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Amazon EBS Gp3 volumes: Next-generation general purpose SSD volumes for Amazon EBS give customers the flexibility to provision additional IOPS and throughput without needing to add additional storage, while also offering higher baseline performance of 3,000 IOPS and 125 MB/second of throughput with the ability to provision up to 16,000 IOPS and 1,000 MB/second peak throughput at a 20% lower price per GB of storage than existing Gp2 volumes. With Gp2 volumes, performance scales up with storage capacity, so customers can get higher IOPS and throughput for their applications by provisioning a larger storage volume size.
Amazon Web Services announced three new analytics capabilities that dramatically improve the performance of Amazon Redshift data warehouses, make it significantly easier for customers to move and combine data across data stores, and make it much simpler for end-users to get more value from their business data using machine learning. AWS customers use a wide variety of analytics tools for different use cases, including Amazon Athena for serverless querying, Amazon Elasticsearch Service for searching and visualizing log data, Amazon Kinesis for processing real-time data streams, Amazon Redshift for data warehousing, and Amazon EMR for running Apache Spark, Hive, Presto, and other big data frameworks.
Amazon Web Services announced five new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances, two new AWS Outposts form factors, and three new AWS Local Zones locations that extend its lead in offering the broadest and deepest portfolio of compute offerings in the cloud. AWS already has more compute instance types than any other cloud provider, with instances based on the fastest processors from Intel, cost-optimized instances with AMD processors, the most powerful GPU instances from NVIDIA, instances that feature up to 400 Gbps networking performance, and the only Arm-based instances in the cloud offering customers 40% better price performance with AWS-designed AWS Graviton2 processors.
PagerDuty is one of four Amazon DevOpsGuru Launch Partners, further extending its longstanding relationship with AWS. Through this new integration, PagerDuty will automatically ingest observability data from Amazon DevOps Guru. PagerDuty consolidates these digital health signals and alerts, and uses AIOps to contextualize and filter out the noise so teams can remediate issues in real-time, and customers can ensure critical business services get delivered.
Built on Mac mini computers, EC2 Mac instances enable customers to run on-demand macOS workloads in the AWS cloud for the first time ever, extending the flexibility, scalability, and cost benefits of AWS to all Apple developers. Similar to other Amazon EC2 instances, customers can easily use EC2 Mac instances together with AWS services and features like Amazon Virtual Private Cloud for network security, Amazon Elastic Block Storage for expandable storage, Amazon Elastic Load Balancer for distributing build queues, and Amazon Machine Images for OS image orchestration.
Amazon Web Services and BlackBerry announced a multi-year, global agreement to develop and market BlackBerry's Intelligent Vehicle Data Platform, IVY. BlackBerry IVY is a scalable, cloud-connected software platform that will allow automakers to provide a consistent and secure way to read vehicle sensor data, normalize it, and create actionable insights from that data both locally in the vehicle and in the cloud. BlackBerry IVY will support multiple vehicle operating systems and multi-cloud deployments in order to ensure compatibility across vehicle models and brands.
Amazon Web Services announced that Zoom has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider. AWS and Zoom are collaborating to develop new solutions for Zoom's enterprise users, leveraging the breadth and depth of AWS to integrate Zoom services with Amazon devices and capabilities to make it easier for organizations to run hybrid office and remote work models.
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Kali Linux 2020.4 released: New default shell, fresh tools, and more!Offensive Security has released Kali Linux 2020.4, the latest version of its popular open source penetration testing platform. Critical vulnerabilities in Cisco Security Manager fixed, researcher discloses PoCsCisco has patched two vulnerabilities in its Cisco Security Manager solution, both of which could allow unauthenticated, remote attackers to gain access to sensitive information on an affected system.
Announced last month, MVISION CNAPP is a new McAfee security service that combines Cloud Security Posture Management, Cloud Workload Protection Platform, and application and data security into one solution. CNAPP integrates with several AWS deployment services such as AWS Systems Manager and AWS PrivateLink to make deployment easier and more secure, as well as security services like AWS Security Hub with broader workload and data context for enhanced security.