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AWS – AWS Control Tower now available in Sao Paulo & Paris and provides region deselection
AWS Control Tower is now available in 2 additional AWS Regions: South America (Sao Paulo), and Europe (Paris) that expands AWS Control Tower availability to 15 AWS Regions. We are announcing AWS Control Tower Region Deselection that enhances your ability to efficiently manage the geographical footprint of your AWS Control Tower resources. You can now […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker now supports M5d, R5, P3dn, and G4dn instances for SageMaker Notebook Instances
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker now supports Amazon EC2 M5d, R5, P3dn, and G4dn instances for SageMaker Notebook Instance. Customers are able to launch SageMaker Notebook Instance with these instance types in the regions where they are available. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Config support for AWS Backup Services
AWS Config now supports AWS Backup resource types (AWS::Backup::BackupPlan, AWS::Backup::BackupSelection, AWS::Backup::BackupVault and AWS::Backup::RecoveryPoint) in all AWS Regions. AWS Config provides a detailed view of the configuration of AWS resources in your AWS account. This includes how the resources are related to one another and how they were configured. This enables you to see how the […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra is now IRAP assessed at PROTECTED level
Amazon Kendra has been Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) assessed at the PROTECTED level. Now, you can meet the Australian Government Information Security Manual (ISM) control objectives while using Kendra. Read More for the details.
GCP – 8 ways Google Cloud elevates agility and security for financial services
The COVID-19 pandemic brought dramatic changes to the financial services industry. Already under pressure from nimble young fintechs to modernize, established banks and insurers were undergoing incremental digital transformation. But in 2020, they hit the gas pedal. Branches closed and remote work became the norm. Almost overnight, employees needed secure remote access to corporate systems, […]
GCP – Image search with natural language queries
This post shows how to build an image search utility using natural language queries. Our aim is to use different GCP services to demonstrate this. At the core of our project is OpenAI’s CLIP model. It makes use of two encoders – one for images and one for texts. Each encoder is trained to learn […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Backup now supports Archive Tier for backups of SQL Server in Azure VMs
Azure Backup now provides the capability to move long term retention(LTR) recovery points to low-cost archive tier for SQL Server for Azure VM. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Storage Gateway now supports Quest NetVault Backup 13 on Tape Gateway
AWS Storage Gateway now supports Quest NetVault Backup 13 on Tape Gateway, enabling you to backup and archive data from Quest NetVault Backup to AWS without changing your backup workflows. With this announcement, Tape Gateway supports Quest NetVault Backup 13 running on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 or Microsoft Windows Server 2016. Read More for […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift simplifies the use of JDBC/ODBC with authentication profile
Amazon Redshift now supports an authentication profile that enables administrators to centrally store client-side properties required to connect Redshift data warehouse using JDBC/ODBC/Python drivers. You can create an authentication profile by specifying a JSON file with the name and value for the required client and extended properties. End-users such as analysts, developers, and data engineers […]
Azure – General availability: Web Application Firewall (WAF) geomatch custom rules on Application Gateway
Try geomatch custom rules to block or allow traffic based on geo-location, now generally available for Azure Web Application Firewall on Application Gateway. Read More for the details.