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AWS – Announcing the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in New York City
Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in New York City, supporting a wide range of workloads at the edge. This new Local Zone offers Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i, R7i, M6i, and M6in instances and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume types gp2, gp3, io1, sc1, […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C7i instances now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. C7i instances […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides free trials for conversational analytics and performance evaluations
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides free trials for first-time users of conversational analytics and performance evaluations. New conversational analytics for voice customers will receive a free trial with no charge for the first 100,000 voice minutes per month for the first two months. In addition, customers using Contact Lens performance evaluations for the first […]
AWS – Amazon Q Developer is now available in Amazon SageMaker Code Editor IDE
Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed machine learning service, announces the general availability of Amazon Q Developer in SageMaker Studio Code Editor. SageMaker Studio customers now get generative AI assistance powered by Q Developer right within their Code Editor (Visual Studio Code – Open Source) IDE. With Q Developer, data scientists and ML engineers can access […]
AWS – AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location and expansion in Bangkok, Thailand
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Telehouse Bangkok, Thailand data center. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Bangkok location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This site is the […]
AWS – Amazon MSK Connect APIs now support AWS PrivateLink
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka Connect (Amazon MSK Connect) APIs now come with AWS PrivateLink support, allowing you to invoke Amazon MSK Connect APIs from within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without traversing the public internet. By default, all communication between your MSK Clusters and your Amazon MSK Connect connectors is private, and […]
GCP – Supporting women founders innovating with AI
Despite the growing global investment in AI, women-founded startups remain underrepresented in the venture capital landscape. Just last year, female-founded companies in Europe received just 1.8% of total VC funding. To help close this gender gap, we are opening up applications for the Google for Startups Accelerator: Women Founders program for Europe & Israel. This […]
GCP – Distributed data preprocessing with GKE and Ray: Scaling for the enterprise
The exponential growth of machine learning models brings with it ever-increasing datasets. This data deluge creates a significant bottleneck in the Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) lifecycle, as traditional data preprocessing methods struggle to scale. The preprocessing phase, which is critical for transforming raw data into a format suitable for model training, can become a major […]
GCP – Ivanti Connect Secure VPN Targeted in New Zero-Day Exploitation
Written by: John Wolfram, Josh Murchie, Matt Lin, Daniel Ainsworth, Robert Wallace, Dimiter Andonov, Dhanesh Kizhakkinan, Jacob Thompson Note: This is a developing campaign under active analysis by Mandiant and Ivanti. We will continue to add more indicators, detections, and information to this blog post as needed. On Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, Ivanti disclosed two […]
AWS – Announcing 20 additional AWS Systems Manager Automation runbook recommendations in AWS Chatbot
AWS announces general availability of 20 additional AWS Systems Manager Automation runbook recommendations as contextual action buttons on event notifications in AWS Chatbot. This launch enables customers to run AWS Systems Manager automations from Microsoft Teams and Slack channels to address AWS Security Hub and Amazon ECS-related events. With this launch, customers can run AWS […]