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Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Samson Max; If you’ve been traversing the internet without the best VPN for privacy, your personal data could be at risk. This is because the internet landscape is a honeypot for hackers, digital marketers and other third-party snoopers. If your internet traffic travels through the standard unprotected route, it leaves the door open for them to intercept it.  Key Takeaways: ExpressVPN is without a doubt the best VPN for privacy. It might be pricey, but considering its security and privacy features — from secure protocols and solid encryption to perfect forward secrecy and RAM-only servers — it’s ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS SOC reports are independent third-party examination reports that demonstrate how AWS achieves key compliance controls and objectives. In addition to meeting standards for SOC, AWS Application Migration Service is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) eligible, Payment Card Industry – Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant, and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) compliant. You can download the AWS SOC reports in AWS Artifact, and you can visit AWS Services in Scope by Compliance Program to see a full list of services covered by each compliance program ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Fargate for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is now available in the Amazon Web Services China Beijing Region, operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China Ningxia Region, operated by NWCD. AWS Fargate is a serverless, pay-as-you-go compute engine that lets you focus on building applications without managing servers. Amazon EKS is a managed container service to run and scale Kubernetes applications. Using AWS Fargate serverless compute in your Amazon EKS clusters removes the need to provision and manage servers, lets you specify and pay for resources per application, and improves security through application isolation by design ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Stephen Kitay. How can Microsoft empower satellite operators to focus on their mission and enable them to continue the operation of their satellites, without making capital investments in their ground infrastructure? To answer that question, Microsoft worked alongside the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and our partner Xplore, to demonstrate how the commercial cloud can provide satellite mission management for NOAA’s legacy polar satellites (NOAA-18)—extending the mission life of these satellites while reducing the cost of operation through Azure Orbital Ground Station as-a-Service (GSaaS). Partnering with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Xplore ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Sanjeev Pulapaka. Customer experience (CX) has emerged as a key priority in the US following the 2021 Biden Administration Executive Order (EO) to transform federal customer experience and service delivery. The blog post, “How the cloud enables transformational citizen experiences” discusses key areas for organizations to consider in their journey towards better CX, with application modernization as one of the most critical areas. Application modernization enables agencies to simplify business processes and provide customers with flexible, interactive, and simple to use applications, resulting in improved CX. In this blog post, we build on that ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports tag-based authorization for HTTP methods, making it easier for you to manage access control for data read and write operations. You can use Identity policies in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to define permissions for read and write HTTP methods, allowing coarse-grained access control of data on your Amazon OpenSearch Service domains. Amazon OpenSearch Service currently supports tag-based authorization for configuration APIs, enabling you to use resource tags, request tags or tag keys to allow or deny specific operations such as creating, modifying, or updating Amazon OpenSearch Service domains. With this ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Today, AWS Service Catalog announces support for cross-account AppRegistry applications and attribute groups. With this release, applications can now be shared within your AWS Organization enabling recipient accounts to associate their local resources to shared applications. If you have application resources deployed in more than one account within your AWS Organization, you can now maintain a single repository of your applications and application metadata. You first enable AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) for your AWS Organization, a service that enables customers to easily and securely share AWS resources across accounts in an Organization. Once enabled, you use RAM ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon DynamoDB now enables you to proactively manage your account and table quotas through enhanced integration with Service Quotas. Using Service Quotas, you can now view the current values of all your DynamoDB quotas. You can also monitor the current utilization of your account-level quotas ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Derek Belt. The AWS Partner Network (APN) is the global community of partners who leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build solutions and services for customers. We enable AWS Partners to build, market, and sell their AWS offerings, and we help customers identify AWS Partners uniquely positioned to help businesses accelerate their digital transformation journey. There are tens of thousands of AWS Partners across the globe. More than 90% of Fortune 100 companies and the majority of Fortune 500 companies utilize AWS Partner solutions and services. To receive APN program designations such as AWS ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports cross-cluster search across regions, enabling you to perform searches, aggregations, and visualizations across multiple domains in different regions with a single query. Previously, with cross-cluster search, you could search across domains within the same region. Now, you can create a secure connection between domains in two different regions and use the connection for search. Cross-cluster search across regions is supported on domains running OpenSearch, or Elasticsearch version 7.10. To learn about cross-cluster search across regions please refer to the documentation. Cross-cluster search across regions is now available on Amazon OpenSearch Service in ... Read More