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These events are informal and promote collaboration, a learning culture, increase engagement and drive personal, team, and business development. These are optional meetings, training sessions or presentations that take place during lunch, where you bring your lunch!
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Mainframe systems are increasingly becoming a bottleneck for businesses striving to keep up with modern demands for agility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. The 2025 AWS Mainframe Modernization Day and AWS Mainframe Modernization Bootcamp offer invaluable insights and strategies for organizations seeking to modernize their legacy mainframe systems. Registration is open until February 18th, learn more by following the link below.
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AWS
- February 21, 2025 - Amazon AppStream 2.0 - Certificate-Based Authentication is now available on Amazon AppStream 2.0 multi-session fleets
- February 21, 2025 - Amazon MSK - Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 3.8
- February 21, 2025 - Amazon RDS - Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 17.4, 16.8, 15.12, 14.17, 13.20
- February 21, 2025 - AWS CodePipeline - AWS CodePipeline adds native Amazon EC2 deployment support
- February 21, 2025 - AWS Database Migration Service - AWS Database Migration Service now supports Multi-ENI networking for homogeneous migrations.
- February 21, 2025 - AWS Lake Formation - Announcing fine-grained access control via AWS Lake Formation with EMR on EKS
- February 21, 2025 - Cloud Financial Management - You can now use your China UnionPay credit card to create an AWS account
- February 20, 2025 - AWS Account Billing - AWS announces Backup Payment Methods for invoices
- February 20, 2025 - AWS CodePipeline - AWS CodePipeline adds native Amazon EKS deployment support
- February 20, 2025 - AWS Elastic Beanstalk - Amazon Elastic Beanstalk now supports Windows Server 2025 and Windows Server Core 2025 environments
- February 19, 2025 - Amazon ECS - Amazon ECS increases the CPU limit for ECS tasks to 192 vCPUs
- February 19, 2025 - Amazon RDS - Amazon RDS for MySQL supports new minor versions 8.0.41 and 8.4.4
- February 19, 2025 - Amazon SES - SES Outbound now delivers to Mail Manager Archives
- February 19, 2025 - AWS Database Migration Service - Announcing AWS DMS Serverless comprehensive premigration assessments
- February 19, 2025 - AWS Network Firewall - AWS Network Firewall introduces automated domain lists and insights
- February 18, 2025 - Amazon Timestream - Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB Adds Read Replica support
- February 18, 2025 - AWS Amplify - Amplify Hosting announces support for IAM roles for server-side rendered (SSR) applications
- February 18, 2025 - AWS WAF - AWS WAF enhances Data Protection and logging experience
- February 17, 2025 - Amazon Aurora - Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift now available in 18 additional regions
- February 17, 2025 - Amazon EMR - Dynamically update your running EMR cluster with reconfiguration for instance fleets
- February 17, 2025 - AWS Cloud Development Kit - AWS CDK releases L2 construct support for Amazon Data Firehose delivery streams
- February 17, 2025 - AWS PrivateLink - AWS Price List API supports AWS PrivateLink
- February 07, 2025 - Amazon EBS - Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
- February 07, 2025 - Amazon FSx For OpenZFS - Amazon FSx now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) on FSx Service APIs
- February 07, 2025 - AWS Config - AWS Config now supports 4 new resource types
- February 07, 2025 - AWS Marketplace - Announcing custom payment schedules for AWS Marketplace Channel Partner private offers
- February 07, 2025 - AWS Step Functions - AWS Step Functions expands data source and output options for Distributed Map
- February 06, 2025 - AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio - AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code now supports Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
- February 06, 2025 - AWS Verified Access - AWS Verified Access launches Zero Trust access to resources over non-HTTP(S) protocols
- February 06, 2025 - AWS WAF - AWS WAF Console adds new top insights visualizations in additional regions
- February 06, 2025 - AWS Elemental MediaTailor - AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports log delivery to additional destinations
