Starting today you can provision Amazon Cognito resources using AWS CloudFormation.

CloudFormation updated support for new resources:

• AWS::Cognito::IdentityPool
  • Create an Amazon Cognito identity pool.
• AWS::Cognito::IdentityPoolRoleAttachment
  • Manage the role configuration for an Amazon Cognito identity pool.
• AWS::Cognito::UserPool
  • Create an Amazon Cognito user pool.
• AWS::Cognito::UserPoolClient
  • Create an Amazon Cognito user pool client.
• AWS::Cognito::UserPoolGroup
  • Create a user group in an Amazon Cognito user pool.
• AWS::Cognito::UserPoolUser
  • Create an Amazon Cognito user pool user.
• AWS::Cognito::UserPoolUserToGroupAttachment
  • Attach a user to an Amazon Cognito user pool group.

Starting today, Amazon QuickSight customers can log user actions within their QuickSight accounts using AWS CloudTrail for governance, compliance and auditing purposes. With this feature, customers can continuously log, monitor and retain events associated with Amazon QuickSight, and answer questions on Who, When and What with regards to data access in QuickSight, to comply with corporate policies.

You can now use Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) to exchange sensitive data between applications using server-side encryption (SSE) integrated with the AWS Key Management Service (KMS). Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service for reliably communicating between distributed software components and microservices – at any scale. You can use Amazon SQS to take advantage of the scale, cost, and operational benefits of a managed messaging service. The addition of server-side encryption allows you to transmit sensitive data with the increased security of using encrypted queues.

The deal is worth $23 million in cash.

 

Clearlake Capital-backed GlobeLTR expands pre-frac and produced water sourcing, delivery and transportation capabilities and services in the Permian Basin.

 

The Trump appointee to the US FCC chairmanship, Ajit Pai, said yesterday he wants to abandon net neutrality – the rule that everyone must get equal service from broadband providers. Net neutrality stops broadband providers charging extra for fast service. Pai said yesterday that he believed the rules depressed investment by internet providers and cost …

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The Innovation Network Company of Japan (INCJ), a government bail-out fund for troubled companies, is to sell a 20% stake in Renesas. INCJ currently holds 69% of Renesas after bailing out the company in 2013. At that time the company had cumulative losses of some $6 billion over the previous seven years. INCJ bought its …

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ST re-appoints Carlo Bozotti as CEO and has appointed Jean-Marc Chery as deputy CEO.

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Premier Farnell has signed a global franchise agreement with Dialog. ‘This new agreement expands our product range, and coupled with Dialog’s advanced system-level knowhow, deep portfolio of intellectual property and mixed signal innovation, further enables us to provide a full service solution for customers, supporting our customers from design to initial production as they take their …

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