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AWS – AWS CodeBuild now supports organization and global GitHub webhooks
AWS CodeBuild now supports organization and global webhooks for GitHub and GitHub Enterprise Server. CodeBuild webhooks automatically detect changes in your repositories and trigger new builds whenever webhook events are received. These events include GitHub Actions workflow run, commit push, release, and pull request. With this feature, you can now configure a single CodeBuild webhook […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances are now available in US East (Ohio) Region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex instances that deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances, are available in US East (Ohio) region. C7i-flex instances expand the EC2 Flex instances portfolio to provide the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a majority of compute intensive […]
AWS – AWS KMS now supports Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key agreement
The Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key agreement enables two parties to establish a shared secret over a public channel. With this new feature, you can take another party’s public key and your own elliptic-curve KMS key that’s inside AWS Key Management Service (KMS) to derive a shared secret within the security boundary of FIPS 140-2 […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager now supports additional Rocky, Oracle, and Alma Linux versions
AWS Systems Manager now supports instances running Rocky Linux, Alma Linux, and Oracle Linux versions 8.8 and 8.9. Systems Manager customers running these operating systems versions now have access to all AWS Systems Manager Node Management capabilities, including Fleet Manager, Compliance, Inventory, Hybrid Activations, Session Manager, Run Command, State Manager, Patch Manager, and Distributor. For […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports minors 10.11.8, 10.6.18, 10.5.25, 10.4.34
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.11.8, 10.6.18, 10.5.25, and 10.4.34. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community. […]
GCP – How Confidential Accelerators can boost AI workload security
As artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads become more popular, it’s important to secure them with specialized data security measures. Confidential Computing can help protect sensitive data used in ML training to maintain the privacy of user prompts and AI/ML models during inference and enable secure collaboration during model creation. At Google Cloud Next, we […]
GCP – Exploring Google Cloud networking enhancements for generative AI applications
Many enterprises are exploring ways to incorporate the benefits of generative AI (gen AI) into their business. The 2023 Gartner® report We Shape AI, AI Shapes Us: 2023 IT Symposium/Xpo Keynote Insights, 16 October 2023 states that “most organizations are using, or plan to use, everyday AI to boost productivity. In the 2024 Gartner CIO […]
GCP – Connecting your on-premises IPv6 workloads to IPv6 workloads in Google Cloud
Whether it’s due to IPv4 address exhaustion, compliance mandates or the need to connect to IPv6-only clients on the internet, IPv6 adoption in the public cloud is growing rapidly. Meanwhile, enterprises also want to connect cloud-based applications back to applications running on-premises over IPv6. Today, we are announcing a significant expansion to our IPv6 Hybrid […]
GCP – 6 deployment archetypes for your reliability, cost, operational, and latency needs
As a cloud architect or IT decision maker planning to deploy an application in Google Cloud, your first step is to choose a deployment archetype that helps you meet your availability, latency, performance, and cost requirements. So, what’s a deployment archetype? It’s an architectural model that you use as the foundation on which to build […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports memory optimized R6i instance types
Starting today, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle now supports memory optimized R6i instance types featuring up to 8x the RAM per vCPU of the existing R6i instance types to better fit your workloads. Many Oracle database workloads require high memory, storage, and I/O bandwidth but can safely reduce the number of vCPUs without […]