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GCP – Building global momentum with government and security compliance certifications
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s proven more important than ever for public sector agencies to embrace digital services to transform how they work and serve their communities. Operating virtually has only heightened the importance of organizational security and compliance for public sector agencies around the world— who must still meet strict regulatory […]
GCP – Google Cloud and AVEVA’s OSIsoft serve the industrial sector a new flavor of PI
Across the industrial sector, many digital enablers and disruptive technologies are transforming businesses to be more efficient, profitable, nimble, and secure: smart factories with connected machines, the rise of the industrial internet of things (IIoT), proliferation of sensors and data, and new cloud strategies, to name a few. Our work with the PI System is […]
AWS – Multi-Attach for Provisioned IOPS io2 Now Available in Thirteen Additional AWS Regions
With thirteen more regions, EBS Multi-Attach for Provisioned IOPS io2 is now available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Canada (Central), EU (London), EU (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), […]
AWS – AWS Audit Manager now offers a new standard framework for NIST 800-53 (Rev. 5) Low-Moderate-High
AWS Audit Manager now offers a new prebuilt standard framework for NIST 800-53 (Rev. 5) Low-Moderate-High. This framework adds to the existing prebuilt frameworks provided in Audit Manager. With this release, you can launch an assessment from this framework with just a few clicks. Audit Manager will map your AWS resources to the requirements in NIST […]
GCP – Cook up your own ML recipes with AI Platform
For anyone with a sweet tooth for confections and machine learning, I have some good news. You might remember recently my colleagues, Sara Robinson and Dale Markowitz, collaborated to create some delicious new baked inventions, including the Breakie (a fusion between cake, cookies, and bread). All of this was done through a baking ML model […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 G4ad instances, powered by AMD Radeon Pro V520 GPUs, are now available in 5 additional regions
Amazon EC2 G4ad instances which provide the best price performance for graphics intensive applications in the cloud are now available in US East (Ohio), Europe (Frankfurt and London), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Canada (Central). G4ad instances are powered by AMD Radeon Pro V520 GPUs and second-generation AMD EPYC processors, and provide up to 45% better […]
AWS – AWS Glue now supports missing value imputation based on machine learning
AWS Glue now offers missing value imputation on incomplete datasets. You can use the Fill Missing Values transform to get predicted values for blank entries in a column of your data. This feature makes it easy to clean datasets that have null or empty values so that they don’t need to be accounted for at […]
AWS – Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Generally Available
Last week, AWS announced the Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall, a managed firewall that enables customers to block DNS queries made for known malicious domains and to allow queries for trusted domains. DNS Firewall provides more granular control over the DNS querying behavior of resources within your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). Read More […]
AWS – IAM Access Analyzer makes it easier to implement least privilege permissions by generating IAM policies based on access activity
When we launched IAM Access Analyzer, we started by helping you remove unintended public and cross account access by analyzing your existing permissions. Recently, IAM Access Analyzer added policy validation to help you set secure and functional permissions during policy authoring. Now, we are taking that a step further and generating policies for you. You […]
AWS – Amazon Interactive Video Service adds support for recording live streams to Amazon S3
With Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) you can now save your live video content to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Saved video is available for actions like editing or replaying as a video on-demand (VOD). Read More for the details.