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AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports configuring a minimum firing period for alerts
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports the ability to configure the minimum duration for which an alert remains active, after the condition that triggered the alert is no longer valid. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Agents now provides Conversational Builder
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Conversational Builder for Amazon Bedrock Agents which provides a chat interface for you to use to build your Bedrock Agents. With the Conversational Builder, you can chat with an assistant that will guide you through building an agent and create your agent based off natural language instructions. The […]
AWS – Amazon Corretto October, 2024 Quarterly Updates
On October 15, 2024 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) and Feature Release (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 23.0.1, 21.0.5, 17.0.13, 11.0.25, 8u432 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Click on the Corretto home page to download Corretto 8, […]
AWS – Announcing AWS DMS Serverless support for MongoDB and DocDB as a source
AWS Database Migration Service Serverless (AWS DMSS) now supports MongoDB and Amazon DocDB as data sources. Using AWS DMSS, you can now migrate data from MongoDB and Amazon DocDB to a variety of data targets. AWS DMSS now shows MongoDB and Amazon DocDB as options when defining endpoints which can then be used as sources […]
AWS – AWS CloudShell now supports Amazon Q CLI
Today, we are announcing the integration of Amazon Q CLI into CloudShell, the embedded terminal experience in the AWS Management Console. The command line is used by over thirty million engineers to write, build, run, debug, and deploy software. However, despite how critical it is to the software development process, the command line is challenging […]
GCP – Google Cloud Marketplace private offer enhancements unlock enterprise and AI use cases
When it comes to purchasing technology for different departments and business units that operate across the globe, enterprise customers need flexibility and choice. This needs to extend to the technology, including generative AI solutions, that integrate with a customer’s Google Cloud environment and that are procured through Google Cloud Marketplace. Google Cloud Marketplace offers a […]
GCP – Welcome to Google Public Sector Summit 2024
Today, Google Public Sector is gathering customers and partners in Washington, D.C. for its annual Google Public Sector Summit, an event focusing on the “art of the possible” in AI, cybersecurity, and data analysis for government customers. In 2023, we gathered the government technology community to explore and share best practices on how to get […]
GCP – Beyond the basics: Build real-world gen AI skills with the latest learning paths from Google Cloud
The majority of organizations don’t feel ready for the AI era. In fact, 62% say they don’t have the expertise they need to unlock AI’s full potential.1 As the leader of learning for Google Cloud, the only thing that surprises me about that number is how low it is. I meet with customers every day, […]
GCP – From AI to Zero Trust: Google Cloud Security delivers comprehensive solutions for the public sector
Government organizations and agencies face significant challenges from threat actors seeking to compromise data and critical infrastructure, and impact national and economic stability. These attacks target a broad range of industries and organizations, from water security to rural health care, via external targeting and insider threats. Government organizations are in the top five industries targeted […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances are now available in additional AWS Regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex instances that deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances, are available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Europe (Frankfurt) regions. C7i-flex instances expand the EC2 Flex instances portfolio to provide the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a majority […]