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AWS – Amazon EKS introduces cluster creation flexibility for networking add-ons
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) provides the flexibility to create Kubernetes clusters without the default networking add-ons, enabling you to easily install open source or third party alternative add-ons or self-manage default networking add-ons using any Kubernetes lifecycle management tool. Every EKS cluster automatically comes with default networking add-ons including Amazon VPC CNI, […]
GCP – Global Revival of Hacktivism Requires Increased Vigilance from Defenders
Written by: Daniel Kapellmann Zafra, Alden Wahlstrom, James Sadowski, Josh Palatucci, Davyn Baumann, Jose Nazario Since early 2022, Mandiant has observed the revival and intensification of threat activity from actors leveraging hacktivist tactics and techniques. This comes decades after hacktivism first emerged as a form of online activism and several years since many defenders […]
GCP – Google Cloud expands grounding capabilities on Vertex AI
Introduced in April, Vertex AI Agent Builder gathers all the surfaces and tools developers need to build enterprise-ready generative AI experiences, apps, and agents. Some of the most powerful tools are the components for retrieval augmented generation (RAG), and the unique ability to ground Gemini outputs with Google Search. Today, I’m pleased to share that […]
GCP – Making Vertex AI the most enterprise-ready generative AI platform
It’s been amazing to see the impressive things customers are doing with generative AI and agents. Less than three months ago, we shared 101 real-world gen AI use cases from the world’s leading organizations. Since then, to enable businesses to roll out compelling AI agents faster, Google DeepMind has continued to pioneer model advances, in […]
GCP – Cloud SQL for MySQL の最新情報: ベクター検索、Gemini サポートなど
※この投稿は米国時間 2024 年 6 月 15 日に、Google Cloud blog に投稿されたものの抄訳です。 Cloud SQL for MySQL は、企業が幅広いアプリケーションに必要とする堅牢なパフォーマンス、スケーラビリティ、信頼性を提供します。複雑なゲームデータの管理からスマートホーム デバイスの運用まで、Chess.com などの企業や Google Nest はすでに Cloud SQL for MySQL を活用してイノベーションを推進し、ユーザー エクスペリエンスを改善して、データドリブン ソリューションの強固な基盤を提供しています。AI 機能の需要が高まるなか、組織は、すでにアプリケーションをサポートしているデータベースを使用しながら、ビジネスのニーズに合わせて AI を活用することを目指しています。 企業のビジネス変革を支援するために、Google は最近、Cloud SQL for MySQL の新機能をいくつか発表し、プレビュー版で利用できるようにしました。これらの新機能は、企業が AI を活用してデータベースとアプリケーションを強化するために役立ちます。Google がこのたび提供を開始したベクター エンベディング検索の統合サポートを活用すれば、革新的な生成 AI アプリケーションとAI 支援ツールを構築し、データベース管理を簡素化して、Gemini でパフォーマンスを次のレベルに引き上げるために役立てることができます。これらの新機能について詳しく見ていきましょう。 1. ベクター検索を使用して生成 AI アプリケーションを構築し、MySQL と統合する Cloud SQL for MySQL ではベクター エンベディングのストレージと類似性検索が提供されるようになり、既存のアプリケーションで生成 […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink introduces two new APIs to query operations on Flink applications
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink introduces the ListApplicationOperations and DescribeApplicationOperation APIs for visibility into operations that were performed on your application. These APIs provide details about when an operation was initiated, its current status, success or failure, if your operation triggered a rollback, and more so that you can take follow-up action. Amazon Managed […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports system-rollback
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink introduces the system-rollback feature to automatically revert your application to the previous running application version during Flink job submission if there are code or configuration errors. You can now opt-in to this feature for improved application uptime. You may encounter errors such as insufficient permissions, incompatible savepoints, and other […]
AWS – Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller zonal autoshift available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller (Route 53 ARC) zonal autoshift is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. AWS customers and AWS Partners who operate in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions can now use zonal autoshift, a feature you can enable to safely and automatically shift an application’s traffic away […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion adds supports to ingest streaming data from Confluent Cloud
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now allows you to seamlessly ingest streaming data from Confluent Cloud Kafka clusters into your Amazon OpenSearch Service managed clusters or Serverless collections without the need for any third-party data connectors. With this integration, you can now use Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion to perform near-real-time aggregations, sampling and anomaly detection on data ingested […]
AWS – Amazon Athena Provisioned Capacity now available in South America (São Paulo) and Europe (Spain)
Today, Amazon Athena made Provisioned Capacity available in the South America (São Paulo) and Europe (Spain) regions. Provisioned Capacity is a feature of Athena that allows you to run SQL queries on fully-managed, dedicated serverless resources for a fixed price and no long-term commitments. Using Provisioned Capacity, you can selectively assign processing capacity to queries […]