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GCP – Enhancing the HPC experience with Slurm-GCP v6 and TPU support
On Google Cloud, our HPC-optimized infrastructure, including the AI Hypercomputer, can be deployed in multiple ways according to user preferences. For customers that want a Slurm-based environment, we recommend using the Cloud HPC Toolkit, a Google product that helps simplify the creation and management of HPC systems for AI/ML and traditional HPC workloads. The Toolkit […]
GCP – Move from always-on privileges to on-demand access with new Privileged Access Manager
We are continually enhancing Google Cloud’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) capabilities to help our customers strengthen their security posture. To help mitigate the risks associated with excessive privileges and misuses of elevated access, we are excited to announce Google Cloud’s built-in Privileged Access Manager (PAM). Now available in preview, PAM helps you achieve the […]
GCP – How you can build a FedRAMP High-compliant network with Assured Workloads
Google Cloud recently achieved a major U.S. government compliance milestone with more than 130 services, including 12 additional Cloud Networking services, approved for FedRAMP High authorization — the strictest standard for protecting the most sensitive unclassified data. To help our customers securely deploy a network architecture that aligns with FedRAMP High, we have outlined several […]
GCP – UNC5537 Targets Snowflake Customer Instances for Data Theft and Extortion
Introduction Through the course of our incident response engagements and threat intelligence collections, Mandiant has identified a threat campaign targeting Snowflake customer database instances with the intent of data theft and extortion. Snowflake is a multi-cloud data warehousing platform used to store and analyze large amounts of structured and unstructured data. Mandiant tracks this cluster […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Serverless is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) region
Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) region. With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users, including data analysts, developers, and data scientists, can use Amazon Redshift to get insights from data in seconds. […]
AWS – Amazon API Gateway customers can easily secure APIs using Amazon Verified Permissions
Amazon Verified Permissions expanded support for securing Amazon API Gateway APIs, with fine grained access controls when using an Open ID connect (OIDC) compliant identity provider. Developers can now control access based on user attributes and group memberships, without writing code. For example, say you are building a loan processing application. Using this feature, you […]
AWS – Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports Bitbucket Cloud source code repositories
Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports the use of source code repositories hosted in Bitbucket Cloud in CodeCatalyst projects. This allows customers to use Bitbucket Cloud repositories with CodeCatalyst’s features such as its cloud IDE (Development Environments), Generative AI features such as Q feature development, and custom blueprints. Customers can also trigger CodeCatalyst workflows based on events […]
AWS – Centrally manage member account root email addresses across your AWS Organization
Today, we are making it easier for AWS Organizations customers to centrally manage the root email address of member accounts across their Organization using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), AWS Software Development Kit (SDK), and AWS Organizations console. We previously released the Accounts SDK that enables Organizations customers to centrally and programmatically manage both […]
AWS – Amazon Data Firehose now supports integration with AWS Secrets Manager
Amazon Data Firehose (Firehose) now supports integration with AWS Secrets Manager (Secrets Manager) to configure secrets such as database credentials or keys to connect to streaming destinations such as Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Splunk, and HTTP endpoints. Amazon Data Firehose needs to access a secret such as database credentials or keys to connect to a streaming […]
AWS – Amazon FSx for Lustre increases maximum metadata IOPS by up to 15x
Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that provides high-performance, cost-effective, and scalable file storage for compute workloads, is increasing the maximum level of metadata IO operations per second (IOPS) you can drive on a file system by up to 15x, and now allows you to provision metadata IOPS independently of your file system’s storage capacity. […]