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AWS – Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports Lustre version upgrades
Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that provides high-performance, cost-effective, and scalable file storage for compute workloads, now enables you to upgrade the Lustre version of your FSx for Lustre file systems. This feature allows you to benefit from the enhancements available in newer Lustre versions on your existing file systems. FSx for Lustre provides […]
AWS – AWS AppSync enhances resolver testing with comprehensive context object mocking
AWS AppSync, a fully managed GraphQL service that helps customers build scalable APIs, announces improvements to its EvaluateCode and EvaluateMappingTemplate APIs. This update enables developers to comprehensively mock all properties of the context object during resolver and function unit testing, including identity information, stash variables, and error handling. The enhancement also introduces improved JSON input […]
AWS – AWS HealthScribe now supports GIRPP note template for behavioral health
AWS HealthScribe is a generative AI-powered service that automatically generates summarized clinical notes and transcripts from patient-clinician conversations. Documentation for behavioral health related encounters follows a goal centric format based on GIRPP (Goal, Intervention, Response, Progress, Plan) format. With this launch, AWS HealthScribe customers can directly convert a behavioral health related patient-clinician conversation to a […]
AWS – Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) now adds full snapshot size information in Console and API
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) now displays the full snapshot size for EBS Snapshots. With this enhancement, customers can now retrieve full snapshot sizes programmatically through the DescribeSnapshots API using the new field, full-snapshot-size-in-bytes. The full snapshot size is also displayed in the EBS Snapshots console under the new ‘Full snapshot size’ column. Since […]
GCP – Why you should check out our Next ‘25 Security Hub
Google Cloud Next 2025 is coming up fast, and it’s shaping up to be a must-attend event for the cybersecurity community and anyone passionate about learning more about the threat landscape. We’re going to offer an immersive experience packed with opportunities to connect with experts, explore innovative technologies, and hone your skills in the ever-evolving […]
AWS – Amazon Polly launches a new voice in Singaporean English
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Jasmine – new Singaporean English Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) female voice for Amazon Polly. Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk and to build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Jasmine is our first voice […]
AWS – AWS AppSync GraphQL introduces operation-level caching for faster GraphQL API responses
AWS AppSync GraphQL now offers operation-level caching, a new feature that allows customers to cache entire GraphQL query operation responses. This enhancement enables developers to optimize read-heavy GraphQL APIs, delivering faster response times and improved application performance. Operation-level caching in AWS AppSync GraphQL streamlines the caching process by storing complete query responses. This approach is […]
GCP – Cybercrime: A Multifaceted National Security Threat
Executive Summary Cybercrime makes up a majority of the malicious activity online and occupies the majority of defenders’ resources. In 2024, Mandiant Consulting responded to almost four times more intrusions conducted by financially motivated actors than state-backed intrusions. Despite this overwhelming volume, cybercrime receives much less attention from national security practitioners than the threat from […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB now supports auto-approval of quota adjustments
You can now request for Amazon DynamoDB account-level and table-level throughput quota adjustments using AWS Service Quotas in all AWS Commercial Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, and get auto-approved within minutes. Previously, when requesting a quota adjustment, Service Quotas allowed you to indicate the Amazon DynamoDB quota and desired value to be adjusted […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides a dashboard with aggregated insights on agent performance evaluations
Contact Lens now provides managers with an agent performance evaluation dashboard, to view aggregations of agent performance, and insights across cohorts of agents over time. With this launch, managers can access a unified dashboard on agent performance across evaluation scores, productivity (e.g., contacts handled, average handle time, etc.) and operational metrics. Through detailed performance scorecards […]