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GCP – Reltio’s Data Plane Transformation with Spanner on Google Cloud
In today’s data-driven landscape, data unification plays a pivotal role in ensuring data consistency and accuracy across an organization. Reltio, a leading provider of AI-powered data unification and management solutions, recently undertook a significant step in modernizing its data infrastructure by migrating from self-managed Cassandra to Spanner on Google Cloud. The outcome of this endeavor […]
GCP – How Shopify improved consumer search intent with real-time ML
In the dynamic landscape of commerce, Shopify merchants rely on our platform’s ability to seamlessly and reliably deliver highly relevant products to potential customers. Therefore, a rich and intuitive search experience is an essential part of our offering. Over the past year, Shopify has been integrating AI-powered search capabilities into our merchants’ storefronts. Shopify Storefront […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: AI vendors should share vulnerability research. Here’s why
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2024. Today I’m discussing new AI vulnerabilities that Google’s security teams discovered and helped fix, and why it’s important for AI vendors to share vulnerability research impacting their technology. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud […]
GCP – How Low Can You Go? An Analysis of 2023 Time-to-Exploit Trends
Written by: Casey Charrier, Robert Weiner Mandiant analyzed 138 vulnerabilities that were disclosed in 2023 and that we tracked as exploited in the wild. Consistent with past analyses, the majority (97) of these vulnerabilities were exploited as zero-days (vulnerabilities exploited before patches are made available, excluding end-of-life technologies). Forty-one vulnerabilities were exploited as n-days (vulnerabilities […]
GCP – A new era of partnership: Unveiling Google Public Sector’s enhanced Partner Program
Google Public Sector is excited today to launch its enhanced Partner Program, designed to empower partners to achieve success in the public sector market. Unveiled at Public Sector Partner Connect 2024, this enhanced program – under the Partner Advantage Program umbrella – introduces several new initiatives focused on accelerating growth, fostering deeper collaboration, and maximizing […]
AWS – Assign billing of your shared Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations
Starting today, you can assign the billing of unused Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCR) to any one of your organization accounts with which the reservation is shared. Capacity Reservations help you reserve compute capacity for any duration and share it across multiple accounts, enabling you to centrally pool and manage your reserved capacity. When […]
AWS – Amazon Verified Permissions is now HIPAA eligible
Amazon Verified Permissions is now a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) eligible service, enabling healthcare and life sciences organizations subject to HIPAA to use the service for permissions management. Amazon Verified Permissions is a permissions management and fine-grained authorization service for the applications that you build. Amazon Verified Permissions uses the Cedar policy language […]
AWS – Amazon EKS now supports using NVIDIA and AWS Neuron accelerated instance types with AL2023
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) optimized accelerated AMIs for Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023). EKS customers can now enjoy the improved security features, optimized boot times, and newer kernel versions of AL2023 for their workloads using NVIDIA GPU, AWS Inferentia, and AWS Trainium instances. These new AMIs are based […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon Q in AWS Supply Chain
Announcing Amazon Q in AWS Supply Chain, an interactive generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) assistant that helps you operate your supply chain more efficiently by analyzing the data in your AWS Supply Chain Data Lake, providing important operational and financial insights, and answering urgent supply chain questions. It reduces the time users spend searching for relevant […]
GCP – Fine-tuning Gemma, the journey from beginning to end
Chatbots are one of the more common, early use cases for generative AI, particularly in retail organizations. To make them useful for shoppers, a chatbot needs to be contextually sensitive to a retailer’s product catalog, with the ability to respond to customer inquiries conversationally, perhaps suggesting alternatives and complementary outfits. To accomplish this, an instruction-tuned […]