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Amazon VGT2 Las Vegas
More Info As public sector agencies increasingly migrate essential workloads and applications to the cloud, we strive to enhance our support for them by providing the necessary tools and services that align with their organizational goals. In collaboration with SAP National Security Solutions, Inc. (SAP NSS), an AWS Government Competency Partner recognized for its AWS…
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Continuous Vulnerability Scanning for AWS Lambda Functions with Amazon Inspector
More Info In this post, we will explore how to enable Amazon Inspector across one or more AWS accounts and receive alerts when vulnerabilities are detected in AWS Lambda functions. Amazon Inspector is an automated service that manages vulnerabilities by continuously scanning workloads for software weaknesses and unintended network exposure. It can assess various workloads,…
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Amazon IXD – VGT2 Las Vegas
More Info Elevating cybersecurity awareness begins with education. In an effort to enhance this initiative, Amazon has made its internal Cybersecurity Awareness Training Program available to businesses and individuals at no cost starting this month. This training mirrors the annual program provided to Amazon employees, aimed at equipping them with knowledge to better understand and…
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Amazon VGT2 Las Vegas
More Info Many organizations utilize AWS Snowball Edge devices for secure data transfer and edge computing solutions. Recently, AWS announced the integration of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) with Snowball Edge. Prior to this enhancement, IT administrators had to share a single access key and secret key with all users needing to copy files…
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Amazon VGT2 Las Vegas Blog
More Info In recent developments, Smartsheet has announced that its Gov platform has successfully secured a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Provisional Authority to Operate (P-ATO). This achievement allows federal agencies to enhance their operational efficiency by using Smartsheet Gov, which is built on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud (US). The Joint…
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Amazon VGT2 Las Vegas Blog
Canadian Federal Government Engages AWS Partners for Cloud Services More Info Shared Services Canada (SSC) serves as the primary IT service provider for the Canadian federal government, offering infrastructure services related to email, data centers, telecommunications, and workplace technology for 43 federal agencies. Currently, SSC operates around 700 data centers that host approximately 14,000 applications.…
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Recap of Amazon Redshift Key Product Announcements in 2024 More Info Amazon Redshift achieved remarkable advancements in 2024, boosting price-performance, enabling innovative data lakehouse architectures by merging the functionalities of data lakes and data warehouses, streamlining data ingestion processes, and facilitating near real-time analytics. Additionally, it integrated generative AI capabilities to empower the development of…
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Establishing a Text Summarization Initiative Using Hugging Face Transformers: Part 1
More Info When OpenAI unveiled their third-generation machine learning (ML) model focused on text generation in July 2020, it was clear something significant had changed. This model resonated with a wider audience than any prior version. I began to hear friends and colleagues, who typically show little interest in technological advancements, discussing it. Even mainstream…
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Simulating Site-to-Site VPN Customer Gateways Using strongSwan: Certificate-Based Authentication – Part 2
More Info Are you looking to enhance your knowledge or demonstrate the implementation of certificate-based authentication with AWS Site-to-Site VPN capabilities? In the first installment of this series, we detailed how to utilize an AWS CloudFormation template to deploy the open-source strongSwan VPN solution, effectively representing the on-premises aspect of an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection.…
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UAE Mars Mission Utilizes AWS for Scientific Breakthroughs More Info On February 9, a groundbreaking achievement took place as an uncrewed spacecraft known as the Hope Probe successfully entered orbit around Mars. This mission, spearheaded by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), marks the UAE’s inaugural interplanetary venture, making it the fifth nation to…