- February 06, 2025 - Amazon GuardDuty - Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3 announces price reduction
- February 06, 2025 - Amazon IAM Identity Center - AWS IAM Identity Center now offers improved error messages and AWS CloudTrail logging for provisioning issues
- February 06, 2025 - Amazon MSK - Amazon MSK expands Express Brokers to 10 more AWS Regions
- February 06, 2025 - Amazon Personalize - Amazon Personalize now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
- February 06, 2025 - Amazon Q - Amazon Q Developer introduces a new, simplified setup experience for Pro tier subscriptions
- February 06, 2025 - Amazon RDS - Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports January 2025 Release Update
- February 06, 2025 - AWS AppSync - AWS AppSync releases CDK L2 constructs to simplify creating WebSocket APIs
- February 06, 2025 - AWS CloudFormation - Reshape your AWS CloudFormation stacks seamlessly with stack refactoring
- February 06, 2025 - Amazon EC2 - Cost Optimization Hub supports more EC2 Auto Scaling group recommendations
- February 05, 2025 - Amazon DocumentDB - Amazon DocumentDB now offers one-click connectivity with CloudShell
- February 05, 2025 - Amazon EC2 - Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are now available in Europe (Zurich)
- February 05, 2025 - Amazon EC2 - Announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 F2.6xlarge, a new F2 instance size
- February 05, 2025 - Amazon ECS - Amazon ECS Service Connect is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions
- February 05, 2025 - Amazon Q - Amazon Q Business introduces orchestration for user query management
- February 05, 2025 - AWS Database Migration Service - Announcing the general availability of AWS Database Migration Service Serverless support for files with an S3 source endpoint
- February 05, 2025 - AWS IAM - AWS IAM announces support for encrypted SAML assertions
- February 05, 2025 - AWS Step Functions - AWS Step Functions now supports 100,000 state machines and activities per AWS account
- February 05, 2025 - AWS Wickr - AWS Wickr now provides a dedicated space to organize and access files
- February 04, 2025 - Amazon CloudWatch - Amazon CloudWatch and OpenSearch Service expand region support for integrated analytics experience
- February 04, 2025 - Amazon Connect - Amazon Connect Contact Lens can now automatically email agents about completed performance evaluations
- February 04, 2025 - Amazon Connect - Amazon Connect Cases now supports conditionally required fields
- February 04, 2025 - Amazon Q - Amazon Q Developer now troubleshoots AWS Console errors in all AWS Commercial regions
- February 03, 2025 - Amazon Connect - Amazon Connect now supports configuration of which states an agent can be in when adhering to their schedule
- February 03, 2025 - Amazon RDS - Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports new minor version in December 2024
- February 03, 2025 - AWS CodeBuild - AWS CodeBuild now integrates with Buildkite
- February 03, 2025 - AWS Systems Manager - Amazon EC2 now supports automated recovery of Microsoft SQL Server with VSS
- February 03, 2025 - AWS Batch - AWS Batch launches new features for access control and management of AWS Batch on EKS workloads
- Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) - IAM Db Auth Customer Visible Metrics and Logs
- AWS Local Zones - User Friendly Local Zones Names in describeAZ APIs
- Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) - resource-level permission on CopySnapshot API
- Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) - ECS Start Before Stop in US ISO East, US ISO West, US ISOB East (Ohio) Regions
- Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) - SES Mail Manager Recipients
- Global Navigation - Top Navigation Launch
- Commerce Platform - Enable new currencies for wire/bank transfer payments
- Commerce Platform - Accept card payments in new currencies
- Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) - SES Mail Manager regional expansion
- AWS CloudFormation - StackSets scales to 50k accounts for AWS Organizations
- Amazon EC2 - SSMSAP support for ABAP distributed and HA landscapes
- Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) - WorkMail console merged with SES console
- AWS Clean Rooms - Cluster Configuration for Lookalike Modeling
- AWS Partner Central - PC Guide Improvements
- Amazon Timestream - Support for IPv6
