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GCP – 5 ways Chrome Enterprise enhances Windows 11 environments
With Windows 10 end of life on the horizon, many businesses are getting more familiar with Windows 11. While your organization might be migrating, or perhaps has already migrated, to the latest Windows OS, many of your users might still prefer the familiarity and ease of Chrome as they spend more time working on the […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Automation enhances runbook execution control and updates free tier
AWS Systems Manager Automation now offers three new features that enhance runbook execution control and success rates. Additionally, we are announcing updates to our free tier structure, as part of our ongoing commitment to providing simple, standardized, and cost-effective services to customers. There are three key features added. First, customers can now easily re-execute runbooks […]
AWS – AWS Config now supports 10 new resource types
AWS Config now supports 10 additional AWS resource types. This expansion provides greater coverage over your AWS environment, enabling you to more effectively discover, assess, audit, and remediate an even broader range of resources. With this launch, if you have enabled recording for all resource types, then AWS Config will automatically track these new additions. […]
AWS – Amazon Braket introduces support for program sets
Amazon Braket now supports program sets, enabling quantum researchers to run complex workloads requiring hundreds of quantum circuit executions up to 24X faster. This new feature allows customers to submit up to 100 quantum programs or a single parametric circuit with up to 100 parameter values within a single quantum task. Program sets help minimize […]
AWS – Amazon Q Business launches Agentic RAG to enhance accuracy and explainability
Amazon Q Business, the generative AI-powered assistant for finding information, gaining insight, and taking action at work, today introduced Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for Q Business applications. The new feature significantly enhances the ability of Q Business to provide more accurate and explainable responses to complex, multi-step RAG queries. Using Agentic RAG, Q Business uses […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M8g instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 M8g instances are built for general-purpose workloads, such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, […]
AWS – AWS Security Incident Response now supports membership coverage for individual AWS organizational units
AWS Security Incident Response now allows you to choose membership coverage for specific AWS organizational units (OUs) within an AWS Organization. While memberships previously covered all accounts in the selected AWS Organization, you now have the flexibility to choose which OUs to cover making it easier to try out the service and support your existing […]
GCP – Uber’s modern edge: A new approach to network performance and efficiency
Picture this: You’re ordering an Uber in Lisbon, but your request takes a scenic tour through Madrid, London, and Virginia before confirming your ride. That was the case for millions of users until Uber and Google Cloud set out on an even bigger journey: redesigning how global edge networks should work. Operating across six continents, […]
AWS – Announcing expanded support for Cilium with Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes
Today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) expands support for Cilium as the Container Networking Interface (CNI) for Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes. Cilium is a Cloud-Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) graduated project that provides core networking capabilities for Kubernetes workloads. Now, you can receive support from AWS for a broader set of Cilium features when using […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports trusted identity propagation
We are excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports trusted identity propagation (TIP), enabling admins to trace actions taken in SageMaker Studio back to a human user. It also enables administrators to manage permissions based on user identity to AWS Lake Formation and Amazon S3 Access Grants. Starting today, SageMaker Studio now supports trusted identity […]