AWS

AWS – Route 53 now allows you to enable DNSSEC

You already know AWS Route 53, the Domain Name Service (DNS) service. Well, good news, you can now enable DNSSEC for your hosted zone. To enable DNSSEC, logon to your AWS console (https://console.aws.amazon.com/) and access the Route 53 service Then access the Hosted zones management blade to access the hosted zone you want to enable […]

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AWS/Azure AD – You use Azure AD for authentication when accessing AWS

As many customer, you may be running resources on multiple cloud providers, like Azure and AWS. You can now use Azure AD (and the additional AAD capabilities like conditional access and/or MFA) for authentication when accessing AWS console. With this integration you will also be able to provision AWS roles to your Azure AD. The

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AWS – You can now run a MacOS on your EC2 instance

If you ever dreamed about running  MacOS on a cloud virtual machine (to be honest I don’t ), AWS just delivered to you an early Christmas gift. You can now run a MacOS virtual machine on your EC2 instance. This new capability is powered by Mac Mini (see https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/), running on Mac OS 10.4 (Mojave)

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AWS – You can now use Instance Scheduler to configure automatic start and stop of your EC2 instances

As you know, running workloads on cloud services requires to implement cost management and optimization to not get nasty surprises with your consumption bills. One of the solution applicable to your virtual machines is to automatically start and stop them to match your business need. To start using AWS Instance Scheduler with your EC2 instances,

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AWS – You can now set data owner on your S3 bucket

As you know AWS S3 Bucket is used to stored data in a cloud storage container. While you can define S3 bucket owner, it was difficult to then assign and identify stored data ownership. Well, now you can automatically apply ownership to stored data based on the S3 bucket ownership. To do so, logon to

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AWS – Reduce bad surprises with AWS Cost Anomaly Detection

One important part of running resources on cloud services is the cost management. The problem with cost management is to be able to be proactive as quickly as possible when the cost is increasing unexpectedly. Well, AWS is going to help you by identifying cost anomaly based on your usage pattern of the resources. The

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AWS – You can now manage your PO’s for your AWS invoice

With cloud services, you have the ability to buy resources and/or services directly from your management portal. That said, it has been always complicated to then match up ordered resources with your internal purchase orders (POs). Well, now you can reconciliate these when using Amazon Web Services by accessing your AWS Billing and Cost Management

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AWS – Elastic File Service are now automatically backup during the file system creation

Starting now, any new AWS Elastic File Service (EFS) file system are automatically backup with recommended settings (daily backups with a retention of 35 days) during the creation process. You can turn off the backup if you want by accessing the Customize option.  

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AWS – EC2 Image Builder is now able to stream logs to CloudWatch

As you know, AWS EC2 Image Builder is an AWS service letting you automate the creation and deployment of golden image on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2). Well, to help you troubleshoot building, customization and deployment of EC2 image, you can now stream the logs in CloudWatch. This option is enabled by default. If you

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