Amazon API Gateway now allows you to define VPC Endpoint policies, enabling you to specify which Private APIs a VPC Endpoint can connect to. Using VPC Endpoint policies, you can achieve more fine-grained security control.  

Amazon Inspector is now available to customers in the Europe (London) region. With the addition of this region, Inspector is available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), EU (London), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo), AWS GovCloud (US-West), and AWS GovCloud (US-East).

Amazon Inspector expands Center for Internet Security’s CIS Benchmarks support for Amazon Linux 2. You can now run Inspector CIS assessments on Amazon Linux 2 distributions to check the configuration of your Amazon EC2 instances against the security configuration best practices developed by CIS.

Starting today, you can now connect directly to AWS Glue through an interface endpoint in your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) instead of connecting over the internet. When you use a VPC interface endpoint, communication between your VPC and AWS Glue is conducted entirely and securely within the AWS network.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 I3en instances are available in the US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt) AWS regions, and in additional Availability Zones (AZs) in the US East (N. Virginia) AWS Region. I3en global availability now includes the Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland), US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), and US West (Oregon) AWS regions. 

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports open source Elasticsearch 6.7 and Kibana 6.7. The new version of Elasticsearch and Kibana offers several new features and improvements, including BKD backed geo-shapes datatype, median absolute deviation aggregation, and support for nested fields in composite aggregations

This Quick Start deploys Tableau Server in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud and configures it to work with Snowflake in about 30 minutes. This Quick Start is for IT and database professionals who want to understand the infrastructure requirements of these solutions and deploy production workloads for end users in their organizations.

Hollow laughs were heard all over the UK yesterday when our first 5G network was launched. Those in not-spots, and those thankful to get GPRS and Edge, will regard the ‘launch’ as a bad joke. As with 3G and 4G, 5G is being rolled out mainly to relieve congestion. For a few giddy months, early …

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The bible of high tech selling, Marketing High Technology by Bill Davidow, gives an example of how tricky pricing can be: “The first really powerful 8-bit microprocessor on the market was Intel’s 8080,” writes Davidow, “it had been preceded by a lower-performance device, the 8008, which initially sold for $36.“ “Since the 8080 had ten …

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What are the most popular topics covered? Well, there’s a return of the China-ARM IP story, a Raspberry Pi-based home camera system, the possible sale of Cypress and long-range comms with a Sony chip…

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