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Amazon announced it has established a new Counterfeit Crimes Unit, dedicated to bringing counterfeiters that violate the law and Amazon's policies by listing counterfeit products in its store to justice. Amazon's Counterfeit Crimes Unit is a global, multi-disciplinary team composed of former federal prosecutors, experienced investigators, and data analysts, and will join Amazon's extensive work to drive counterfeit to zero.
Datadog's integration with Amazon EFS for AWS Lambda brings single-click correlation between AWS Lambda and the underlying Elastic File System. "We are excited to see Datadog integrating support for Amazon EFS for AWS Lambda into their serverless monitoring at launch," said Adam Fergus, Manager, DevOps at Fiix.
The first week of June 2020 arrived with a massive 1.44 TBPS distributed denial of service attack, Akamai reveals. While typical DDoS attacks show geographically concentrated traffic, this assault was different, with the traffic being globally distributed.
Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com company, announced the general availability of its sixth generation of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances with three new instances powered by AWS-designed, Arm-based Graviton2 processors. The M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are powered by new AWS-designed, Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors that offer up to 7x more performance, 4x more compute cores, and 5x faster memory than the A1 instances-while also delivering up to 40% better price/performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances.
UK government has published the contracts it holds with private tech firms and the NHS for the creation of a COVID-19 data store, just days after campaigners fired legal shots over a lack of transparency. Campaign groups Foxglove and openDemocracy, which brought the action, said that the documents show the tech firms were set to build data models for commercial purposes from NHS training data before being challenged.
The emails spoof an automated notification from AWS to try to capture Amazon account credentials, according to Abnormal Security. A blog post published Wednesday by security provider Abnormal Security describes how phishing attacks are taking advantage of Amazon Web Services to steal user credentials.
Sysdig added support for AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, AWS Application Load Balancer, AWS Elastic Load Balancer, and Amazon Simple Storage Service to PromCat.io, the company's free repository of curated Prometheus compatibility options. In supporting five more AWS services, Sysdig realized the need for a production-grade Prometheus exporter for Amazon CloudWatch.
New Amazon Macie service optimizations enable customers to discover and protect their sensitive data in AWS at an 80% or greater discount compared to previous pricing. Amazon Macie reduces this burden by providing a scalable and cost-efficient service that helps customers more easily discover and protect their sensitive data in AWS. Once enabled with one click in the AWS Management Console, Amazon Macie automatically provides customers with a full inventory of their Amazon S3 buckets.
Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com company, announced the general availability of Amazon Kendra, a highly accurate and easy to use enterprise search service powered by machine learning. Businesses can use Amazon Kendra to search internal documents spread across portals and wikis, research organizations can create a searchable archive of experiments and notes, and contact centers can use Amazon Kendra to find the right answer to customer questions across the complete library of support documentation.
Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com company, announced the general availability of UltraWarm for Amazon Elasticsearch Service, a new, highly performant, fully managed, low-cost warm storage tier that provides fast, interactive analytics of log data at one-tenth the cost of existing storage options. UltraWarm for Amazon Elasticsearch Service gives Elasticsearch customers a warm storage tier that both stores large amounts of data cost-effectively and provides the type of snappy, interactive experience that Elasticsearch customers expect.