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AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 C6a instances
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of compute optimized Amazon EC2 C6a instances. C6a instances are powered by 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors (code named Milan) with an all-core turbo frequency of up to 3.6 GHz, deliver up to 15% better compute price performance compared to C5a instances for a wide variety of […]
GCP – Orchestrating PyTorch ML Workflows on Vertex AI Pipelines
Previously in the PyTorch on Google Cloud series, we trained, tuned and deployed a PyTorch text classification model using Training and Prediction services on Vertex AI. In this post, we will show how to automate and monitor a PyTorch based ML workflow by orchestrating the pipeline in a serverless manner using Vertex AI Pipelines. Let’s […]
AWS – Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.9.13
Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.9.13. This update to RabbitMQ contains several fixes and enhancements compared to the previously supported version, RabbitMQ 3.8.26. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS SSO Expands Support for Customer Compliance with PCI-DSS and IRAP
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) has increased its alignment with customer compliance requirements for security and privacy. AWS SSO achieved Payment Card Industry – Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance and is Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) assessed at the PROTECTED level. These are in addition to existing […]
AWS – AWS WAF introduces AWS WAF Fraud Control – Account Takeover Prevention for protecting your login page against credential stuffing attacks
AWS WAF announces the launch of AWS WAF Fraud Control – Account Takeover Prevention to protect your application’s login page against credential stuffing attacks, brute force attempts, and other anomalous login activities. Account Takeover Prevention enables you to proactively stop account takeover attempts at the network edge. With Account Takeover Prevention, you can prevent unauthorized […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere version 22.02 expected on Feb 28, 2022
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period for 22.02 provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing. Read More for the details.
GCP – Free your mainframe data with data-first digitization
For many enterprises, the venerable mainframe is home to decades’ worth of data about the company’s customers, processes and operations. And it goes without saying that the business would like access to that mainframe data — to report on it, to analyze it with big data analysis tools, or to use it as the basis […]
GCP – Data modernization with Google Cloud and MongoDB Atlas
What does modernization mean? As an IT leader or architect, you may notice that your software architecture is encountering performance issues. You may be considering moving your datastore from a mainframe or a traditional relational database (RDBMS) to a more modern database to take advantage of advanced analytics, scale at a faster rate, and opportunities […]
GCP – Control access to microservices with gRPC and Traffic Director
We are excited to announce Traffic Director’s general availability of client authorization by proxyless gRPC services. This release, in conjunction with Traffic Director’s capability for managing mutual TLS (mTLS) credentials for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), enables customers to centrally manage access between workloads using Traffic Director. With the new authorization support, you can explicitly permit […]
GCP – Add intelligence to your document processing with Google’s Enterprise Knowledge Graph
Google Cloud introduced Document AI to automate document processing and to streamline workflows with state-of-the-art machine learning models. With the deep neural networks, the models generalize the learning from seeing hundreds of thousands variations of the documents. But when information is missing or ambiguous on a document – like a missing address or entity name […]
