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AWS – Customize your Amazon SageMaker model deployment software and driver versions
You can now pick the software and driver versions used by the instances that best fits your needs when deploying models on SageMaker. Amazon SageMaker makes it easier to deploy ML models including foundation models (FMs) to make inference requests at the best price performance for any use case. Previously, customers had to use preset […]
GCP – LummaC2: Obfuscation Through Indirect Control Flow
Written by: Nino Isakovic, Chuong Dong Overview This blog post delves into the analysis of a control flow obfuscation technique employed by recent LummaC2 (LUMMAC.V2) stealer samples. In addition to the traditional control flow flattening technique used in older versions, the malware now leverages customized control flow indirection to manipulate the execution of the malware. This […]
GCP – Google Cloud files complaint with European Commission regarding Microsoft’s anti-competitive licensing practices
Cloud-based computing is one of the most important developments in the European economy over the last decade. Moving to the cloud has reduced costs, delivered services with incredible reach, and laid the foundation for entirely new European companies. But legacy licensing practices that force customers onto a single vendor threaten Europe’s ability to take full […]
GCP – How Kirklees Council brought digital inclusion to its communities with ChromeOS
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Charles Crossland, IT Change Manager for Kirklees Council, a borough of 425,000 in north-central England. Kirklees Council chose ChromeOS devices with managed guest sessions to expand digital outreach to residents through public digital hubs and loaner devices. At Kirklees Council, we strive to be a community that combines a […]
AWS – AWS Resilience Hub extends support for Amazon ElastiCache
AWS Resilience Hub has expanded its capabilities to assess applications that include Amazon ElastiCache. Resilience Hub serves as a centralized platform to define, validate, and monitor the resilience of your applications, helping you avoid unnecessary downtime because of software, infrastructure, or operational disruptions. For applications using Amazon ElastiCache, including ElastiCache Serverless and Global Datastores, AWS […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Grafana now supports silences for Grafana alerts
You can now use silences to suppress alert notifications for Grafana alerts in Amazon Managed Grafana. Grafana alerts enable you to proactively monitor your data and receive notifications about critical issues in real time. Silences allow you to temporarily disable notifications from specific alerts, for a specified duration. Silences reduce alert fatigue during scheduled maintenances, […]
AWS – AWS Resource Explore now supports discovery of all tagged AWS resources
AWS Resource Explorer introduced a new search operator that powers the complete discovery of tagged AWS resources across Services, AWS Regions, and AWS accounts. Customers use Resource Explorer to discover both tagged and untagged resources for resource types with full Resource Explorer support. Starting today, customers can specifically request to query all of their tagged […]
AWS – Amazon S3 to apply a default minimum object size for S3 Lifecycle transition rules
Amazon S3 is beginning to apply a default minimum object size of 128 KB for S3 Lifecycle transition rules to any S3 storage class. This change can help optimize your transition costs for datasets with many kilobyte-sized objects by reducing the number of transition requests. You can override this new default and customize the minimum […]
AWS – WorkSpaces Secure Browser now supports FIPS 140-3 validated cryptography
Today, AWS End User Computing Services announced that customers can use Federal Information Processing Standard 140-3 (FIPS) validated cryptography endpoints with their WorkSpaces Secure Browser portals. FIPS 140-3 is a U.S. and Canadian government standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive information. WorkSpaces Secure Browser FIPS endpoints use FIPS-validated cryptographic […]
AWS – Valkey GLIDE v1.1, a client for Valkey and Redis OSS, now supports Node.js
Today, we are announcing Node.js support for Valkey General Language Independent Driver for Enterprise (GLIDE). GLIDE is an open source client library for Valkey, an open source key-value data store that supports a variety of workloads such as caching and message queues. With this launch, GLIDE supports Java, Python, and Node.js. GLIDE is one of […]