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GCP – Ransomware Protection and Containment Strategies: Practical Guidance for Hardening and Protecting Infrastructure, Identities and Endpoints
Written by: Matthew McWhirt, Omar ElAhdan, Glenn Staniforth, Brian Meyer Multi-faceted extortion via ransomware and/or data theft is a popular end goal for attackers, representing a global threat targeting organizations in all industries. The impact of a successful ransomware event can be material to an organization, including the loss of access to data, systems, and prolonged […]
AWS – Announcing the general availability of Amazon Q Business and Amazon Q Apps (Preview)
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Q Business and the preview of Amazon Q Apps, a new Amazon Q Business capability. Amazon Q Business revolutionizes the way that employees interact with organizational knowledge and enterprise systems. It helps users get comprehensive answers to complex questions and take actions in a unified, intuitive web-based […]
AWS – Amazon Q Developer is now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Q Developer, a generative AI–powered assistant that reimagines your experience across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). Amazon Q Developer includes unique, game-changing capabilities that allow developers to offload time-consuming, manual tasks inside or outside of AWS. Amazon Q Developer capabilities include Q&A and diagnosing common errors […]
AWS – Amazon Q data integration in AWS Glue is now generally available
Today, AWS announces general availability of Amazon Q data integration, a new generative AI–powered capability of Amazon Q Developer that enables you to build data integration pipelines using natural language. Amazon Q Developer is the AWS expert to assist you with all of your development tasks. Amazon Q data integration is a new chat experience […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Lambda Insights enables you to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize the performance of AWS Lambda functions. Lambda Insights provides you access to automated dashboards summarizing the performance and health of your Lambda functions that provide visibility into issues such as memory leaks or performance […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 16.2, 15.6, 14.11, 13.14, and 12.18
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL versions 16.2, 15.6, 14.11, 13.14, and 12.18. These releases contain product improvements and bug fixes made by the PostgreSQL community, along with Aurora-specific improvements. These releases also offer improved performance through faster COPY operations (for PostgreSQL 16.2), Query Plan Management enhancements for queries with aggregate operations, and optimizations […]
Azure – Public preview: Azure Monitor pipeline (at edge)
We are announcing public preview Azure Monitor pipeline (for edge). With this, we are now extending our Azure Monitor pipeline capabilities from the cloud to the edge, enabling seamless and high-scale data ingestion with centralized configuration management. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Honolulu, Hawaii
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Honolulu, Hawaii. You can now use Local Zones in Honolulu to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing. In this new Local Zone, you can access Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic […]
AWS – AWS Firewall Manager now supports central deployment and management of VPC NACLs with common NACL policies
Starting today, AWS Firewall Manager allows customers to define policies for centrally creating, deploying and managing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Network Access Control List (NACL) rules for their VPC subnets across accounts in their AWS Organization. Additionally, NACL policies provide customers with visibility into policy adherence by reporting the compliance status for each policy. Read […]
AWS – Cohere Command R and Command R+ now available in Amazon Bedrock
You can now access Cohere’s newest state-of-the-art enterprise foundation model family, Command R+ and Command R, in Amazon Bedrock. These generative AI models are highly scalable, optimized for long context tasks like advanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with citations to mitigate hallucinations, multi-step tool use to automate complex business tasks, and are multilingual in 10 languages […]