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Archives for January 2019
AWS Step Functions Now Supports Resource Tagging
AWS Step Functions is a workflow automation service that lets you quickly connect and coordinate multiple AWS services and applications. By using tags with Step Functions, you can define and associate labels with your Step Functions state machines, which make it easier to manage, search for, and filter resources. For example, you can use tags […]
How ASLR protects Linux systems from buffer overflow attacks
Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is a memory-protection process for operating systems that guards against buffer-overflow attacks. It helps to ensure that the memory addresses associated with running processes on systems are not predictable, thus flaws or vulnerabilities associated with these processes will be more difficult to exploit. ASLR is used today on Linux, Windows, […]
Amazon Pinpoint is now available in three additional regions
Amazon Pinpoint is now available in the US West (Oregon), EU (Frankfurt), and EU (Ireland) regions in addition to the US East (Virginia) region. You can now use Amazon Pinpoint to power your digital user engagement without having to transfer your customer data across regions. This regional expansion is particularly useful for organizations in certain […]
Amazon EMR Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement
AWS will use commercially reasonable efforts to make Amazon EMR available with a Monthly Uptime Percentage, during any monthly billing cycle, of at least 99.9% (the “Service Commitment”). In the event Amazon EMR does not meet the Service Commitment, you will be eligible to receive a Service Credit as described in the Amazon EMR Service […]
ICANN housecleaning revokes old DNS security key
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) this week will do some important housecleaning from its successful, first-ever cryptographic key change performed last October. In October, ICANN rolled out a new, more secure root zone Key Signing Key -2017 (KSK-2017), but the process wasn’t complete because the old key, KSK-2010 remained in the […]
ICANN housecleaning will revoke old DNS security key this week
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will this week do some important housecleaning from its successful, first-ever cryptographic key change performed last October. In October ICANN rolled out a new, more secure root zone Key Signing Key -2017 (KSK-2017) but the process wasn’t complete as the old key, KSK-2010 remained in the zone. […]
Announcing AWS Fargate Price Reduction By Up To 50%
At re:Invent 2018 we announced Firecracker, an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant containers and functions-based services. Firecracker enables you to deploy workloads in lightweight virtual machines called microVMs. These microVMs can initiate code faster, with less overhead. Innovations such as these allow us to improve the efficiency […]
Deploy Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Service on AWS with New Quick Start
Using the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service, you can deliver secure virtual apps and desktops to any device, and leave most of the product installation, setup, configuration, upgrades, and monitoring to Citrix. You maintain complete control over applications, policies, and users while delivering a high-quality user experience. The Quick Start is intended for users […]
AWS ParallelCluster is now available in AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region
AWS ParallelCluster is a fully supported and maintained open source cluster management tool that makes it easy for scientists, researchers, and IT administrators to deploy and manage High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters in the AWS cloud. HPC clusters are collections of tightly coupled compute, storage, and networking resources that enable customers to run large scale […]