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AWS – Now consistently deploy Alert Logic MDR Agent across EC2 and On-Premises instances using AWS Systems Manager
Distributor, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, allows you to select from available third-party agents to install and manage on your instances. With this launch, you can deploy the pre-built Alert Logic Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Agent directly from Distributor to your EC2 or on-premises instances without having to create or maintain any software […]

AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now supports the latest versions and to bring your own subscription (BYOS) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
AWS Launch Wizard now allows you to deploy SAP on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.7 and 7.9 versions. This allows you to take advantage of the latest RHEL operating system (OS) versions to support your SAP systems running on AWS. Additionally, with this launch, you can bring existing RHEL subscriptions to support new SAP […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now provides Confusion Matrix and additional new insights for classification problems.
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains, and tunes the best machine learning models based on your data, while allowing you to maintain full control and visibility. Starting today, SageMaker Autopilot provides new metrics and reports that provide you better visibility into model performance for classification problems. You can leverage these metrics to gather more insights about […]

AWS – Amazon VPC now supports an AWS-managed prefix list for Amazon CloudFront
Starting today, you can use the AWS managed prefix list for Amazon CloudFront to limit the inbound HTTP/HTTPS traffic to your origins from only the IP addresses that belong to CloudFront’s origin-facing servers. CloudFront keeps the managed prefix list up-to-date with the IP addresses of CloudFront’s origin-facing servers, so you no longer have to maintain […]

GCP – Celebrating National Muffin Day with machine learning
If you’re here you’re probably wondering: what on Earth is the connection between muffins and machine learning, and what is National Muffin Day? To understand this, let’s start with National Muffin Day: an annual holiday started by Jacob in 2015 to bake muffins and raise money for homelessness. National Muffin Day will occur on Sunday, […]

AWS – AWS announces geolocation enrichment for Amazon Fraud Detector Models
We are excited to announce the launch of a new geolocation enrichment feature for Amazon Fraud Detector machine learning (ML) models that automatically calculates the distance between the IP address, billing address, and shipping address provided for an event. This helps you to prevent more fraud, particularly when a user attempts to create an account […]

AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) R6g and T4g instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), South America (Sao Paulo), and Europe (Paris) Regions
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally Available: Search results page improvements in Azure IoT Central
Filtering and highlighting matched values have been added to IoT Central search results allowing for richer search experience. Read More for the details.

GCP – Five ways to stop automated website attacks with reCAPTCHA Enterprise
Automated website attacks have become a staple of cybercrime, with bots serving as one of the easiest ways a bad actor can threaten websites. Bots can be used to steal sensitive information and money, or they can shut a website down entirely. Bots are being used to threaten all types of online activity each day […]
GCP – Know more, spend less: how GKE cost optimization insights help you optimize Kubernetes
If there’s one thing we learned talking to Kubernetes users, it’s that optimizing for reliability, performance, and cost efficiency is hard — especially at scale. That is why, not long ago, we released GKE cost optimization insights in preview, a tab within the Google Cloud Console that helps you discover optimization opportunities at scale, across […]