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Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com company, announced Amazon Honeycode, a fully managed service that allows customers to quickly build powerful mobile and web applications - with no programming required. Amazon Honeycode does all of this under the covers by automating the process of building and linking the three tiers of functionality found in most business applications, and then deploying fully interactive web and mobile applications to end users so customers can focus on creating great applications without having to worry about writing code or scaling infrastructure.
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.
Today, customers use the AWS Snow Family to collect and process data, run local computing applications, and move large volumes of data from log files, digital media, genomic data, and sensor data from connected devices to AWS. As customers seek to extend the reach of their cloud infrastructure into more edge locations, new use cases are emerging for edge computing in more situations like vehicles, industrial operations, and remote and austere sites that require a rugged and secure device with even greater portability and a smaller form factor than the AWS Snow Family of devices has traditionally provided. AWS Snowcone provides maximum flexibility for edge computing environments, offering a small, ultra-portable, rugged, and military grade secure device to run applications and migrate data to AWS. AWS Snowcone measures 9 inches x 6 inches x 3 inches and weighs 4.5 lbs.
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.