Starting today, Amazon QuickSight customers can now connect to Amazon Athena, our serverless, interactive query engine to analyze and visualize their data in Amazon S3 hosted in the EU (Ireland) Region. With this release, you can also use Count Distinct on your dimensions and metrics in the visualizations as well as aggregate date fields by week for SPICE data sets.
Amazon Inspector and Amazon EC2 Systems Manager are now HIPAA eligible services. You can now run Amazon Inspector on your EC2 instances that contain protected health information (PHI) and use Systems Manager to manage the infrastructure that contains PHI data.
AWS CloudTrail now enables you to download CloudTrail account activity history from within the CloudTrail console. Previously, you could only analyze or share account activity offline by using the CloudTrail LookupEvents API, copying and pasting relevant information directly from the CloudTrail console, or searching the CloudTrail S3 bucket for the correct log files. Now, you can download your account activity to a CSV or JSON formatted file. You can use the downloaded files to analyze account activity with 3rd party tools or to backup and store activity history offline. Please visit AWS CloudTrail documentation page for more information.
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Analysis The chair of Australia's .au internet registry has resigned just days before a vote of no confidence in his leadership.…
You can now provision and manage resources for Amazon Kinesis Analytics applications using AWS CloudFormation. With AWS CloudFormation, you can easily provision and update a set of related AWS resources in an orderly and predictable fashion.
We are excited to announce that CloudWatch Events has increased following limits.
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Analysis A campaign to convince the Slovakian government to halt the sale of the .sk registry has nothing to do with money or politics, it is claimed.…
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows customers to create a new default VPC directly from the console or by using the CLI. With this release, customers no longer need to contact AWS support if the default VPC has been deleted, as they can create a new default VPC by using this self-service feature. Customers can also take remedial actions against accidental deletion of default VPCs, by automating creation of a new default VPC using the API.
AWS CodePipeline is Now Available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Regions.
Amazon Inspector is excited to announce the launch of Assessment Events. Through an integration with Amazon CloudWatch Events, customers can now create events that automatically trigger Amazon Inspector assessments to run against your environments. Within Amazon CloudWatch Events, you can now create event rules that target your Amazon Inspector assessment templates. When that CloudWatch Event occurs, Amazon Inspector will automatically be notified to run the specified assessment.
A slip in certificate handling is one of three bugs in Cisco's Autonomic Networking software.…
We are excited to announce that CloudWatch now supports High-Resolution Custom Metrics and Alarms, enabling you to monitor custom applications and infrastructure in near real-time, down to per-second resolution.
AWS Config now provides a dashboard with a summarized view of resources in your account. With the AWS Config Dashboard, you can view the total number of resources being recorded in your account and the count of resources by type to easily access the configuration history of a resource. You can also quickly spot the number of resources that are non-compliant with your Config rules in each region, view the Config rules with the most non-compliant resources, and drill down to view the resources that are non-compliant with a particular Config rule.
Amazon WorkDocs is now HIPAA eligible and is PCI DSS compliant. If you have an executed Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS), you can now use Amazon WorkDocs for HIPAA-compliant file storage and collaboration, including files that contain protected health information (PHI). With PCI DSS compliance, you can now use Amazon WorkDocs to store and collaborate on files that contain sensitive card holder data (CHD).
The mere mention of Virgin Media's chief exec Tom Mockridge is enough to trigger the profanity filter in the firm's customer forum, El Reg has discovered.…
Currys PC World has been ordered not to "exaggerate the capability" of its Knowhow Cloud backup after an aggrieved buyer found out the hard way that he had to restore each individual file one by one.…
O2 has admitted to deliberately throttling its network as a "temporary measure" to combat the demand of Brits using free data roaming abroad.…
We all know cloud is evolving fast, but IBM's just given us the downside of that speed: a service it switched on in December 2015 will be switched off in August 2017.…
