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GCP – Privacy-preserving Confidential Computing now on even more machines and services
Organizations are increasingly using Confidential Computing to help protect their sensitive data in use as part of their data protection efforts. Today, we are excited to highlight new Confidential Computing capabilities that make it easier for organizations of all sizes to adopt this important privacy-preserving technology. 1. Confidential GKE Nodes on the general-purpose C3D machine […]
GCP – Cloud migrations made easy: a guide to migrating from AWS to Google Cloud
More and more customers deploy their workloads on Google Cloud. But what if your workloads are sitting in another cloud? Planning, designing, and implementing a migration of your workloads, data, and processes is not an easy task. It gets even harder if you have to meet requirements that have an impact on the migration, such […]
GCP – A new flexible, simplified, and more secure way to configure GKE cluster connectivity
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) provides users with a lot of options when it comes to configuring their cluster networks. But with today’s highly dynamic environments, GKE platform operators tell us that they want more flexibility when it comes to changing up their configurations. To help, today we are excited to announce a set of features […]
AWS – AWS announces new edge location in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces expansion in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by launching a new Amazon CloudFront edge location in Jeddah. The new AWS edge location brings the full suite of benefits provided by Amazon CloudFront, a secure, highly distributed, and scalable content delivery network (CDN) that delivers static and dynamic content, APIs, and […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock now offers multimodal support for Cohere Embed 3 Multilingual and Embed 3 English
Amazon Bedrock now offers multimodal support for Cohere Embed 3 Multilingual and Embed 3 English, foundation models that generate embeddings from both text and images. This powerful addition to Amazon Bedrock can enable enterprises to unlock significant value from their vast amounts of data, including visual content. With this new capability, businesses can build systems […]
AWS – Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.32
Kubernetes version 1.32 introduced several new features and bug fixes, and AWS is excited to announce that you can now use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Amazon EKS Distro to run Kubernetes version 1.32. Starting today, you can create new EKS clusters using version 1.32 and upgrade existing clusters to version 1.32 using the […]
AWS – AWS Transfer Family supports custom directory locations to store AS2 files
AWS Transfer Family now allows you to customize the directories for your Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) files, including the inbound AS2 messages, message disposition notifications (MDN), and other metadata files. This enables you to separate your AS2 messages from the MDN files and status files generated by the service, and automate downstream processing of the […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 I7ie instances now available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt, London), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) I7ie instances are available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt, London), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. Designed for large storage I/O intensive workloads, I7ie instances are powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, offering up to 40% better compute performance […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database now supports PostgreSQL 16.6
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is now available with PostgreSQL version 16.6 compatibility. This release contains product improvements and bug fixes made by the PostgreSQL community, along with Aurora Limitless-specific security and feature improvements such as support for GIN operator classes with B-tree behavior (btree_gin) and support for DISCARD. Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database makes it […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Multi-AZ is generally available for RA3 clusters in 2 additional AWS regions
Amazon Redshift is announcing the general availability of Multi-AZ deployments for RA3 clusters in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) AWS regions. Redshift Multi-AZ deployments support running your data warehouse in multiple AWS Availability Zones (AZ) simultaneously and continue operating in unforeseen failure scenarios. A Multi-AZ deployment raises the Amazon Redshift Service Level Agreement […]