Amazon Cognito Now Supported by AWS CloudFormation

Starting today you can provision Amazon Cognito resources using AWS CloudFormation. Quelle: aws.amazon.com

A First Look At Elon Musk's Plan To Beat Traffic By Digging High-Speed Underground Tunnels

Elon Musk, billionaire founder of Tesla, Solar City, and SpaceX, has a new enterprise: "The Boring Company."Literally. He announced back in January that he was going to make a company that drills tunnels for cars underground. Most people thought he was joking when he tweeted about the idea in December…

AWS CloudFormation adds support for Amazon Cognito, EBS Elastic Volumes and updates resource coverage

CloudFormation updated support for new resources: AWS::Cognito::IdentityPool Create an Amazon Cognito identity pool. AWS::Cognito::IdentityPoolRoleAttachment Manage the role configuration for an Amazon Cognito identity pool. AWS::Cognito::UserPool Create an Amazon Cognito user pool. AWS::Cognito::UserPoolClient Create an Amazon Cognito user pool client. AWS::Cognito::UserPoolGroup Create a user group in an Amazon Cognito user pool.…

Amazon QuickSight now supports audit logging with AWS CloudTrail

Starting today, Amazon QuickSight customers can log user actions within their QuickSight accounts using AWS CloudTrail for governance, compliance and auditing purposes. With this feature, customers can continuously log, monitor and retain events associated with Amazon QuickSight, and answer questions on Who, When and What with regards to data access…

Uber To Court: Waymo Is Looking For “A Red Herring”

A self-driving Uber Ford Fusion in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Jeff Swensen / Getty Images Uber's legal battle with Waymo over of self-driving car technology is growing increasingly more heated by the day. In a Friday court filing, the ride-hail giant dismissed Waymo's allegation that it had intentionally concealed a secret, second…

ASP.NET on OpenShift part 5: Models in the MVC

PART 5 – Models: As we’ve been seeing in this series so far, MVC stands for Model-View-Controller. In the first two parts, I talked about the Controller. In the last two parts, we went over Views and putting your project on OpenShift. In this fifth and final part of the…

[Video Tour] Openshift Monitoring Tools with Sysdig

In previous blog posts we dove into the specifics of how to monitor OpenShift – so now it’s time to sit back and enjoy the show. We wanted to show you what a state-of-the art OpenShift monitoring tool looks like, using Sysdig OpenShift Monitoring as an example. In this short…

Updates to Presto, Apache Zeppelin, Apache Flink, and Hue now available on Amazon EMR release 5.5.0

You can now use upgraded versions of Presto (0.170), Apache Zeppelin (0.7.1), and Hue (3.12.0) on Amazon EMR release 5.5.0. Presto 0.170 includes support for LDAP authentication and various improvements and bug fixes. Hue 3.12.0 adds new features to the SQL editor, timeline and pivot graphing for visualization, and email…

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Introduces Server-Side Encryption for Queues

You can now use Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) to exchange sensitive data between applications using server-side encryption (SSE) integrated with the AWS Key Management Service (KMS). Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service for reliably communicating between distributed software components and microservices – at any scale. You…

5 Ways Scammers Exploit Facebook To Feed You False Information

Fake profiles, fake likes, fake content. Facebook's security team yesterday released a white paper that outlines some of the techniques that malicious people and entities use to manipulate information on the platform. In some cases, governments and non-state actors try to influence public opinion. In other cases, scammers and spammers…