- AWS Lake Formation - Automatic statistics computation for Apache Iceberg and Lakehouse tables
- AWS Lake Formation - Unification and fine grained access controls on federated sources
- Amazon CloudWatch - Application Signals - SLO Burn Rate
- Amazon EC2 - SSM GUIConnect - Session Recording
- Amazon GameLift - Containers support for GameLift - GA
- Amazon SageMaker - Model Registry Lineage Support
- Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) - Deterministic Easy DKIM
- AWS Auto Scaling - Availability Zone Distribution - US ISO East, US ISO West, US ISOB East (Ohio)
- AWS IoT FleetWise - AWS IoT FleetWise Remote Commands
- Commerce Platform - Enable new currencies for wire/bank transfer payments
- Commerce Platform - Accept card payments in new currencies
- Amazon WorkMail - WorkMail IdC Integration GA
- AWS Clean Rooms - ACR ML Bring Your Own Model
- AWS Clean Rooms - EMR Compute Engine for AWS Clean Rooms
- AWS Lake Formation - Scheduled generation of Glue Catalog statistics
- Amazon Keyspaces - Keyspaces User-Defined Types without MRR and Alter Support
- Amazon OpenSearch Service - TriNeo - next generation of OpenSearch Dashboards
- Amazon Polly - Amazon Polly launches more Generative voices
- Amazon Q Developer - Complex AWS Actions
- Amazon SageMaker - HyperPod - Scale down cluster nodes (using DeleteCluster and UpdateCluster)
- Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) - SES Mail Manager Relay, Rules, & Archive enhancements
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) - Shared Security Group
- AWS Auto Scaling - Instance Refresh Bake Time
- AWS Auto Scaling - Availability Zone Distribution
- Amazon IVS - RTMP Ingest
- Amazon QuickSight - Build-a-BI Brand Customization
- Amazon EC2 - Connections listing for Fleet Manager RDP session
- AWS Ground Station - AWS Ground Station Digital Twin
- Amazon Connect - [Analytics-Support for Subtype] - Historical changes to HM UI to support subtype (eg. SMS and WebRTC)
- Amazon Dash Cart - Image capture assists
- Amazon Dash Cart - Fiducial-reduced localization
- Amazon Dash Cart - Always-open receipt
- AWS Outposts - Outposts Country Launch in Jordan
- February 17, 2025 - AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Developer Day, Trust Center, Well-Architected for Enterprises, and more (Feb 17, 2025)
- February 05, 2025 - AWS CodeBuild for macOS adds support for Fastlane
- February 03, 2025 - AWS Weekly Roundup: DeepSeek-R1, S3 Metadata, Elastic Beanstalk updates, and more (February 3, 2024)
- December 19, 2024 - Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large is now available in Amazon Bedrock
- December 16, 2024 - New Amazon EC2 High Memory U7inh instance on HPE Server for large in-memory databases
- December 16, 2024 - And that's a wrap!
- December 16, 2024 - AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 F2 instances, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails price reduction, Amazon SES update, and more (December 16, 2024)
- December 11, 2024 - Now Available - Second-Generation FPGA-Powered Amazon EC2 instances (F2)
- December 04, 2024 - Introducing Buy with AWS: an accelerated procurement experience on AWS Partner sites, powered by AWS Marketplace
- December 04, 2024 - Accelerate foundation model training and fine-tuning with new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod recipes
- December 04, 2024 - AWS Education Equity Initiative: Applying generative AI to educate the next wave of innovators
- December 04, 2024 - Solve complex problems with new scenario analysis capability in Amazon Q in QuickSight
- December 04, 2024 - Use Amazon Q Developer to build ML models in Amazon SageMaker Canvas
- December 04, 2024 - Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now supports multimodal toxicity detection with image support (preview)
- December 04, 2024 - New Amazon Bedrock capabilities enhance data processing and retrieval
- December 04, 2024 - Reduce costs and latency with Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing and prompt caching (preview)
- December 04, 2024 - Amazon Bedrock Marketplace: Access over 100 foundation models in one place
- December 04, 2024 - Meet your training timelines and budgets with new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod flexible training plans
- December 04, 2024 - Maximize accelerator utilization for model development with new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod task governance
