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GCP – Boost your Looker Studio Pro skills with new on-demand course from Google Cloud
Your business data sets you apart from the competition. It fuels your innovations, your culture, and provides all your employees a foundation from which to build and explore. Since 2022, enterprises in all industries have turned to Looker Studio Pro to empower their businesses with self-service dashboards and AI-driven visualizations and insights, complete with advanced […]
GCP – Google Cloud first CSP to join BRC, MFG-ISAC, and affiliates to advance security
The AI phase of industrial evolution is marked by a profound transformation in how humans and intelligent machines collaborate. The blurring of boundaries between physical and digital systems across the manufacturing landscape is accelerating, driven by advancements in automation, robotics, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things. This interconnectedness creates unprecedented opportunities for efficiency, innovation, […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M7i-flex & M7i instances now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i-flex and M7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. M7i-flex […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker AI announces availability of P5e and G6e instances for Inference
We are pleased to announce general availability of inference optimized G6e instances (powered by NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs) and P5e (powered by NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs) on Amazon SageMaker. With 1128 GB of high bandwidth GPU memory across 8 NVIDIA H200 GPUs, 30 TB of local NVMe SSD storage, 192 vCPUs, and 2 […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub now supports PCI DSS v4.0.1 standard
AWS Security Hub now supports automated security checks aligned to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) v4.0.1. PCI DSS is a compliance framework that provides a set of rules and guidelines for safely handling credit and debit card information. PCI DSS standard in Security Hub provides a set of AWS security best […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now supports push notifications for mobile chat
Amazon Connect now supports push notifications for mobile chat on iOS and Android devices, improving the customer experience and enabling faster issue resolution. Amazon Connect makes it easy to offer mobile chat experiences using the Amazon Connect Chat SDKs or a webview solution using the communications widget. Now, with built-in push notifications enabled for mobile […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) region
Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region, enabling customers to deploy essential network protections for all their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). AWS Network Firewall is a managed firewall service that is easy to deploy. The service automatically scales with network traffic volume to provide high-availability protections without […]
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports User-Defined Types in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that offers 99.999% availability. Today, Amazon Keyspaces added support for Cassandra’s User Defined Types (UDTs) in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. With support for UDTs, you can continue using any custom data types […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 R8g instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big […]
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) announces frozen collections in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that offers 99.999% availability. Today, Amazon Keyspaces added support for frozen collections in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. With support for frozen collections, the primary keys in your tables can contain collections, allowing you […]