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AWS – Three new Long-Form Voices
The Amazon Polly Long-Form engine now introduces two voices in Spanish and one in US English. Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing our customers to build speech-enabled products matching their business needs. Today, we add three new long-form voices to our premium Polly Text-to-Speech (TTS) line of products that […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service adds supports for two new third party plugins
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports two new third party plugins- encryption plugin from Portal26.ai and Name Match plugin from Babel Street. These are optional plugins that you can choose to associate with your OpenSearch Service clusters. The encryption plugin from Portal26.ai uses NIST FIPS 140-2 certified encryption to encrypt the data as it gets indexed […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 2.17
You can now run OpenSearch version 2.17 in Amazon OpenSearch Service. With OpenSearch 2.17, we have made several improvements in the areas of vector search, query performance and machine learning (ML) toolkit to help accelerate application development and enable generative AI workloads. This launch introduces disk-optimized vector search, a new option for the vector engine […]
AWS – Customers can now make payments using SEPA accounts in Five EU countries
Customers in UK, Spain, Netherlands and Belgium can now create an AWS Account using their bank account. Upon signup, customers with a billing address in these countries can now securely connect their bank account which supports the Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA) standard. SEPA direct debit is a popular payment method in Europe, widely used […]
AWS – AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.13
AWS Lambda now supports creating serverless applications using Python 3.13. Developers can use Python 3.13 as both a managed runtime and a container base image, and AWS will automatically apply updates to the managed runtime and base image as they become available. Python 3.13 is the latest long-term support (LTS) release of Python and is […]
GCP – How to deploy Llama 3.2-1B-Instruct model with Google Cloud Run GPU
As open-source large language models (LLMs) become increasingly popular, developers are looking for better ways to access new models and deploy them on Cloud Run GPU. That’s why Cloud Run now offers fully managed NVIDIA GPUs, which removes the complexity of driver installations and library configurations. This means you’ll benefit from the same on-demand availability […]
GCP – Secure your data ecosystem: a multi-layered approach with Google Cloud
It’s an exciting time in the world of data and analytics, with more organizations harnessing the power of data and AI to help transform and grow their businesses. But in a threat landscape with increasingly sophisticated attacks around every corner, ensuring the security and integrity of that data is critical. Google Cloud offers a comprehensive […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: The high security cost of legacy tech
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for November 2024. Today I’m joined by Andy Wen, Google Cloud’s senior director of product management for Google Workspace, to discuss a new Google survey into the high security costs of legacy tech. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the […]
GCP – Transforming DoD’s data utilization with generative AI
Generative AI presents both immense opportunities and challenges for the Department of Defense (DoD). The potential to enhance situational awareness, streamline tasks, and improve decision-making is significant. However, the DoD’s unique requirements, especially their stringent security standards for cloud services (IL5), necessitate carefully crafted AI solutions that balance innovation with security. The DoD’s 2023 Data, […]
GCP – Pirates in the Data Sea: AI Enhancing Your Adversarial Emulation
Matthijs Gielen, Jay Christiansen Background New solutions, old problems. Artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) are here to signal a new day in the cybersecurity world, but what does that mean for us—the attackers and defenders—and our battle to improve security through all the noise? Data is everywhere. For most organizations, the access […]