- December 03, 2024 - Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse integrated access controls now available in Amazon Athena federated queries
- December 03, 2024 - Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse and Amazon Redshift supports zero-ETL integrations from applications
- December 03, 2024 - Simplify analytics and AI/ML with new Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse
- December 03, 2024 - New Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse
- December 03, 2024 - Discover, govern, and collaborate on data and AI securely with Amazon SageMaker Data and AI Governance
- December 03, 2024 - Announcing the general availability of data lineage in the next generation of Amazon SageMaker and Amazon DataZone
- December 03, 2024 - Introducing the next generation of Amazon SageMaker: The center for all your data, analytics, and AI
- December 03, 2024 - Amazon Q Business is adding new workflow automation capability and 50+ action integrations
- December 03, 2024 - New capabilities from Amazon Q Business enable ISVs to enhance generative AI experiences
- December 02, 2024 - Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2024
- December 02, 2024 - Introducing Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection: AI/ML attack sequence identification for enhanced cloud security
- December 02, 2024 - Container Insights with enhanced observability now available in Amazon ECS
- December 02, 2024 - AWS Clean Rooms now supports multiple clouds and data sources
- December 02, 2024 - New physical AWS Data Transfer Terminals let you upload to the cloud faster
- December 02, 2024 - Enhance your productivity with new extensions and integrations in Amazon Q Business
- December 02, 2024 - Announcing Amazon FSx Intelligent-Tiering, a new storage class for FSx for OpenZFS
- December 02, 2024 - New RAG evaluation and LLM-as-a-judge capabilities in Amazon Bedrock
- December 02, 2024 - Newly enhanced Amazon Connect adds generative AI, WhatsApp Business, and secure data collection
- December 02, 2024 - Securely share AWS resources across VPC and account boundaries with PrivateLink, VPC Lattice, EventBridge, and Step Functions
- December 02, 2024 - New AWS Security Incident Response helps organizations respond to and recover from security events
- December 01, 2024 - New APIs in Amazon Bedrock to enhance RAG applications, now available
- December 01, 2024 - Connect users to data through your apps with Storage Browser for Amazon S3
- December 01, 2024 - Introducing new PartyRock capabilities and free daily usage
- December 01, 2024 - Amazon MemoryDB Multi-Region is now generally available
- December 01, 2024 - Introducing default data integrity protections for new objects in Amazon S3
- December 01, 2024 - AWS Database Migration Service now automates time-intensive schema conversion tasks using generative AI
- December 01, 2024 - Simplify governance with declarative policies
- December 01, 2024 - AWS Verified Access now supports secure access to resources over non-HTTP(S) protocols (in preview)
- December 01, 2024 - Announcing AWS Transfer Family web apps for fully managed Amazon S3 file transfers
- November 01, 2024 - Fine-tuning for Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku model in Amazon Bedrock is now generally available
- October 31, 2024 - Unlock the potential of your supply chain data and gain actionable insights with AWS Supply Chain Analytics
- October 31, 2024 - Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is now generally available
- October 30, 2024 - Simplify and enhance Amazon S3 static website hosting with AWS Amplify Hosting
- October 28, 2024 - Celebrating 10 Years of Amazon ECS: Powering a Decade of Containerized Innovation
- October 28, 2024 - AWS Weekly Roundup: New code editor in AWS Lambda console, Amazon Q Business analytics, Claude 3.5 upgrades, and more (October 28, 2024)
- October 23, 2024 - EC2 Image Builder now supports building and testing macOS images
- October 22, 2024 - Upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet from Anthropic (available now), computer use (public beta), and Claude 3.5 Haiku (coming soon) in Amazon Bedrock
- October 21, 2024 - AWS Weekly Roundup: Agentic workflows, Amazon Transcribe, AWS Lambda insights, and more (October 21, 2024)
- October 15, 2024 - Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integrations with Amazon Redshift now generally available
- October 14, 2024 - AWS Weekly Roundup: What's App, AWS Lambda, Load Balancers, AWS Console, and more (Oct 14, 2024).
