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GCP – Helping our partners co-market faster with AI
At Google Cloud, we’re deeply invested in making AI helpful to organizations everywhere — not just for our valued customers, but for our equally important partners. Today, we’re thrilled to introduce a significant leap forward in how we enable our partners to co-market with us: Gemini-powered content creation within Partner Marketing Studio. These AI features […]
GCP – How we improved GKE volume attachments for stateful applications by up to 80%
If you run stateful workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), you may have noticed that your Cluster upgrades execute much faster as of late. You’re not imagining things. We recently introduced an enhancement to GKE and Google Compute Engine that significantly improves the speed at which Persistent Disks (PDs) are attached and detached. This means […]
AWS – AWS Batch launches new features for access control and management of AWS Batch on EKS workloads
AWS Batch on EKS now supports configurable Kubernetes namespaces, Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs), subPath to Kubernetes pod container volumes, and Kubernetes pod annotations. Using different Kubernetes namespaces for your AWS Batch jobs, you can improve workload isolation by defining job permission boundaries both within EKS cluster and for access to other AWS services. With Kubernetes […]
GCP – Announcing partner-delivered professional services on Google Cloud Marketplace
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AWS – Amazon EC2 now supports automated recovery of Microsoft SQL Server with VSS
Amazon EC2 now supports automated recovery of Microsoft SQL Server databases from Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) based EBS snapshots. Customers can use an AWS Systems Manager Automation Runbook and specify a restore point of time to automate the recovery process without needing to stop a running Microsoft SQL Server database. Volume Shadow Copy Services […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now supports configuration of which states an agent can be in when adhering to their schedule
Amazon Connect now provides the ability to choose which states an agent can be in when adhering to their schedule, making it easier for you to customize adherence tracking to match your unique operational needs. With this launch, you can now define custom mappings between agent statuses and schedule activities. For example, schedule activity “Work” […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports new minor version in December 2024
A new minor version of Microsoft SQL Server is now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, providing performance enhancements and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports this latest minor version of SQL Server 2019 across the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. We encourage you to upgrade your Amazon RDS for […]
AWS – AWS CodeBuild now integrates with Buildkite
AWS CodeBuild now offers native support for self-hosted Buildkite runners, enabling you to execute Buildkite pipeline jobs within the CodeBuild environment. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. Buildkite is a continuous integration and continuous delivery platform. With this feature, […]
GCP – CVE-2023-6080: A Case Study on Third-Party Installer Abuse
Written By: Jacob Paullus, Daniel McNamara, Jake Rawlins, Steven Karschnia Executive Summary Mandiant exploited flaws in the Microsoft Software Installer (MSI) repair action of Lakeside Software’s SysTrack installer to obtain arbitrary code execution. An attacker with low-privilege access to a system running the vulnerable version of SysTrack could escalate privileges locally. Mandiant responsibly disclosed this […]
AWS – Q in QuickSight Dashboard Q&A
Dashboard Q&A by Amazon Q in QuickSight enables QuickSight Authors to add Data Q&A to their dashboards in one-click. With dashboard Q&A, QuickSight users can ask and answer questions about their data using natural language. Dashboard Q&A capabilities of Q in QuickSight automatically extract semantic information presented in dashboards and use it to enable Q&A […]