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AWS – Amazon S3 Access Grants is now available in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region
You can now create Amazon S3 Access Grants in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region. Amazon S3 Access Grants map identities in directories such as Microsoft Entra ID, or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals, to datasets in S3. This helps you manage data permissions at scale by automatically granting S3 access to end […]
AWS – Six new synthetic generative voices for Amazon Polly
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of six highly expressive Amazon Polly generative voices in English, French, Spanish, and German. Amazon Polly is a managed service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk and to build speech-enabled products depending on your business needs. The generative engine […]
AWS – AWS CodeBuild now supports additional compute types for reserved capacity
AWS CodeBuild now supports 18 new compute options for your reserved capacity fleets. You can select up to 96 vCPUs and 192 GB of memory to build and test your software applications on Linux x86, Arm, and Windows platforms. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Access Grants now integrate with Amazon Redshift
Amazon S3 Access Grants now integrate with Amazon Redshift. S3 Access Grants map identities from your Identity Provider (IdP), such as Entra ID and Okta, to datasets stored in Amazon S3, helping you to easily manage data permissions at scale. This integration gives customers the ability to manage S3 permissions for Redshift users, without the […]
GCP – (In)tuned to Takeovers: Abusing Intune Permissions for Lateral Movement and Privilege Escalation in Entra ID Native Environments
Written by: Thibault Van Geluwe de Berlaere, Karl Madden, Corné de Jong The Mandiant Red Team recently supported a client to visualize the possible impact of a compromise by an advanced threat actor. During the assessment, Mandiant moved laterally from the customer’s on-premises environment to their Microsoft Entra ID tenant and obtained privileges to compromise […]
AWS – Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku model now available in Amazon Bedrock
Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku model is now available in Amazon Bedrock. Claude 3.5 Haiku is the next generation of Anthropic’s fastest model, combining rapid response times with improved reasoning capabilities, making it ideal for tasks that require both speed and intelligence. Claude 3.5 Haiku improves across every skill set and surpasses even Claude 3 Opus, […]
AWS – Announcing enhanced support for medical imaging data with lossy compression
Today, HealthImaging launched enhancements that better handle lossy compressed medical imaging data. Some medical images, such as whole slide microscopy, ultrasound, and cardiology, utilize lossy image compression. With this feature launch, HealthImaging better supports lossy encoded data, and helps lower storage costs. The HealthImaging import process encodes most image frames (pixel data) in the High-Throughput […]
AWS – Amazon SES adds inline template support to send email APIs
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now allows customers to provide email templates directly within the SendBulkEmail or SendEmail API request. SES will use the provided inline template content to render and assemble the email content for delivery, reducing the need to manage template resources in your SES account. Previously, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) customers […]
AWS – Amazon Q Business adds simplified setup and new web app experience
Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, generative AI–powered assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems. Amazon Q Business now offers a simplified onboarding that helps administrators deliver a secure AI assistant quickly and a web app experience that allows […]
GCP – Can AI eliminate manual processing for insurance claims? Loadsure built a solution to find
Traditionally, insurance claims processing has been a labor-intensive and time-consuming process, often involving manual verification of documents and data entry. This can lead to delays in claim settlements and a frustrating experience for policyholders. Loadsure, a global Insurtech firm based in London, recognized the need to address these challenges and sought a solution that would […]