- October 10, 2024 - Convert AWS console actions to reusable code with AWS Console-to-Code, now generally available
- October 07, 2024 - AWS Weekly Roundup: HIPAA eligible with Amazon Q Business, Amazon DCV, AWS re:Post Agent, and more (Oct 07, 2024)
- October 01, 2024 - NICE DCV is now Amazon DCV with 2024.0 release
- September 30, 2024 - AWS Weekly Roundup: Jamba 1.5 family, Llama 3.2, Amazon EC2 C8g and M8g instances and more (Sep 30, 2024)
- September 25, 2024 - Run your compute-intensive and general purpose workloads sustainably with the new Amazon EC2 C8g, M8g instances
- September 25, 2024 - Introducing Llama 3.2 models from Meta in Amazon Bedrock: A new generation of multimodal vision and lightweight models
- September 23, 2024 - Jamba 1.5 family of models by AI21 Labs is now available in Amazon Bedrock
- September 23, 2024 - AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 X8g Instances, Amazon Q generative SQL for Amazon Redshift, AWS SDK for Swift, and more (Sep 23, 2024)
- September 19, 2024 - AWS named as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service (DaaS)
- September 18, 2024 - Now available: Graviton4-powered memory-optimized Amazon EC2 X8g instances
- September 18, 2024 - Data engineering professional certificate: New hands-on specialization by DeepLearning.AI and AWS
- September 17, 2024 - Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports AWS KMS with customer managed keys
- January 23, 2025 - Issue with AWS Sign-in IAM User Login Flow =E2=80=93 Possible Username Enumeration (CVE-2025-0693)
- January 15, 2025 - Issue with Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon AppStream 2.0, and Amazon DCV - (CVE-2025-0500 and CVE-2025-0501)
- December 24, 2024 - Issue with RedShift JDBC Driver, Python Connector and ODBC Driver - (CVE-2024-12744, CVE-2024-12745, CVE-2024-12746)
- December 11, 2024 - Issue with DynamoDB local - CVE-2022-1471
- November 09, 2024 - Issue with data.all (Multiple CVEs)
- February 17, 2025 - Realizing twelve-factors with the AWS Well-Architected Framework
- February 05, 2025 - Use generative AI on AWS for efficient clinical document analysis
- January 13, 2025 - TVS Supply Chain Solutions built a file transfer platform using AWS Transfer Family for AS2 for B2B collaboration
- December 06, 2024 - Efficient satellite imagery supply with AWS Serverless at BASF Digital Farming Gmb
- December 02, 2024 - Let's Architect! Serverless developer experience in AWS
- October 16, 2024 - Automating multi-AZ high availability for WebLogic administration server with DNS: Part 2
- October 11, 2024 - How CyberArk is streamlining serverless governance by codifying architectural blueprints
- October 04, 2024 - How Banfico built an Open Banking and Payment Services Directive (PSD2) compliance solution on AWS
- September 23, 2024 - AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 X8g Instances, Amazon Q generative SQL for Amazon Redshift, AWS SDK for Swift, and more (Sep 23, 2024)
- September 25, 2024 - Run your compute-intensive and general purpose workloads sustainably with the new Amazon EC2 C8g, M8g instances
- September 25, 2024 - Introducing Llama 3.2 models from Meta in Amazon Bedrock: A new generation of multimodal vision and lightweight models
- September 23, 2024 - Jamba 1.5 family of models by AI21 Labs is now available in Amazon Bedrock
- September 18, 2024 - Hybrid Cloud Journey using Amazon Outposts and AWS Local Zones
- August 07, 2024 - Network perimeter security protections for generative AI
- August 06, 2024 - Spring 2024 SOC 2 report now available in Japanese, Korean, and Spanish
- August 06, 2024 - Hardening the RAG chatbot architecture powered by Amazon Bedrock: Blueprint for secure design and anti-pattern mitigation
- August 05, 2024 - SaaS authentication: Identity management with Amazon Cognito user pools
- August 01, 2024 - Introducing the Maori Data Lens for the Well-Architected Framework
- July 31, 2024 - Let's Architect! Designing Well-Architected systems
- July 19, 2024 - Simplify and automate bill processing with Amazon Bedrock
- February 21, 2025 - From log analysis to rule creation: How AWS Network Firewall automates domain-based security for outbound traffic
- February 07, 2025 - Enhancing telecom security with AWS
- February 06, 2025 - 2024 PiTuKri ISAE 3000 Type II attestation report available with 17 services in scope
- February 06, 2025 - 2024 FINMA ISAE 3000 Type II attestation report available with 179 servicesnin scope
- February 05, 2025 - AWS renews MTCS Level 3 certification under the SS584:2020 standard
- February 05, 2025 - How AWS Network Firewall session state replication maximizes high availability for your application traffic
- February 03, 2025 - Implement effective data authorization mechanisms to secure your data used in generative AI applications - part 2
- January 16, 2025 - Preventing unintended encryption of Amazon S3 objects
- January 14, 2025 - AWS achieves HDS certification for 24 AWS Regions
- January 14, 2025 - How to implement IAM policy checks with Visual Studio Code and IAM Access Analyzer
- January 13, 2025 - AWS re:Invent 2024: Security, identity, and compliance recap
- January 13, 2025 - How to monitor, optimize, and secure Amazon Cognito machine-to-machine authorization
- December 19, 2024 - AWS completes the CCCS PBHVA assessment with 149 services and features in scope
- December 19, 2024 - 2024 ISO and CSA STAR certificates now available with two additional services
- December 19, 2024 - Updated PCI DSS and PCI PIN compliance packages now available
- December 19, 2024 - Fall 2024 SOC 1, 2, and 3 reports now available with 183 services in scope
- December 18, 2024AWS named Leader in the 2024 ISG Provider Lens report for Sovereign Cloud - Infrastructure Services (EU)
- December 16, 2024 - Enforce resource configuration to control access to new features with AWS
- December 16, 2024 - AWS KMS: How many keys do I need?
