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AWS – Amazon Bedrock now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Osaka) regions
Beginning today, customers can use Amazon Bedrock in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Osaka) regions to easily build and scale generative AI applications using a variety of foundation models (FMs) as well as powerful tools to build generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing […]
GCP – Unlock Inference-as-a-Service with Cloud Run and Vertex AI
It’s no secret that large language models (LLMs) and generative AI have become a key part of the application landscape. But most foundational LLMs are consumed as a service, meaning they’re hosted and served by a third party and accessed via APIs. Ultimately, this reliance on external APIs creates bottlenecks for developers. There are many […]
GCP – An SRE’s guide to optimizing ML systems with MLOps pipelines
Picture this: you’re an Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) responsible for the systems that power your company’s machine learning (ML) services. What do you do to ensure you have a reliable ML service, how do you know you’re doing it well, and how can you build strong systems to support these services? As artificial intelligence (AI) […]
GCP – Announcing quantum-safe digital signatures in Cloud KMS
The continued advancement of experimental quantum computing has raised concerns about the security of many of the world’s widely-used public-key cryptography systems. Crucially, there exists the potential for sufficiently large, cryptographically-relevant quantum computers to break these algorithms. This potential highlights the need for developers to build and implement quantum-resistant cryptography now. Fortunately, post-quantum cryptography (PQC) […]
GCP – Taking Flight: How the RAF Air Cadets bridged the digital divide with ChromeOS Flex
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Dr. Jill Matterface, Education and Training Specialist for the Royal Air Force. Early on in her career with the Royal Air Force Air Cadets, Dr. Jill Matterface, Education and Training Specialist for the RAF, discovered that 27% of cadets come from disadvantaged areas in the UK. These cadets, and […]
AWS – SES Outbound now delivers to Mail Manager Archives
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) announces that Outbound customers can now specify a Mail Manager archive resource as an additional destination for outbound mail workloads. This enables retention of messages post-DKIM-signature, ensuring that the archive is usable for validating every individual sent message. The Mail Manager archive search interface allows easy discovery of indexed messages […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall introduces automated domain lists and insights
AWS Network Firewall now offers automated domain lists and insights, a feature that enhances visibility into network traffic and simplifies firewall rule configuration. This new capability analyzes HTTP and HTTPS traffic logs from the last 30 days and provides insights into frequently accessed domains, enabling quick rule creation based on observed network traffic patterns. Many […]
AWS – Amazon ECS increases the CPU limit for ECS tasks to 192 vCPUs
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports CPU limits of up to 192 vCPU for ECS tasks deployed on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, an increase from the previous 10 vCPU limit. This enhancement allows customers to more effectively manage resource allocation on larger Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon ECS customers can define […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL supports new minor versions 8.0.41 and 8.4.4
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor versions 8.0.41 and 8.4.4. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community. Learn more […]
AWS – Announcing AWS DMS Serverless comprehensive premigration assessments
AWS Database Migration Service Serverless (AWS DMSS) now supports premigration assessments for replications . A premigration assessment evaluates the source and target databases of a database migration task to help identify problems that might prevent a migration from running as expected. By identifying and fixing these issues before a migration starts, you can avoid delays […]