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GCP – Realizing AI’s Full Potential where Workforce, Security, & Collaboration Matter
AI is rapidly reshaping the public sector, ushering in a new era of intelligent and AI-powered service delivery and mission impact. Chief AI Officers (CAIOs) and other agency leaders play a critical role as AI becomes more pervasive. At Google, we’ve long believed that AI is a foundational and transformational technology, with the potential to […]
GCP – Google Cloud NetApp Volumes now available for OpenShift on Google Cloud
As a result of new joint efforts across NetApp, Red Hat and Google Cloud, we are announcing support for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes in OpenShift on Google Cloud through NetApp Trident Version 24.10. This enables joint customers to take advantage of Google Cloud infrastructure that’s optimized for OpenShift, reduce operational toil, and streamline migration of […]
GCP – New ways to protect your sensitive data with Chrome Enterprise
Protecting sensitive company data is no longer just a best practice—it’s business critical. In today’s world, data breaches can have serious consequences, from financial losses and reputational damage to legal repercussions and operational disruptions. That’s why Chrome Enterprise Premium, our advanced secure enterprise browser offering, includes a growing suite of Data Loss Prevention (DLP) capabilities […]
GCP – Empowering Gemini for Malware Analysis with Code Interpreter and Google Threat Intelligence
One of Google Cloud’s major missions is to arm security professionals with modern tools to help them defend against the latest threats. Part of that mission involves moving closer to a more autonomous, adaptive approach in threat intelligence automation. In our latest advancements in malware analysis, we’re equipping Gemini with new capabilities to address obfuscation […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 X2iezn instances are now available in additional AWS region
Starting today, memory optimized Amazon EC2 X2iezn instances are available in Middle East (UAE). Amazon EC2 X2iezn instances are powered by 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all core turbo frequency of up to 4.5 GHz, the fastest in the cloud. These instances are a great fit for electronic design automation (EDA) workloads […]
AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise announces new generative AI-powered industrial assistant
AWS IoT SiteWise is a managed service that simplifies the collection, organization, and monitoring of industrial equipment data at scale. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of AWS IoT SiteWise Assistant, a generative AI-powered assistant in AWS IoT SiteWise that allows industrial users to gain insights, solve problems, and take actions from […]
AWS – Amazon EKS simplifies providing IAM permissions to EKS add-ons
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now offers a direct integration between EKS add-ons and EKS Pod Identity, streamlining the lifecycle management process for critical cluster operational software that needs to interact with AWS services outside the cluster. EKS add-ons that enable integration with underlying AWS resources need IAM permissions to interact with AWS services. EKS […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.08 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.39) is generally available
Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) will support MySQL 8.0.39. In addition to several security enhancements and bug fixes, MySQL 8.0.39 contains enhancements that improve database availability when handling large number of tables and reduce InnoDB issues related to redo logging, and index handling. Aurora MySQL 3.08 also includes multiple […]
AWS – AWS Chatbot adds support for chatting about AWS resources with Amazon Q Developer in Microsoft Teams and Slack
We are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Q Developer in AWS Chatbot, which provides answers to customers’ AWS resource related queries in Microsoft Teams and Slack. When issues occur, customers need to quickly find relevant resources to troubleshoot issues. Customer can now ask questions in natural language in chat channels to list […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB announces general availability of attribute-based access control
Amazon DynamoDB is a serverless, NoSQL, fully managed database with single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. Today, we are announcing the general availability of attribute-based access control (ABAC) support for tables and indexes in all AWS Commercial Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. ABAC is an authorization strategy that lets you define access permissions […]