Cyberattacks on small and midsized companies in 2019 cost $200,000 per company on average, mercilessly putting many of them out of business, says CNBC in its analysis of a recent Accenture report. In light of…

The promise of SD-Branch is that by collapsing network functionality in branch offices to a unified platform, enterprises can reap benefits in speed of deployment, ease of operation and cost. Since Wi-Fi is a critical…

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AWS IoT Device Management now provides enhanced fleet-level metrics and insights with simple statistics, percentiles, and cardinality. Source:: Amazon AWS

You can now add tags to a lifecycle policy in Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM). Tags allow you to categorize your policies in different ways, such as by department, purpose or owner. You can also enable…

AWS Firewall Manager is now available in Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), South America (Sao Paulo), EU (Paris) and EU (Stockholm), extending the total to 16 AWS Regions and all Amazon CloudFront edge locations. Source::…

You can now launch the next generation general-purpose burstable T3-Standard cache nodes in Amazon ElastiCache. Amazon EC2’s T3-Standard instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst CPU usage at any…

AWS Fargate is a compute engine for Amazon ECS that lets you run containers in production without deploying or managing servers. Fargate lets you focus on designing and building your applications instead of managing the…

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is now available in the China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. You can create DAX clusters in this AWS Region for your DynamoDB applications that require microsecond response times. Source:: Amazon…

Amazon Chime Voice Connector, the AWS SIP trunking service that can save you over 50% on your calling costs, now supports the US West (Oregon) region and redundant call routing across multiple regions for higher…

AWS Launch Wizard for SQL Server is a new service that offers you a guided way of sizing, configuring, and deploying self-managed Microsoft SQL Server Always On Availability Groups on AWS without you having to…

AWS Data Exchange is a new service that makes it easy for millions of AWS customers to securely find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud. Qualified data providers include Reuters, Foursquare, TransUnion,…

Starting today, Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) is available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore) and South America (Sao Paulo) in additional to EU (Dublin), EU (London), EU…

A new and strange ransomware called AnteFrigus is now being distributed through malvertising that redirects users to the the RIG exploit kit. Unlike other ransomware, AnteFrigus does not target the C: drive, but only other…

Windows 10, version 1803, also known as the April 2018 Update, has now reached end of service for Home, Pro, Pro Education, and Pro for Workstations editions, and will no longer receive any future quality…

Amazon DynamoDB enables you to restore your data to a new DynamoDB table by using a point-in-time or on-demand backup. Now, you can configure table settings when you restore a table from your DynamoDB backups.…

AWS Cost Explorer helps you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over a daily or monthly granularity. The solution also lets you dive deeper using granular billing dimensions such as usage type…

Amazon RDS Performance Insights now supports counter metrics on Amazon RDS for SQL Server. With counter metrics, you can customize the RDS Performance Insights dashboard to include up to 10 additional graphs that show a…

As of today, you can create 20 global secondary indexes per Amazon DynamoDB table in AWS GovCloud (US). If you need more than 20 global secondary indexes, you can request an increase. Source:: Amazon AWS

Amazon CloudWatch Metric Math now supports sort, slice, remove empty and conditional statements. With CloudWatch Metric Math, you can aggregate and transform metrics to create custom visualizations of your health and performance metrics. The new…