now, we are extending policy generation to identify actions used for more than 50 services such as Amazon ECR, Amazon Athena, and AWS Security Hub. When you request a policy, IAM Access Analyzer gets to work and generates a policy by analyzing your AWS CloudTrail logs to identify actions used. For other services, IAM ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Starting today, you can assign tags to easily organize, track, or control access your resources. This can be used to allocate costs or get detailed billing reports across your Transcribe jobs. You can attach tags to resources such as transcription jobs, vocabulary, vocabulary filter, and custom language models within Transcribe. Each tag consists of a customer-defined key and an optional value that makes it easy to manage, search, and filter resources. For example, you can set ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Kit Copson; Netflix is widely considered the place to be when you want to dive into a binge watching session, but you might be disappointed to find that the show you want to watch isn’t available in your region. This is called geoblocking, and the best solution is to use a virtual private network (VPN). However, Netflix bans the use of VPNs with its service. Unfortunately, Netflix doesn’t have the rights to air certain content in certain countries. The ban is in place to prevent VPN users from accessing Netflix libraries other than the one in their ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. In April 2021, IAM Access Analyzer added policy generation to help you create fine-grained policies based on AWS CloudTrail activity stored within your account. Now, we are extending policy generation to enable you to generate policies based on access activity stored in a designated account. For example, you can use AWS Organizations to define a uniform event logging strategy for your organization and store all CloudTrail logs in your management account to streamline governance activities. IAM Access Analyzer helps you by reviewing access activity stored in your designated account and generates a fine-grained IAM policy in your ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Raster data access from the spatial database is an important feature, and the coming release of PostGIS will make remote access more practical by allowing access to private cloud storage.Previous versions could access rasters in public buckets, which is fine for writing blog posts, but in the real world people frequently store their data in private buckets, so we clearly needed the ability to add security tokens to our raster access ... Read More