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AWS – Meta Llama 3 foundation models now available on AWS
Starting today, the next generation of the Meta Llama models, Llama 3, is now available via Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a machine learning (ML) hub that offers pretrained models, built-in algorithms, and pre-built solutions to help you quickly get started with ML. You can deploy and use Llama 3 foundation models with a few clicks in SageMaker […]
AWS – AWS Partner Central launches enhanced user management capabilities
AWS Partner Central has enhanced the user management experience in AWS Partner Central with a modernized look and feel and more customized capabilities. Now, alliance leads and alliance team users can assign specific user roles with distinctive permission sets and seamlessly invite new users to register via email, specifying a role assignment upon registration. These […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon Neptune connector for Nodestream, Parquet, and SBOM
Today, we are announcing the availability of the Amazon Neptune connector for Nodestream, the Parquet input file format for Nodestream, and the Nodestream Security Bill Of Material (SBOM) plug-in for CycloneDX and SPDX file formats. Read More for the details.
Azure – GA: Azure Monitor log search alerts support managed identities
A common challenge for developers is the management of credentials for applications to use when connecting to resources. Managed identities provide an automatically managed identity in Microsoft Entra ID. Applications can use managed identities to obtain Microsoft Entra tokens without having to manage any credentials. Read More for the details.
AWS – New self-service tasks for Services Partners in AWS Partner Central
AWS Partners with services solutions will now have additional guidance available through the tasks feature in AWS Partner Central to help expediate their self-service journey with AWS. With this release, partners in the early stages of their engagement with the AWS Partner Network (APN) will be provided with a series of personalized tasks guiding them toward […]
AWS – AWS Partner CRM Connector now supports future dated agreements
Starting today, Partners can leverage the AWS Partner CRM Connector for Salesforce to create offers for future dated agreements and agreement based offers, providing greater flexibility and control over offer management and integration within AWS Marketplace. Future dated agreements allows you to schedule service start dates to begin in the future. Partners can also access […]
AWS – Amazon SQS announces support for FIFO dead-letter queue redrive in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces support for dead-letter queue redrive for FIFO queues in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Dead-letter queue redrive is an enhanced capability to improve the dead-letter queue management experience for Amazon SQS customers. Amazon SQS already supports redriving messages from a standard dead-letter queue to a standard source queues […]
Azure – Using Azure Virtual Network Manager network groups in security admin rules is now in public preview
Using your Azure Virtual Network Manager network groups in the source and/or destination of security admin rules is now in public preview, enabling users to achieve network isolation across different environments and manage network segments more easily at scale. Read More for the details.
GCP – Innovating in patent search: How IPRally leverages AI with Google Kubernetes Engine and Ray
Patent-search platform provider IPRally is growing quickly, servicing global enterprises, IP law firms, and multiple national patent and trademark offices. As the company grows, so do its technology needs. It continues to train its models for greater accuracy, adding 200,000 searchable records for customer access weekly, and mapping new patents. With millions of patent documents […]
GCP – 28 startups that launched at Next ‘24
Returning from Google Cloud Next ‘24, we couldn’t be more excited with the different ways that startups are working with Google Cloud and leveraging it to grow and help their businesses. As part of our programming in the Startup Lounge, 28 startups launched new products and features during their time with us in Las Vegas. […]