Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Introducing Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection: AI/ML attack sequence identification for enhanced cloud security

Today, I’m happy to introduce advanced AI/ML threat detection capabilities in Amazon GuardDuty. This new feature uses the extensive cloud visibility and scale of AWS to provide improved threat detection for your applications, workloads, and data. GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection employs sophisticated AI/ML to identify both known and previously unknown attack sequences, offering a more […]

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Container Insights with enhanced observability now available in Amazon ECS

Last year, we announced enhanced observability in Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights, a new capability to improve your observability for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). This capability helps you detect and fix container issues faster by providing detailed performance metrics and logs. Expanding this capability, today we’re launching enhanced observability for your container workloads running […]

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AWS Clean Rooms now supports multiple clouds and data sources

Today, we are announcing support for Snowflake and Amazon Athena as new sources for AWS Clean Rooms data collaborations. AWS Clean Rooms helps you and your partners more seamlessly and securely analyze your collective datasets without sharing or copying one another’s underlying data. This enhancement helps you collaborate with datasets stored in Snowflake or those […]

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New physical AWS Data Transfer Terminals let you upload to the cloud faster

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS Data Transfer Terminal, a secure physical location where you can bring your storage devices and upload data faster to the AWS Cloud. The first Data Transfer Terminals are located in Los Angeles and New York, with plans to add more locations globally. You can reserve a time […]

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Amazon FSx for Lustre increases throughput to GPU instances by up to 12x

Today, we are announcing support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) and NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS) on Amazon FSx for Lustre. EFA is a network interface for Amazon EC2 instances that makes it possible to run applications requiring high levels of inter-node communications at scale. GDS is a technology that creates a direct data path between […]

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Time-based snapshot copy for Amazon EBS

You can now specify a desired completion duration (15 minutes to 48 hours) when you copy an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshot within or between AWS Regions and/or accounts. This will help you to meet time-based compliance and business requirements for critical workloads. For example: Testing – Distribute fresh data on a timely […]

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Heroku Uplifts Developer Experience with a Shorter Build and Deploy Cycle

Across the country, companies are on a quest to find an easy button to fast-track delivery of applications to customers. An accumulating number of side tasks are continually pushing out their time to market. A central issue that has plagued app development companies is the stretched-out phase of deployment that begins after developers have written […]

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AWS Extends Generative AI Reach to Third-Party IT Platforms

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has extended the reach of its generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform for application development to include a set of plug-in extensions, that make it possible to launch natural language queries against data residing in platforms from Datadog and Wiz. Source: DevOps.com

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Mezmo Simplifies Management of Telemetry Data to Reduce Observability Costs

Mezmo has added a more opinionated option to its platform for managing telemetry data that makes it simpler to add additional sources and ultimately reduce the volume data being collected to help reduce overall costs. Source: DevOps.com

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AWS Extends Reach of Authentication Service to Include Support for Passkeys

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated its authentication service to make it simpler for software engineering teams to eliminate passwords. In addition to now adding support of passkey authentication based on public key cryptography and biometrics to the Amazon Cognito service, the Amazon Cognito service already supports one-time-passwords over email and SMS connection. Passkey support […]

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