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GCP – Ghost in the Router: China-Nexus Espionage Actor UNC3886 Targets Juniper Routers
Written by: Lukasz Lamparski, Punsaen Boonyakarn, Shawn Chew, Frank Tse, Jakub Jozwiak, Mathew Potaczek, Logeswaran Nadarajan, Nick Harbour, Mustafa Nasser Introduction In mid 2024, Mandiant discovered threat actors deployed custom backdoors on Juniper Networks’ Junos OS routers. Mandiant attributed these backdoors to the China-nexus espionage group, UNC3886. Mandiant uncovered several TINYSHELL based backdoors operating on […]
GCP – Companies achieve stronger results with Customer Engagement Suite, plus new AI-enabled capabilities
The demands for top-notch customer service have never been greater — but so are the rewards for those companies that can deliver on the promise. Indeed, organizations with higher customer loyalty scores have delivered 3.5 times more cumulative shareholder return over 10 years, according to Bain & Company. While technology has largely fueled these rising […]
GCP – How to deploy serverless AI with Gemma 3 on Cloud Run
Today, we introduced Gemma 3, a family of lightweight, open models built with the cutting-edge technology behind Gemini 2.0. The Gemma 3 family of models have been designed for speed and portability, empowering developers to build sophisticated AI applications at scale. Combined with Cloud Run, it has never been easier to deploy your serverless workloads […]
AWS – Amazon Nova Creative Models now available in Europe
Today, Amazon announces the expansion of Amazon Nova creative models, including Amazon Nova Canvas and Amazon Nova Reel, to Europe (Dublin). These models are designed to generate high-quality images and videos from text and image inputs, providing customizable visual content for various applications. This expansion addresses the growing demand for automated, high-quality visual content generation, […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Allowed AMIs now integrates with AWS Config
Allowed AMIs, an account-wide Amazon EC2 setting that enables you to limit the discovery and use of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) within your AWS accounts, now integrates with AWS Config. You can now use AWS Config rules to automatically monitor, detect, and report instances launched using AMIs that have not been allowed by Allowed AMIs. […]
GCP – How Google Cloud measures its climate impact through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
As AI creates opportunities for business growth and societal benefits, we’re working to reduce their carbon intensity through efforts like optimizing software, improving hardware efficiency, and supporting our operations with carbon-free energy. At Google, we’re committed to understanding the entirety of our environmental impact so we can apply the best, boldest, and most holistic solutions. […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 R7i instances are now available in an additional AWS region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7i instances are available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. Amazon EC2 R7i instances are powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids), available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. R7i […]
AWS – Accelerate serverless development with ready-to-use Serverless Land Patterns in Visual Studio Code
AWS makes it easier for developers to build serverless applications by bringing Serverless Land’s extensive application pattern library directly into the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) IDE. This integration eliminates the need to switch between your development environment and external resources when building serverless architectures by enabling you to browse, search, and implement pre-built serverless […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge expands IAM execution role support to all targets
Amazon EventBridge expands execution role support to AWS Lambda, Amazon SNS, and Amazon SQS event bus targets, making this feature available for all target types. We recommend configuring execution roles for all your EventBridge targets to benefit from consistent permissions policies and dedicated invocation throttle limits. Amazon EventBridge Event Bus is a serverless event broker […]
AWS – Amazon GameLift Servers launches Game Server Wrapper for rapid onboarding
We’re excited to introduce the Amazon GameLift Servers Game Server Wrapper, an open-source tool that helps significantly reduce the time required for game developers to onboard their game servers. Developers told us they faced significant overhead integrating the Server SDK, including dependency management and custom code implementation. The Game Server Wrapper solves these challenges by […]