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AWS – AWS Lambda announces support for encryption of filter criteria for event source mappings
AWS Lambda announces support for Amazon Key Management Service (KMS) Customer managed keys (CMK) for filter criteria used with event source mappings (ESMs) to filter records from a queue or stream before sending them to a Lambda function. This capability allows you to encrypt the data included under filter criteria using CMK, giving you fine-grained […]
AWS – AWS Backup adds cross-Region, cross-account copy for SAP HANA on Amazon EC2
AWS Backup now supports cross-Region and cross-account backup for SAP HANA on EC2, enabling customers to copy snapshot backups across Regions and accounts within their AWS Organizations. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. With this launch, AWS Backup customers can more easily […]
AWS – AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location and expansion in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the CSF Telcohub 1 Data Center near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Kuala Lumpur location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock offers select FMs for batch inference at 50% of on-demand inference price
Last year, we introduced support for batch inference in preview, allowing you to process prompts in batch to get responses for model evaluation, experimentation, and offline processing. Beginning today, Amazon Bedrock supports batch inference in general availability in all supported AWS regions for supported models. Use batch inference to run multiple inference requests asynchronously, and […]
AWS – Amazon S3 adds additional context to HTTP 403 Access Denied error messages
Amazon S3 now includes additional context in HTTP 403 Access Denied errors for requests made to resources within the same AWS account. This new context includes the type of policy that denied access, the reason for denial, and information on the AWS IAM user or role that requested access to the resource. This context helps […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge Scheduler now provides higher default service quotas
Amazon EventBridge Scheduler, a serverless scheduler that allows you to create, trigger, and manage millions of scheduled events and tasks, now has higher default service quotas. The default service quota for number of schedules is now 10 million schedules instead of 1 million in all regions, and the invocation throughput quota is now 1000 invocations […]
GCP – Introducing delayed destruction for Secret Manager, a new way to protect your secrets
Secret Manager is a fully-managed, scalable service for storing, operating, auditing and accessing secrets used across Google Cloud services including GKE and Compute Engine. A critical part of any secrets management strategy is managing deletion and destruction of secrets. To provide customers with advanced capabilities in this area, we are pleased to announce the general […]
GCP – Run your AI inference applications on Cloud Run with NVIDIA GPUs
Developers love Cloud Run for its simplicity, fast autoscaling, scale-to-zero capabilities, and pay-per-use pricing. Those same benefits come into play for real-time inference apps serving open gen AI models. That’s why today, we’re adding support for NVIDIA L4 GPUs to Cloud Run, in preview. This opens the door to many new use cases to Cloud […]
GCP – Cloud Functions is now Cloud Run functions — event-driven programming in one unified serverless platform
Cloud Functions and its familiar event-driven programming model is now Cloud Run functions, complete with the fine-grained control and scalability that developers love about the serverless platform. With Cloud Run functions, we’ve created a unified serverless platform for all your workloads, so you don’t have to choose between the two. This goes beyond a simple […]
AWS – AWS CloudHSM launches new hsm2m.medium instance type
AWS CloudHSM launched hsm2m.medium with support for Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 Level 3 and non-FIPS CloudHSM clusters. The new instance type provides customers with new features, increased performance, and flexibility. hsm2m.medium offers increased key capacity and higher elliptic curve performance compared with the existing hsm1.medium instance type. Backups from CloudHSM clusters based on […]