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AWS – Amazon DocumentDB announces IAM database authentication
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports cluster authentication with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users and roles ARNs. Users and applications connecting to an Amazon DocumentDB cluster to read, write, update, or delete data can now use an AWS IAM identity to authenticate connection requests. These users and applications can use the same […]
GCP – Responsible AI: Powering Innovation in the Public Sector
In this blog series, Google Public Sector leaders share their expertise on how AI is revolutionizing government services. We’ll explore the ways our AI solutions are adaptive, secure, responsible, and intelligent – enabling agencies to serve constituents better than ever before. Explore our thought leadership hub to explore innovative ideas for public service. AI’s growing […]
GCP – Free to be SRE — how to use generative AI to code, test and troubleshoot your systems
Are you an SRE (or SysAdmin, DevOps Engineer or Systems Architect?) grappling with the ever-growing complexity of modern systems? Generative AI, including Google’s Gemini for developers, offers a toolkit that can help streamline your operational tasks and boost efficiency. To help you get started, here’s a curated list of resources that will help you gain […]
GCP – Advancing systems research: Synthesized Google storage I/O traces now available to the community
Designing large-scale distributed storage systems is a complex challenge, requiring deep insights into how storage hardware and software interact under real-world conditions. To empower researchers in this field, we recently released a collection of synthesized Google I/O traces for storage servers and disks. This release accompanies our paper, “Thesios: Synthesizing Accurate Counterfactual I/O Traces from […]
GCP – Powering Public Sector Innovation with Intelligent AI
In this blog series, Google Public Sector leaders share their expertise on how AI is revolutionizing government services. We’ll explore the ways our AI solutions are adaptive, secure, responsible, and intelligent – enabling agencies to serve constituents better than ever before. Explore our thought leadership hub to explore innovative ideas for public service. The public […]
GCP – Empowering Governments with Adaptive AI
In this blog series our Google Cloud Public Sector leaders share their expertise on how AI is revolutionizing government services. We’ll explore the ways our AI solutions are adaptive, secure, responsible, and intelligent – enabling agencies to serve constituents better than ever before. Explore our thought leadership hub to explore innovative ideas for public service. […]
GCP – HomeToGo: Helping customers find their dream vacation home with generative AI
The annual vacation: whether it’s a weekend at the beach or a far-flung adventure, choosing the right trip is one of the most significant decisions many people make all year. At HomeToGo, it’s important to us that travelers find exactly the right accommodation for their needs. As the SaaS-enabled marketplace with the world’s largest selection […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in three additional regions
Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), and Middle East (UAE) regions. Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling elastically scales query processing power to provide consistently fast performance for hundreds of concurrent queries. Concurrency Scaling resources are added to your Redshift cluster transparently in seconds, as concurrency increases, to process […]
AWS – Amazon RDS announces integration with AWS Secrets Manager in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon RDS now supports integration with AWS Secrets Manager in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions to streamline how you manage your master user password for your RDS database instances. With this feature, RDS fully manages the master user password and stores it in AWS Secrets Manager whenever your RDS database instances are created, modified, or […]
AWS – AWS B2B Data Interchange announces automated 999 acknowledgements for healthcare transactions
AWS B2B Data Interchange now automatically generates 999 functional acknowledgements to confirm receipt of individual X12 electronic data interchange (EDI) healthcare transactions and to report errors. This launch helps you maintain HIPAA compliance while automating delivery of 999 acknowledgements to trading partners that require them. This launch adds to AWS B2B Data Interchange’s existing support […]