- December 13, 2024 - Generative AI adoption and compliance: Simplifying the path forward with AWS Audit Manager
- December 12, 2024 - Introducing the AWS Network Firewall CloudWatch Dashboard
- December 11, 2024 - Securing the future: building a culture of security
- December 10, 2024 - Introducing an enhanced version of the AWS Secrets Manager transform:AWS::SecretsManager-2024-09-16
- December 10, 2024 - AWS-LC FIPS 3.0: First cryptographic library to include ML-KEM in FIPS 140-3 validation
- December 06, 2024 - AWS Network Firewall Geographic IP Filtering launch
- December 05, 2024 - AWS post-quantum cryptography migration plan
- December 03, 2024 - Preparing for take-off: Regulatory perspectives on generative AI adoption within Australian financial services
- November 29, 2024 - Exploring the benefits of artificial intelligence while maintaining digital sovereignty
- November 27, 2024 - Federated access to Amazon Athena using AWS IAM Identity Center
- October 31, 2024 - New AWS Secure Builder training available through SANS Institute
- October 28, 2024 - Adding threat detection to custom authentication flow with Amazon Cognito advanced security features
- October 28, 2024 - Spring 2024 PCI DSS and 3DS compliance packages available now
- October 28, 2024 - How to implement trusted identity propagation for applications protected by Amazon Cognito
- October 25, 2024 - How to mitigate bot traffic by implementing Challenge actions in your AWS WAF custom rules
- October 24, 2024 - Amazon identified internet domains abused by APT29
- October 24, 2024 - Exploring digital sovereignty: learning opportunities at re:Invent 2024
- October 22, 2024 - How to use the Amazon Detective API to investigate GuardDuty security findings and enrich data in Security Hub
- October 22, 2024 - How to use interface VPC endpoints to meet your security objectives
- October 21, 2024 - 170 AWS services achieve HITRUST certification
- October 21, 2024 - How to build a Security Guardians program to distribute security ownership
- October 18, 2024 - Options for AWS customers who use Entrust-issued certificates
- October 17, 2024 - An unexpected discovery: Automated reasoning often makes systems more efficient and easier to maintain
- October 10, 2024 - Strengthening security in the era of generative AI: Must-attend sessions at re:Invent 2024
- October 10, 2024 - How AWS uses active defense to help protect customers from security threats
- October 08, 2024 - Improve security incident response times by using AWS Service Catalog to decentralize security notifications
- October 04, 2024 - Summer 2024 SOC 1 report now available in Japanese, Korean, and Spanish
- October 03, 2024 - Customer compliance and security during the post-quantum cryptographic migration
- October 02, 2024 - Enhancing data privacy with layered authorization for Amazon Bedrock Agents
- October 01, 2024 - How to perform a proof of concept for automated discovery using Amazon Macie
- October 01, 2024 - Keep your firewall rules up-to-date with Network Firewall features
- September 30, 2024 - How to implement relationship-based access control with Amazon Verified Permissions and Amazon Neptune
- September 26, 2024 - Let's Architect! Building multi-tenant SaaS systems
- September 25, 2024 - Building a three-tier architecture on a budget
- September 20, 2024 - Automate detection and response to website defacement with Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics
- September 19, 2024 - AWS renews its GNS Portugal certification for classified information with 66 services
- September 18, 2024 - Refine unused access using IAM Access Analyzer recommendations
- September 18, 2024 - Using Amazon Detective for IAM investigations
- September 18, 2024 - Get to know Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring for Amazon EC2
- September 16, 2024 - Methodology for incident response on generative AI workloads
- September 16, 2024 - Create security observability using generative AI with Security Lake and Amazon Q in QuickSight
- September 16, 2024 - Introducing the APRA CPS 230 AWS Workbook for Australian financial services customers
- August 30, 2024 - Automatically replicate your card payment keys across AWS Regions
- August 07, 2024 - Tenant portability: Move tenants across tiers in a SaaS application
- August 05, 2024 - How AWS tracks the cloud's biggest security threats and helps shut them down
- August 02, 2024 - OSPAR 2024 report now available with 163 services in scope
- August 01, 2024 - Federated access to Amazon Athena using AWS IAM Identity Center
- August 01, 2024 - AWS completes the first GDV joint audit with participant insurers in Germany
- July 30, 2024 - How to deploy an Amazon OpenSearch cluster to ingest logs from Amazon Security Lake
- July 29, 2024 - AWS revalidates its AAA Pinakes rating for Spanish financial entities
- July 29, 2024 - Accelerate incident response with Amazon Security Lake - Part 2
- July 15, 2024 - Patterns for consuming custom log sources in Amazon Security Lake
- July 15, 2024 - AWS renews TISAX certification (Information with Very High Protection Needs (AL3)) across 19 regions
