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GCP – Limiting public IPs on Google Cloud
You’ve heard this saying: Hope is not a strategy when it comes to security. You have to approach security from all angles, while minimizing the burden on dev and SecOps. But with an ever increasing number of endpoints, networks, and attack surfaces, setting automated and trickle down security policies across your cloud infrastructure can be […]
AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now configures RHEL and SLES clustering for SAP application High Availability
AWS Launch Wizard now configures Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) clustering for High Availability (HA) at the SAP application layer. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Text Analytics’ Named Entity Recognition v3 now supports 10 languages with improved AI quality
With support for more entity categories and more languages, using Text Analytics NER enables organizations to extract higher quality insights from unstructured text. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Transcribe Medical now provides automatic Protected Health Information (PHI) identification
Amazon Transcribe Medical is a HIPAA-eligible automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech-to-text capabilities to healthcare and life science applications. As of today, we’re excited to launch support for the automatic identification of protected health information (PHI) in your medical transcriptions. With automatic PHI identification, customers can reduce […]
AWS – Amazon GuardDuty introduces machine learning domain reputation model to expand threat detection and improve accuracy
Amazon GuardDuty introduces a new machine learning domain reputation model that can categorize previously unseen domains as highly likely to be malicious or benign based on their behavioral characteristics. GuardDuty uses this new capability to alert customers when an EC2 instance in their AWS environment is communicating with a domain identified as malicious and to […]
AWS – Amazon SNS now supports 1-minute CloudWatch metrics
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now publishes metrics at 1-minute resolution to Amazon CloudWatch, providing granular monitoring for Amazon SNS standard and FIFO topics. Previously, Amazon SNS published metrics to Amazon CloudWatch in 5-minute resolution. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Elastic File System triples read throughput
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) now allows you to drive up to 3x higher read throughput on your file system. For example, bursting mode file systems now provide 300MB/s of bursting read throughput, or 300MB/s per TiB of data stored in Amazon EFS standard, whichever is higher. If you have configured 1 GB/s of […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Blockchain now supports resource tagging and tag-based access control
Amazon Managed Blockchain now supports assigning tags to networks, members, proposals, invitations, and nodes. Tags can be assigned to existing resources and to new resources at the time of creation. You can also define fine-grained access controls using tags and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to control access to resources and actions. Tags […]
GCP – Opening up Google’s Windows management tools
Managing a global fleet of Windows desktops, laptops, and servers for Google’s internal teams can be tricky, with a constant stream of new tools, high expectations, and stringent organizational needs for secure, code-based, scalable administration. Add in a globally distributed business and extended work-from-home requirements, and you have a recipe for potential trouble. Today we’d […]
GCP – Building the digital factory with SAP on Google Cloud
Manufacturers today face challenges on many fronts: increasingly demanding customer expectations, higher costs, sustainability concerns, and disruption—most recently and dramatically due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. But data can help companies navigate their way through the obstacle course of modern manufacturing. Manufacturing generates petabytes of useful data that can improve production yields, avert problems, and […]