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AWS – Amazon EKS introduces a new catalog of community add-ons
Today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) announced a new catalog of community add-ons that includes metrics-server, kube-state-metrics, cert-manager, prometheus-node-exporter, and external-dns. This enables you to easily find, select, configure, and manage popular open-source Kubernetes add-ons directly through EKS. Each add-on has been packaged, scanned, and validated for compatibility by EKS, with container images securely hosted […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports conversational analytics in 34 new languages
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports conversational analytics in 34 new languages including Afrikaans, Arabic (Modern Standard), Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese (Cantonese), Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Farsi, Galician, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Kannada, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sundanese, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and Zulu. Additionally, 21 languages that […]
GCP – Accelerate analytics with AI-assisted data preparation in BigQuery, now GA
According to Gartner®, “Gartner clients now report that 90% or more of their time is spent preparing data (as high as 94% in complex industries) for advanced analytics, data science and data engineering.”1. Last year, we introduced BigQuery data preparation, which helps data analyst teams wrangle data with help from Gemini in BigQuery. With it, […]
GCP – How WindTL is transforming wildfire management with Google Cloud
Imagine a world where we could outsmart wildfires, predict their chaotic spread, and shield communities from their devastating reach. That’s the vision Rocio Frej Vitalle and the Improving Aviation team had when they created WindTL, a tool driven by the raw power of AI and data. Turning this vision into a practical reality meant building […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: How digital sovereignty builds better borders for the future
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for March 2025. Today, Archana Ramamoorthy, senior director of product management, Google Cloud, explains our approach to digital sovereignty and we believe strongly in meeting this vital customer need. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If […]
AWS – AWS Identity and Access Management now supports dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) environments
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) announces a new dual-stack public endpoint, enabling customers to connect to IAM over the public internet using IPv6, IPv4, or dual-stack clients. Dual-stack support is also available when customers access the new IAM endpoint privately from their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using AWS PrivateLink. With simultaneous support for […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces the general availability of industry-leading image content filters
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces the general availability of image content filters – offering industry-leading text and image content safeguards that help customers block up to 88% of harmful multi modal content. This new capability removes the heavy lifting required by customers to build their own safeguards for image content or spend cycles with manual content […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 now supports more bandwidth and jumbo frames to select destinations
Amazon EC2 now supports up to the full EC2 instance bandwidth for inter-region VPC peering traffic and to AWS Direct Connect. Additionally, EC2 supports jumbo frames up to 8500 Bytes for cross region VPC peering. Before today, the egress bandwidth for EC2 instances was limited to 50% of the aggregate bandwidth limit for instances with […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker introduces metadata rules to enforce standards and improve data governance
The next generation of SageMaker brings together widely adopted AWS machine learning and analytics capabilities, delivering an integrated experience with unified access to all data. Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse supports unified data access, and Amazon SageMaker Catalog, built on Amazon DataZone, offers catalog and governance features to meet enterprise security needs. Amazon SageMaker Catalog now supports […]
AWS – Amazon DataZone now supports metadata rules for publishing
Amazon DataZone is a data management service that makes it faster and easier for customers to catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored across AWS, on premises, and third-party sources. Amazon DataZone now supports metadata rules for data publishing workflows, in addition to existing support for subscription workflows. This enhancement allows organizations to enforce metadata […]