Welcome to above the clouds
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Projects now allows you to reuse names of previously deleted Projects
Amazon SageMaker Projects now allows you to reuse deleted project names. This launch enhances the project deletion process by removing the project names and metadata instead of only marking them as deleted. This capability is available via SageMaker Projects API, SageMaker Studio, and Amazon SageMaker Python SDK. Customers use SageMaker Projects to preconfigure and bootstrap […]
AWS – AWS Global Accelerator launches new edge location in Cairo, Egypt
AWS Global Accelerator now supports traffic through a new AWS edge location in Cairo, Egypt. With the addition of the edge location, Global Accelerator is now available through 121 Points of Presence globally and supports application endpoints in 29 AWS Regions. AWS Global Accelerator is a service that is designed to improve the availability, security, […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Serverless is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region
Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users, including data analysts, developers, and data scientists, can use Amazon Redshift to get insights from data in seconds. […]
GCP – Your ultimate guide to the latest in generative AI on Vertex AI
The world of generative AI is evolving at a pace that’s nothing short of mind-blowing. It feels like just yesterday we were marveling at AI-generated images, and now we’re having full-fledged conversations with AI chatbots that can write code, craft poetry, and even serve our customers (check out our list of 101 real-world gen AI […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: What you’re missing when you miss out on mWISE Conference
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2024. Today Google Cloud Security’s Peter Bailey talks about our upcoming Mandiant Worldwide Information Security Exchange (mWISE) Conference, and why mWISE can be one of the most valuable events this year for CISOs, security leaders, and those looking to rise through the ranks to attend. As […]
GCP – A Measure of Motive: How Attackers Weaponize Digital Analytics Tools
Adrian McCabe, Ryan Tomcik, Stephen Clement Introduction Digital analytics tools are vital components of the vast domain that is modern cyberspace. From system administrators managing traffic load balancers to marketers and advertisers working to deliver relevant content to their brand’s biggest fan base, tools like link shorteners, location trackers, CAPTCHAs, and digital advertising platforms each […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall introduces GeoIP Filtering to inspect traffic based on geographic location
AWS Network Firewall now supports GeoIP Filtering on ingress and egress Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) traffic. This new feature makes it easy for customers to block traffic coming from or going to specific countries and meet compliance requirements. Previously, maintaining compliance with regulations was time-consuming because you have to maintain a list of IP […]
AWS – Announcing AWS Parallel Computing Service
Today, AWS announces AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS), a new managed service that lets you run and scale high performance computing (HPC) workloads on AWS. The service enables you to build scientific and engineering models, and run simulations using your preferred HPC job scheduler (starting with Slurm). AWS PCS allows you to build complete […]
GCP – Get started with the new generally available features of Gemini in BigQuery
According to Google’s Data and AI Trends Report 2024, 84% of organizations believe that generative AI will expedite their access to insights, and notably 52% of non-technical users are already leveraging generative AI to extract valuable insights. With Google’s Data Cloud, we’re on a mission to bring our decades of research and investments in AI to […]
AWS – AWS announces Amazon-provided contiguous IPv4 blocks
Starting today, customers can provision Amazon-provided contiguous IPv4 blocks using Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM), to simplify network management and security. Customers want to use Amazon-provided contiguous IPv4 blocks in their networking and security constructs like access control lists, route tables, security groups, and firewalls as opposed to using many individual discontiguous public IPv4 […]