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AWS – IAM Identity Center extends sessions and TIP management capabilities for customers with Microsoft AD
AWS IAM Identity Center enhanced its session management and trusted identity propagation (TIP) capabilities for customers that connect Microsoft Active Directory (AD) as their identity source. The enhanced capabilities help customers manage user sessions, scale their use of AWS applications, such as Amazon Q Developer Pro, and implement use cases, such as for analytics, with […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker now offers 9 additional visual ETL transforms
Visual ETL in Amazon SageMaker now offers 9 new built-in transforms: “Derived column”, “Flatten”, “Add current timestamp”, “Explode array or map into rows”, “To timestamp”, “Array to columns”, “Intersect”, “Limit” and “Concatenate columns”. Visual ETL in Amazon SageMaker provides a drag-and-drop interface for building ETL flows and authoring flows with Amazon Q Developer. With these […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Proxy announces TLS 1.3 support for PostgreSQL on Aurora and RDS
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy now supports version 1.3 of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol for Proxy connections to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and RDS for PostgreSQL database instances. TLS 1.3 provides improved security through stronger cryptographic algorithms and simplified handshake process as compared to older TLS versions. With this release, RDS Proxy can […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now allows supervisors to take additional actions on in-progress chats
Amazon Connect now allows supervisors to take additional actions on in-progress chats directly from the Amazon Connect UI, accelerating issue resolution and improving customer satisfaction. For example, supervisors can now end chats with inactive customers or reassign chats to specific agents or queues. To learn more, please refer to the help documentation or visit the […]
GCP – Instance Replication now available for Filestore
We are excited to announce Filestore Instance Replication on Google Cloud, which helps customers meet their business continuity goals and regulatory requirements. The feature offers an efficient replication point objective (RPO) that can reach 30 minutes for data change rates of 100 MB/sec. Our customers have been telling us they need to meet regulatory and […]
GCP – Google, Bytedance, and Red Hat make Kubernetes generative AI inference aware
Over the past ten years, Kubernetes has become the leading platform for deploying cloud-native applications and microservices, backed by an extensive community and boasting a comprehensive feature set for managing distributed systems. Today, we are excited to share that Kubernetes is now unlocking new possibilities for generative AI inference. In partnership with Red Hat and […]
GCP – Introducing Multi-Cluster Orchestrator: Scale your Kubernetes workloads across regions
Today, we’re excited to announce the public preview of Multi-Cluster Orchestrator, a new service designed to streamline and simplify the management of workloads across Kubernetes clusters. Multi-Cluster Orchestrator lets platform and application teams optimize resource utilization, enhance application resilience, and accelerate innovation in complex, multi-cluster environments. As organizations increasingly adopt Kubernetes to deploy and manage […]
GCP – GKE at 65,000 nodes: Evaluating performance for simulated mixed AI workloads
At Google Cloud, we’re continuously working on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) scalability so it can run increasingly demanding workloads. Recently, we announced that GKE can support a massive 65,000-node cluster, up from 15,000 nodes. This signals a new era of possibilities, especially for AI workloads and their ever-increasing demand for large-scale infrastructure. This groundbreaking achievement […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches dashboard versioning and publish any analysis to any dashboard
Amazon QuickSight launches dashboard versioning and the ability to publish any analysis to replace any dashboard to improve author productivity. Dashboard versioning enables authors to view and easily re-publish previously published versions of their dashboards as well as the notes on what updates were made by whom. Publishing any analysis to any dashboard means that […]
AWS – Announcing the general availability seventh quarterly update for Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), AL2023.7
Amazon Linux now brings a Graphical Desktop, a new kernel option with Linux kernel 6.12, an upgraded OpenSSL to version 3.2.2, and addition of new high demand packages on AL2023. AL2023.7 offers a modern, secure, and cloud-optimized desktop environment to Amazon Linux users. The new Graphical Desktop provides a lightweight interface designed for productivity and […]