- July 15, 2024 - Patterns for consuming custom log sources in Amazon Security Lake
- July 15, 2024 - AWS renews TISAX certification (Information with Very High Protection Needs(AL3)) across 19 regions
- July 10, 2024 - AWS achieves third-party attestation of conformance with the SecureSoftware Development Framework (SSDF)
- July 09, 2024 - Strategies for achieving least privilege at scale - Part 2
- July 09, 2024 - Strategies for achieving least privilege at scale - Part 1
- July 09, 2024 - Top four ways to improve your Security Hub security score
- July 08, 2024 - Context window overflow: Breaking the barrier
- July 08, 2024 - Centrally manage VPC network ACL rules to block unwanted traffic using AWSFirewall Manager
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- 60 Mins - Register for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Primer
AWS Youtube Resources
The official YouTube channel for Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Amazon Web Services offers a complete set of infrastructure and application services that enable you to run virtually everything in the cloud: from enterprise applications and big data projects to social games and mobile apps. Explore how millions of customers — including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies — are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.
Google Cloud Days
- Live weekly training sessions with technical and non-technical topics available through the end of 2024
Google Cloud Days Event Site
FCS Cloud Academy
MongoDB
- 5 Step Guide Atlas Search
- 7 NoSQL Considerations
- Best Practices for Over-The-Air Vehicle Updates
- Data Resilience with MongoDB
- Embedding Generative AI and Advanced Search into your apps with MongoDB Atlas
- Event-Driven Application with MongoDB
- MF MongoDB-Reference Architecture – Mainframe Modernization (Nov22)
- Modernization - What's Taking So Long
- MongoDB Atlas for Government Datasheet
- MongoDB Atlas Search
- MongoDB for Public Sector
- MongoDB Security Datasheet
- Why the Document Data Model
- Introduction to MongoDB - You don’t need a separate database to support transactions, rich search, or Gen AI. The world’s most popular document database is now the world’s most versatile developer data platform. - Learn More About MongoDB
- MongoDB Atlas for Government - The most innovative cloud database service on the market, providing the versatility needed to modernize legacy applications and support the unique requirements and missions of the U.S. Government - in a secure, fully-managed, dedicated FedRAMP authorized environment. - Learn More About MongoDB Atlas for Government
- MongoDB Atlas - An integrated suite of cloud database and data services to accelerate and simplify how you build with data. - Learn More About MongoDB Atlas
- MongoDB Atlas Database - Multi-Cloud database service - The most advanced cloud database service on the market, with unmatched data distribution and mobility across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, built-in automation for resource and workload optimization, and so much more. - Learn More About MongoDB Atlas Database
- MongoDB Atlas Search - Atlas Search is the simplest way to build relevance-based search 4x faster and for 77% lower cost than alternative search solutions. - Learn More About MongoDB Atlas Search
- MongoDB Atlas Vector Search - Build intelligent applications powered by semantic search and generative AI over any type of data using a full-featured vector database. - Learn More About MongoDB Atlas Vector Search
- MongoDB Atlas Stream Processing - Transform building event-driven applications by continuously processing streams of data with a familiar developer experience. - Learn More About MongoDB Atlas Stream Processing
- MongoDB Atlas Platform Tools - Compass is a free interactive tool for querying, optimizing, and analyzing your MongoDB data. Get key insights, drag and drop to build pipelines and more. - Learn More About MongoDB Atlas Platform Tools
- MongoDB Integrations - discover integrations and solutions from MongoDB partners to help you build and run modern applications. - Learn More MongoDB Integrations
- MongoDB Relational Migrator - Accelerate your shift from legacy relational systems to a modern developer data platform. Streamline schema design, code generation and data migration. - Learn More About MongoDB Relational Migrator
- Mainframe Modernization - Modernize key applications from the mainframe to a modern data platform without impacting your core systems. - Learn More About Mainframe Modernizations
- Developer Data Platform - Innovate fast at scale with a developer data platform, an integrated set of database services that share a unified developer experience. - Learn More About Developer Data Platform
Datadog
Datadog Blog
In App Quick Start
DataDog Public Slack
Datadog Support
Datadog Youtube Series
Datadog Foundational Enablement Sessions
Datadog Free Learning Center
Datadog 101: SRE Workshop (in-person)
Tenants should complete courses marked with a (**) as part of tenant Datadog onboarding. Each course includes a sandbox environment to get hands-on experience.
