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GCP – Announcing Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Anthropic’s first hybrid reasoning model, is available on Vertex AI
Today, we’re announcing Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Anthropic’s most intelligent model to date and the first hybrid reasoning model on the market, is available in preview on Vertex AI Model Garden. Claude 3.7 Sonnet can produce quick responses or extended, step-by-step thinking that is made visible to the user. Claude 3.7 Sonnet includes improvements in coding, […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C7gd instances are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. These Graviton3-based instances with DDR5 memory are built on the AWS Nitro System and are a great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low […]
AWS – AWS WAF enhances integration with Service Quotas
AWS WAF enhances Service Quotas capabilities, enabling organizations to proactively monitor and manage quotas for their cloud deployments. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications or APIs against common web exploits and bots that may affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. By leveraging AWS Service Quotas, you […]
AWS – Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet is now available in Amazon Bedrock
Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet hybrid reasoning model, their most intelligent model to date, is now available in Amazon Bedrock. Claude 3.7 Sonnet represents a significant advancement in AI capabilities, offering both quick responses and extended, step-by-step thinking made visible to the user. This new model includes strong improvements in coding and brings enhanced performance across […]
AWS – Amazon Verified Permissions now supports the Cedar JSON entity format
Amazon Verified Permissions now supports the same JSON format for entity and context data, as the Cedar SDK. Developers can use this simpler format for authorization requests. This aligns the Amazon Verified Permissions API more closely with the open source Cedar SDK, and simplifies moving from the SDK to Amazon Verified Permissions or vice versa. […]
GCP – How partners are unlocking scalable audio transcription with Gemini
From transcribing customer calls and meetings, to analyzing research interviews and creating accessible content, audio transcription plays a vital role in extracting insights from spoken data. Our partners are collaborating with clients across industries to implement transcription solutions that enhance efficiency, accessibility, and data-driven decision-making. Traditional audio transcription methods, such as manual transcription or basic […]
GCP – Introducing the new Google Cloud Trace Explorer
Distributed tracing is a critical part of an observability stack, letting you troubleshoot latency and errors in your applications. Cloud Trace, part of Google Cloud Observability, is Google Cloud’s native tracing product, and we’ve made numerous improvements to the Trace explorer UI on top of a new analytics backend. The new Trace explorer page contains: […]
GCP – Phishing Campaigns Targeting Higher Education Institutions
Written by: Ashley Pearson, Ryan Rath, Gabriel Simches, Brian Timberlake, Ryan Magaw, Jessica Wilbur Overview Beginning in August 2024, Mandiant observed a notable increase in phishing attacks targeting the education industry, specifically U.S.-based universities. A separate investigation conducted by the Google’s Workspace Trust and Safety team identified a long-term campaign spanning from at least October 2022, […]
AWS – Certificate-Based Authentication is now available on Amazon AppStream 2.0 multi-session fleets
Amazon AppStream 2.0 improves the end-user experience by adding support for certificate-based authentication (CBA) on multi-session fleets running the Microsoft Windows operating system and joined to an Active Directory. This functionality helps administrators to leverage the cost benefits of the multi-session model while providing an enhanced end-user experience. By combining these enhancements with the existing […]
AWS – Announcing fine-grained access control via AWS Lake Formation with EMR on EKS
We are excited to announce the general availability of fine-grained data access control (FGAC) via AWS Lake Formation for Apache Spark with Amazon EMR on EKS. This enables you to enforce full FGAC policies (database, table, column, row, and cell-level) defined in Lake Formation for your data lake tables from EMR on EKS Spark jobs. […]