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GCP – Test it out: an online shopping demo experience with Gemini and RAG
Earlier this year, tens of thousands of developers gathered in Las Vegas for Google Cloud Next ’24, which culminated in hundreds of sessions and over 200 announcements. During the Developer Keynote, we showcased how Gemini can help with the shopping experience of an online store. Let’s dive into this demo and how it all worked […]
GCP – Announcing the 11th Annual Flare-On Challenge
Written by: Nick Harbour When it’s pumpkin spice season, that means it’s also Flare-On Challenge season. The Flare-On Challenge is a reverse engineering contest held every year by the FLARE team, and this marks its eleventh year running. It draws thousands of players from around the world every year, and is the foremost single-player CTF-style […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now generally available
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now generally available, enabling near real-time analytics and machine learning (ML) on petabytes of transactional data. With this launch, you can create multiple zero-ETL integrations from a single Amazon RDS database, and you can apply data filtering for each integration to include or exclude specific […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Serverless is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions
Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Israel (Tel Aviv) regions. With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users, including data analysts, developers, and data scientists, can use Amazon Redshift to get […]
AWS – Announcing sticky session routing for Amazon SageMaker Inference
Today, we are announcing the availability of sticky session routing on Amazon SageMaker Inference which helps customers improve the performance and user experience of their generative AI applications by leveraging their previously processed information. Amazon SageMaker makes it easier to deploy ML models including foundation models (FMs) to make inference requests at the best price […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall now supports AWS PrivateLink
AWS Network Firewall now supports AWS PrivateLink. Customers can now access and manage their Network Firewalls privately, without going through the public internet. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises applications, securely over the Amazon network. When AWS PrivateLink is used with AWS Network Firewall, all management and control traffic between […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 R6in and R6idn instances are now available in an additional region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6in and R6idn instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Sydney). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, 2x more network bandwidth, and up to 2x higher […]
AWS – AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports storage optimization of Apache Iceberg tables
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports storage optimization of Apache Iceberg tables by automatically removing data files that are no longer needed. Each write to an Iceberg table creates a new snapshot, or version, of a table. In addition, any failures during writing to Iceberg tables will create data files that aren’t referenced in snapshots […]
AWS – AWS Backup Audit Manager adds new control to audit resources inside logically air-gapped vault
Today, AWS Backup announces a new AWS Backup Audit Manager control, allowing you to audit and check if a resource’s backup data is in a logically air-gapped vault. With this launch, you can assess if a backup was copied inside a logically air-gapped within a specified time frame, and evaluate whether it meets your business […]
AWS – Amazon ECR announces support for dual-layer server-side encryption in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now supports dual-layer server-side encryption in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This capability allows you to apply two independent layers of server-side encryption to images stored in Amazon ECR. Dual-layer server-side encryption with keys stored in AWS Key Management Service (DSSE-KMS) enables you to meet stronger compliance and regulatory requirements […]