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Ping Identity, the Intelligent Identity solution for the enterprise, announced the availability of its Workforce Identity Solutions in AWS Marketplace. With AWS Marketplace availability, Amazon Web Services enterprise customers can now quickly procure and deploy all of Ping's Workforce Identity Solutions to empower employees to work virtually from anywhere, while providing a centralized authentication service to access their AWS infrastructure.
Hundreds of thousands of sensitive dating app profiles - including images of "a graphic, sexual nature" - were exposed online for anyone stumbling across them to download. Word of the uncontrolled emission burst forth from vpnMentor this week, which claims it found a misconfigured AWS S3 bucket containing 845GB of private dating app records. "Aside from exposing potentially millions of users of the apps to danger, the breach also exposed the various apps' entire AWS infrastructure through unsecured admin credentials and passwords," vpnMentor's researchers wrote.
EGlobalTech, A Tetra Tech Company, announced the launch of "Jmpr," a new software product which considerably simplifies Amazon Web Services user and permission management. AWS developers who have multiple accounts with different permissions, requiring repeated separate logins per day to complete required tasks.
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.
Privo will expand and enhance Navisite's AWS and cloud services with a broad range of capabilities, from cloud assessment and planning through migration, cost optimization and managed DevOps. "Privo's strong market reputation as an APN Premier Consulting Partner and highly skilled, certified experts are the perfect complement to our AWS practice and overall managed cloud service portfolio," said Mark Clayman, CEO at Navisite.
An Amazon Web Services cloud storage bucket that was left open to the public internet has exposed thousands of Joomla users' personal information. About 2,700 individuals who signed up to use the Joomla Resources Directory - a community forum for finding developers and service providers specialized in the Joomla content management system - had their information exposed.
An unprotected Amazon Web Services S3 bucket exposed the details of 2,700 users who signed up for the Joomla Resources Directory, Joomla's Incident Response Task Group reported last week. An internal website audit revealed that a third-party company owned by a former leader of the Joomla Resource Directory team - they are still a member of the JRD team - stored full JRD backups in an AWS S3 bucket.
Unravel Data announced Unravel for AWS Databricks, a solution to deliver comprehensive monitoring, troubleshooting, and application performance management for AWS Databricks environments. "Unravel for AWS is our latest effort to expand the platform to accommodate Big Data wherever it exists. With this addition, Unravel now supports Databricks in both AWS and Azure, and the Unravel platform is broadly available in every major public cloud as well as on-premises and in hybrid settings. We were always committed to being infrastructure-agnostic and this is another milestone in that mission."
InterSystems, a creative data technology provider dedicated to helping customers solve the most critical scalability, interoperability, and speed problems, now supports AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 M6g instances for InterSystems IRIS data platform and InterSystems IRIS for Health customers. In benchmarks with InterSystems IRIS, the new AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 M6g instances offered up to 28% higher performance at a 20% lower infrastructure cost compared with similar-sized instances.
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.