Learners are recommended to start with the Introduction to Datadog course: 4 Hours - Register for Introudction to Datadog Course
- 10 Mins - Register for Understanding Observability**
- 30 mins - Register for Weekly Technical Sessions
- 30 mins - Register for Datadog Learning Center
- 45 Mins - Register for Introduction to Monitoring**
- 1.5 Hours - Register for Tagging Best Practices**
- 1.5 Hours - Register for Building Better Dashboards**
- 2 Hours - Register for Introduction to Application Performance Monitoring**
- 2 Hours - Register for Going Deeper with Log Processing**
- 2 Hours - Register for Introduction to Monitoring Kubernetes**
- 1 Hour - Register for Introduction to Integrations
- 1 Hour - Register for Introduction to Log Management
- 4 Hours - Register for Introduction to Datadog**
Partner Highlights
Zero Trust
- Zero Trust: November 2024
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- Zero Trust: January 2024
- Zero Trust: December 2023
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- Zero Trust: June 2023
AWS
- August 07, 2024 - Tenant portability: Move tenants across tiers in a SaaS application
- August 05, 2024 - How AWS tracks the cloud's biggest security threats and helps shut them down
- August 02, 2024 - OSPAR 2024 report now available with 163 services in scope
- August 01, 2024 - Federated access to Amazon Athena using AWS IAM Identity Center
- August 01, 2024 - AWS completes the first GDV joint audit with participant insurers in Germany
- July 30, 2024 - How to deploy an Amazon OpenSearch cluster to ingest logs from Amazon Security Lake
- July 29, 2024 - AWS revalidates its AAA Pinakes rating for Spanish financial entities
- July 29, 2024 - Accelerate incident response with Amazon Security Lake - Part 2
- July 15, 2024 - Patterns for consuming custom log sources in Amazon Security Lake
- July 15, 2024 - AWS renews TISAX certification (Information with Very High Protection Needs (AL3)) across 19 regions
- July 15, 2024 - Patterns for consuming custom log sources in Amazon Security Lake
- July 15, 2024 - AWS renews TISAX certification (Information with Very High Protection Needs(AL3)) across 19 regions
- July 10, 2024 - AWS achieves third-party attestation of conformance with the SecureSoftware Development Framework (SSDF)
- July 09, 2024 - Strategies for achieving least privilege at scale - Part 2
- July 09, 2024 - Strategies for achieving least privilege at scale - Part 1
- July 09, 2024 - Top four ways to improve your Security Hub security score
- July 08, 2024 - Context window overflow: Breaking the barrier
- July 08, 2024 - Centrally manage VPC network ACL rules to block unwanted traffic using AWSFirewall Manager
AI Learning Path
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AI Learning PathAI & Data Analytics
- AWS - On Demand - AWS re:Invent re:Cap 2024 Slides
- AWS - On Demand - Register for Data Strategy for AI in Federal Government
- AWS - On Demand - Register for Generative AI Essentials for Decision Makers
- Google - On Demand - Register for Building Scalable ML Infrastructure on Google Cloud
- Google - On Demand - Register for Cloud Roadmap Series: AI Innovation
- Microsoft - On Demand - Register for This is AI … for Sustainability
- Opportunities and Insights in the field of Generative AI - IBM - Learn More (Click on the IBM article text or arrow to access the webpage)
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