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AWS – AWS announces general availability for Security Group Referencing on AWS Transit Gateway
AWS announces the general availability for Security Group Referencing across VPCs connected by the AWS Transit Gateway. With this capability, customers can simplify management of Security Groups and gain a better security posture for their TGW based networks. Customers can configure Security Groups by specifying a list of rules that allow network traffic based on […]

GCP – Meta’s Llama 3.2 is now available on Google Cloud
In July, we announced the addition of Meta’s Llama 3.1 open models to Vertex AI Model Garden. Since then, developers and enterprises have shown tremendous enthusiasm for building with the Llama models. Today, we’re announcing that Llama 3.2, Meta’s new generation of multimodal models, is available on Vertex AI Model Garden. Llama 3.2 is a […]

AWS – AWS CloudTrail launches network activity events for VPC endpoints (preview)
With the launch of AWS CloudTrail network activity for VPC endpoints, you now have additional visibility into AWS API activity that traverses your VPC endpoints, enabling you to strengthen your data perimeter and implement better detective controls. At preview launch, you can enable network activity events for VPC endpoints for four AWS Services: Amazon EC2, AWS […]

AWS – Announcing the new Resources widget on myApplications
Today, we are excited to announce the launch of the new Resources widget on the myApplications dashboard, providing a view of the resources in your applications on AWS. Using the new Resources widget, you can quickly search and discover application resources in the myApplications dashboard. Start by searching for your application in the Applications widget […]

AWS – Announcing Region Expansion of P4d instances on SageMaker Studio notebooks
We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 P4d instances in Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo) on SageMaker Studio notebooks. Amazon EC2 P4d instances are powered by 8 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs and 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. They provide up to 100 Gbps […]

AWS – WorkSpaces Secure Browser announces new session management dashboard
Today, AWS End User Computing announced new session management capabilities for Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser. This update provides administrators with deeper visibility and monitoring insights for day-to-day service management. Administrators may now access a dashboard view from the AWS Console which displays active and historical sessions over the last 35 days. Using the dashboard, administrators […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker with MLflow now supports AWS PrivateLink for secure traffic routing
Amazon SageMaker with MLflow now supports AWS PrivateLink, which enables you to transfer critical data from your virtual private cloud (VPC) to MLflow Tracking Servers in a private, secure, and scalable manner. This capability enhances the protection of sensitive information by ensuring that data sent to the MLflow Tracking Servers is transferred within the AWS […]

AWS – Customize your Amazon SageMaker model deployment software and driver versions
You can now pick the software and driver versions used by the instances that best fits your needs when deploying models on SageMaker. Amazon SageMaker makes it easier to deploy ML models including foundation models (FMs) to make inference requests at the best price performance for any use case. Previously, customers had to use preset […]

GCP – LummaC2: Obfuscation Through Indirect Control Flow
Written by: Nino Isakovic, Chuong Dong Overview This blog post delves into the analysis of a control flow obfuscation technique employed by recent LummaC2 (LUMMAC.V2) stealer samples. In addition to the traditional control flow flattening technique used in older versions, the malware now leverages customized control flow indirection to manipulate the execution of the malware. This […]
GCP – Google Cloud files complaint with European Commission regarding Microsoft’s anti-competitive licensing practices
Cloud-based computing is one of the most important developments in the European economy over the last decade. Moving to the cloud has reduced costs, delivered services with incredible reach, and laid the foundation for entirely new European companies. But legacy licensing practices that force customers onto a single vendor threaten Europe’s ability to take full […]