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GCP – Announcing VPC Service Controls with private IPs to extend data exfiltration protection
Google Cloud’s VPC Service Controls can help organizations mitigate the risk of data exfiltration from their Google Cloud managed services. VPC Service Controls (VPC-SC) creates isolation perimeters around cloud resources and networks in Google Cloud, helping you limit access to your sensitive data. Today, we are excited to introduce support for private IP addresses within […]
GCP – Get paid to migrate to a modern data platform with BigQuery and Dataproc incentives
Enterprise data platforms are undergoing a significant evolution to meet the changing needs of companies that are building generative AI applications. While traditional data platforms were designed for specific tasks, like data warehousing or data science, generative AI requires an evolution towards improved data quality, scalability, accessibility, and governance, along with tightly integrated gen AI […]
GCP – Mistral AI’s Codestral launches as a service, first on Vertex AI
Today, we’re announcing that Google Cloud is the first hyperscaler to introduce Codestral – Mistral AI’s first open-weight generative AI model explicitly designed for code generation tasks – as a fully-managed service. Codestral helps developers write and interact with code through a shared instruction and completion API endpoint. You can get started with it today […]
AWS – AWS Cost Categories now supports “Billing Entity” dimension
AWS Cost Categories has added a new dimension “Billing Entity” to its rules. You can now use eight types of dimensions: “Linked Account”, “Charge Type”, “Service”, “Usage Type”, “Cost Allocation Tags”, “Region”, “Billing Entity” and other “Cost Category” while creating cost categories rules. AWS Cost Categories is a feature within the AWS Cost Management product […]
AWS – Meta Llama 3.1 generative AI models now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
The most advanced and capable Meta Llama models to date, Llama 3.1, are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a machine learning (ML) hub that offers pretrained models and built-in algorithms to help you quickly get started with ML. You can deploy and use Llama 3.1 models with a few clicks in SageMaker Studio or […]
AWS – Amazon EKS introduces new controls for Kubernetes version support policy
Today, Amazon EKS announces new controls for Kubernetes version policy, allowing cluster administrators to configure end of standard support behavior for EKS clusters. This behavior can easily be set through the EKS Console and CLI. Kubernetes version policy control is available for Kubernetes versions in standard support. Controls for Kubernetes version policy makes it easier […]
AWS – Amazon ECS now supports Amazon Linux 2023 and more for on-premises container workloads
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports managing on-premises workloads running on Amazon Linux 2023, Fedora 40, Debian 11, Debian 12, Ubuntu 24, and CentOS Stream 9. Amazon ECS Anywhere is a feature of Amazon ECS that enables you to run and manage container-based applications on-premises, including on your own virtual machines (VMs) and […]
AWS – AWS AppConfig announces feature flag targets, variants, and splits
Today, AWS announces advanced targeting capabilities for AWS AppConfig feature flags. Customers can set up multiple values within flag data, and target those values to fine-grained and high-cardinality user segments. A common use-case for feature flag targets include allow lists, where a customer can specify user IDs or customer tiers, and only enable a new […]
AWS – Meta Llama 3.1 generative AI models now available in Amazon Bedrock
The most advanced Meta Llama models to date, Llama 3.1, are now available in Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Bedrock offers a turnkey way to build generative AI applications with Llama. Llama 3.1 models are a collection of 8B, 70B, and 405B parameter size models offering new capabilities for your generative AI applications. All Llama 3.1 models […]
AWS – AWS Mainframe Modernization Code Conversion with mLogica is now generally available
We are excited to announce public availability of Mainframe Modernization Code Conversion with mLogica. This new capability enables automated conversion of legacy code written in Assembler language to COBOL. The majority of mainframe environments include Assembler code that is expensive to maintain. Modernization of the code unblocks modernization projects to enable refactor projects, replatform projects, […]