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AWS – Amazon QuickSight now includes nested filters
Amazon QuickSight includes a new advanced filter type: nested filters. Authors can use a nested filter to use one field in a dataset to filter another field in the dataset. You might know this by another name such as in SQL this would be known as a correlated sub-query and in shopping analysis this would […]
AWS – Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku now available in more regions
Beginning today, Amazon Bedrock customers in US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) can now access Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Additionally, Amazon Bedrock customers in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) can now access Claude 3 Haiku. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is Anthropic’s latest foundation model and ranks among the most […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Europe (Paris) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 9TiB of memory (u-9tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Europe (Paris) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart […]
AWS – Amazon EFS now supports up to 30 GiB/s (a 50% increase) of read throughput
Amazon EFS provides serverless, fully elastic file storage that makes it simple to set up and run file workloads in the AWS cloud. In March 2024, we increased the Elastic Throughput read throughput limit to 20 GiB/s (from 10 GiB/s) to support the growing demand for read-heavy workloads such as AI and machine learning. Now, […]
AWS – Announcing delegated administrator for Cost Optimization Hub
Cost Optimization Hub is an AWS Billing and Cost Management feature that helps you consolidate and prioritize cost optimization recommendations, so that you can get the most out of your AWS spend. Starting today, you can designate a member account as the delegated administrator, allowing that account to view cost optimization recommendations in the Cost […]
GCP – Level up your Kubernetes security with the CIS GKE Benchmarks
Compliance efforts can feel like a challenging endeavor in most organizations. Engineering teams routinely don’t understand how often-confusing requirements will actually make the organization more secure. Sometimes, even the words that define compliance requirements can be hard to comprehend. The entire exercise can feel overwhelming, like being on an endless security treadmill. At Google Cloud, […]
GCP – Real-time in no time: Introducing BigQuery continuous queries for up-to-the-minute insights
The world operates in real time: Customers make purchases, financial transactions are made, goods are shipped, sensors generate data, and security threats emerge. The sheer volume of data generated by these real-time events is staggering. Yet, many businesses still rely on traditional, batch-oriented analysis that struggles to keep pace. Among data analysts and engineers, BigQuery […]
AWS – Announcing G4dn WorkSpaces Personal bundles with WSP for Windows
Amazon WorkSpaces is introducing G4dn WorkSpaces Personal bundles with WSP (WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol) for Windows. Now you can run your graphics-intensive and accelerated applications on Windows using G4dn WorkSpaces with WSP on AWS. The Graphics G4dn bundles offer cost-effective solutions for graphics applications optimized for NVIDIA GPUs using NVIDIA libraries such as CUDA, CuDNN, OptiX, […]
AWS – Amazon Cognito enhances Advanced Security Features (ASF) to disallow password reuse and stream security events
Amazon Cognito enhances Advanced Security Features (ASF) to address additional enterprise needs. You now have the option to disallow users from reusing previous passwords, helping you address compliance needs. Additionally, you now have the option to stream security events from ASF to an Amazon S3 bucket, Amazon Kinesis Firehose, or CloudWatch Insights. This allows you […]
AWS – Introducing Titan Image Generator v2 now available on Amazon Bedrock
We’re excited to announce the launch of Amazon Titan Image Generator v2, a new image generation model which brings to customers additional control and flexibility – including image conditioning using ControlNet, subject consistency, and background removal. With Amazon Titan Image Generator v2 image conditioning, you can use a reference image to guide the generation of […]