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GCP – Transforming DoD’s data utilization with generative AI
Generative AI presents both immense opportunities and challenges for the Department of Defense (DoD). The potential to enhance situational awareness, streamline tasks, and improve decision-making is significant. However, the DoD’s unique requirements, especially their stringent security standards for cloud services (IL5), necessitate carefully crafted AI solutions that balance innovation with security. The DoD’s 2023 Data, […]
GCP – Pirates in the Data Sea: AI Enhancing Your Adversarial Emulation
Matthijs Gielen, Jay Christiansen Background New solutions, old problems. Artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) are here to signal a new day in the cybersecurity world, but what does that mean for us—the attackers and defenders—and our battle to improve security through all the noise? Data is everywhere. For most organizations, the access […]
AWS – AWS CloudTrail Lake enhances log analysis with AI-powered features
AWS announces two AI-powered enhancements to AWS CloudTrail Lake, a managed data lake that helps you capture, immutably store, access, and analyze your activity logs, as well as AWS Config configuration items. These new capabilities simplify log analysis, enabling deeper insights and quicker investigations across your AWS environments: AI-powered natural language query generation in CloudTrail […]
AWS – AWS SDK now supports ListBillingViewsAPI for AWS Billing Conductor users
Today, AWS announces the general availability of ListBillingViews API in the AWS SDKs, to enable AWS Billing Conductor (ABC) users to create pro forma Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) programmatically. Today, CUR PutReportDefinition API requires a BillingViewArn – the Amazon resource name for a billing view, to populate the CUR with proforma data. Prior to […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports 4th generation Intel (C7i, M7i, R7i) instances
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors based compute optimized (C7i), general purpose (M7i), and memory optimized (R7i) instances. These instances deliver up to 15% better price performance over 3rd generation Intel C6i, M6i & R6i instances respectively. You can update your domain to the new instances seamlessly through the OpenSearch […]
AWS – AWS B2B Data Interchange introduces generative AI-assisted EDI mappings
AWS B2B Data Interchange now enables you to generate electronic data interchange (EDI) mapping code using generative AI. This new capability expedites the process of writing and testing bi-directional EDI mappings, reducing the time, effort, and costs associated with migrating your EDI workloads to AWS. AWS B2B Data Interchange is a fully managed service that automates […]
AWS – SageMaker Model Registry now supports model lineage to improve model governance
Amazon SageMaker Model Registry now supports tracking machine learning (ML) model lineage, enabling you to automatically capture and retain information about the steps of an ML workflow, from data preparation and training to model registration and deployment. Customers use Amazon SageMaker Model Registry as a purpose-built metadata store to manage the entire lifecycle of ML […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB introduces warm throughput for tables and indexes
Amazon DynamoDB now supports a new warm throughput value and the ability to easily pre-warm DynamoDB tables and indexes. The warm throughput value provides visibility into the number of read and write operations your DynamoDB tables can readily handle, while pre-warming let’s you proactively increase the value to meet future traffic demands. DynamoDB automatically scales […]
AWS – Introducing resource control policies (RCPs) to centrally restrict access to AWS resources
AWS is excited to announce resource control policies (RCPs) in AWS Organizations to help you centrally establish a data perimeter across your AWS environment. With RCPs, you can centrally restrict external access to your AWS resources at scale. At launch, RCPs apply to resources of the following AWS services: Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), […]
AWS – Application Signals now supports burn rate for application performance goals
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals, an application performance monitoring (APM) feature in CloudWatch, makes it easy to automatically instrument and track application performance against their most important business or service level objectives (SLOs). Customers can now receive alerts when these SLOs reach a critical burn rate. This new feature allows you to calculate how quickly your […]