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Amazon AppStream 2.0 Adds Simple Network Setup for Internet Access

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now allows you to enable Internet access for your image builder and fleet instances without the need for advanced network configuration. Providing Internet access to your instances allows your applications to access online resources such as application updates and licensing services, and your users to access documents, tutorials, and other information from the Internet.
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Solutions guide: How to secure rendering workloads on GCP

By Adrian Graham, Cloud Solutions Architect

In the world of visual effects, security and content protection is on everyone’s mind. Ensuring the security of intellectual property as it moves through your production pipeline is essential to being awarded jobs from major Hollywood studios. Data must be encrypted at all times, access to resources must be carefully controlled, and any changes must be logged, both on-premises and in the cloud.

Today, we’re happy to present a best practices guide to Securing Rendering Workloads on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This guide, coupled with Google Cloud’s security, core compliance and MPAA best practices, is aimed at visual effects facilities that need to pass security compliance audits. That said, any organization concerned with cloud security will benefit from its recommendations.

This document will evolve along with GCP’s security features. We’ll add and update content as we update and introduce products to help secure your data.

We hope you find this guide useful and concise. Please tell us what you think, and be sure to sign up for a trial at no cost to learn more about securing your workloads on the cloud.
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Amazon Redshift announces query monitoring rules (QMR), a new feature that automates workload management, and a new function to calculate percentiles

You can use the new Amazon Redshift query monitoring rules feature to set metrics-based performance boundaries for workload management (WLM) queues, and specify what action to take when a query goes beyond those boundaries. For example, for a queue that’s dedicated to short running queries, you might create a rule that aborts queries that run for more than 60 seconds. To track poorly designed queries, you might have another rule that logs queries that contain nested loops. We also provide pre-defined rule templates in the Amazon Redshift management console to get you started.
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