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GCP – Shift-left your cloud compliance auditing with Audit Manager
Cloud compliance can present significant regulatory and technical challenges for organizations. These complexities often include delineating compliance responsibilities and accountabilities between the customer and cloud provider. At Google Cloud, we understand these challenges faced by our customers’ cloud engineering, compliance, and audit teams, and want to help make them easier to manage. That’s why we’re […]
GCP – What’s new with HPC and AI infrastructure at Google Cloud
At Google Cloud, we’re rapidly advancing our high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities, providing researchers and engineers with powerful tools and infrastructure to tackle the most demanding computational challenges. Here’s a look at some of the key developments driving HPC innovation on Google Cloud, as well as our presence at Supercomputing 2024. You can also stay apprised […]
GCP – AlloyDB Omni supercharges performance: Faster transactions, analytics, and vector search
AlloyDB Omni is back with a new release, version 15.7.0, and it’s bringing serious enhancements to your PostgreSQL workflows, including: Faster performance A new ultra-fast disk cache An enhanced columnar engine The general availability of ScANN vector indexing A new release of the AlloyDB Omni Kubernetes operator From transactional and analytical workloads to cutting-edge vector […]
AWS – Amazon S3 now supports up to 1 million buckets per AWS account
Amazon S3 has increased the default bucket quota from 100 to 10,000 per AWS account. Additionally, any customer can request a quota increase up to 1 million buckets. As a result, customers can create new buckets for individual datasets that they store in S3 to more easily take advantage of capabilities such as default encryption, […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches self serve Brand Customization
Amazon QuickSight launches self serve brand customization which allows QuickSight admins with relevant AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions to align QuickSight’s user interface with their organization’s brand by modifying visual elements like brand colors and logo. This creates a cohesive look and feel that aligns with their organization’s identity. Brand customization includes customization […]
AWS – Amazon IVS introduces Multitrack Video to save input costs
Today we are launching Multitrack Video, a new capability in Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) which can save you up to 75% on live video input costs with standard channels. With Multitrack Video, you send multiple video quality renditions directly from your own device instead of using Amazon IVS for transcoding. Multitrack Video is […]
GCP – Use AI to build AI: Save time on prompt design with AI-powered prompt writing
Crafting the perfect prompt for generative AI models can be an art in itself. The difference between a useful and a generic AI response can sometimes be a well-crafted prompt. But, getting there often requires time-consuming tweaking, iteration, and a learning curve. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce new updates to the AI-powered prompt writing […]
AWS – AWS Partner Central now provides API for Selling with AWS
Today, AWS introduces the AWS Partner Central API for Selling, enabling AWS Partners to integrate their Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems with AWS Partner Central. This API allows partners to streamline and scale their co-selling process by automating the creation and management of APN Customer Engagements (ACE) opportunities within their own CRM. This API provides […]
AWS – AWS Backup now supports Amazon Neptune in three new Regions
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup support for Amazon Neptune in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Osaka) and Africa (Cape Town) Regions. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon Neptune along with other AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and […]
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) reduces prices by up to 75%
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service. Effective Today, Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is reducing prices by up to 75% across several pricing dimensions. Amazon Keyspaces supports both on-demand and provisioned capacity modes for writing and reading data within a Region or across […]