AWS Config now offers 15 additional sample conformance pack templates that can help you verify your cloud infrastructure’s compliance with one or more frameworks for configuration best practices. With conformance packs, you can package a collection of AWS Config rules and remediation actions that can be...

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) launches a new master class and AWS Labs to get you started using the service and hone your skills with best practices. The new Amazon MSK Master Class, created by Stephane Maarek, AWS Hero, gives you six… Continue...

AWS Security Hub is now authorized as FedRAMP Moderate in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon). The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a US governmen… Continue Reading — AWS...

Amazon S3 Object Ownership is a new S3 feature that enables bucket owners to automatically assume ownership of objects that are uploaded to their buckets by other AWS Accounts. This helps you to standardize ownership of new objects in your bucket, and … Continue Reading...

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports running containers on AWS Fargate in ten additional AWS regions: US West (Northern California), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm)… Continue Reading — Amazon EKS Adds Fargate Support in Northern California, Canada,...

It was found that SNMP Trap Translator does not drop privileges as configured and does not properly escape shell commands in certain functions. A remote attacker, by sending a malicious crafted SNMP trap, could possibly execute arbitrary shell code wit… Continue Reading — Debian LTS:...

You can now run Kubernetes pods as part of your Amazon EKS Kubernetes clusters in the two AWS Local Zones in Los Angeles. With Amazon EKS and Local Zones, you can run latency-sensitive Kubernetes applications closer to end-users in Los Angeles. Once yo… Continue Reading...

AWS Batch now supports new parameters when specifying AWS Batch job definitions, including custom logging configurations, swap space, and shared memory. AWS Batch enables developers, scientists, and engineers to easily and efficiently run hundreds of t… Continue Reading — AWS Batch now supports Custom Logging...

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Amazon Redshift introduces support for natively storing and processing HyperLogLog (HLL) sketches. HyperLogLog is a novel algorithm that efficiently estimates the approximate number of distinct values in a data set. HLL sketch is a construct that encapsulates the information about the distinct values in the data...