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GCP – Privacy-preserving data sharing now generally available with BigQuery data clean rooms
The rise of data collaboration and use of external data sources highlights the need for robust privacy and compliance measures. In this evolving data ecosystem, businesses are turning to clean rooms to share data inĀ low-trust environments. Clean rooms enable secure analysis of sensitive data assets, allowing organizations to unlock insights without compromising on privacy. […]

GCP – Get started with differential privacy and privacy budgeting in BigQuery data clean rooms
We are excited to announce that differential privacy enforcement with privacy budgeting is now available in BigQuery data clean rooms to help organizations prevent data from being reidentified when it is shared. Differential privacy is an anonymization technique that limits the personal information that is revealed in a query output. Differential privacy is considered to […]

Azure – Azure Virtual Network Manager Security Admin Rule generally available in 45 regions
Azure Virtual Network Manager’s security admin rule configuration is now generally available in 45 regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally. Read More for the details.

AWS – Cross-account observability enabled for CloudWatch Internet Monitor
You can now set up cross-account observability for Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor, so that you can get read-only access to monitors from multiple accounts within an AWS Region. Deploying applications by using resources in separate accounts is a good practice, to establish security and billing boundaries between teams and reduce the impact of operational events. […]

AWS – Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 G6 instances
Today we are announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs. G6 instances can be used for a wide range of graphics-intensive and machine learning use cases. G6 instances deliver up to 2x higher performance for deep learning inference and graphics workloads compared to Amazon EC2 G4dn […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker notebooks now support P5, C6i, C7i, M6i, M7i, R6i, and R7i instance types
We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 P5, C6i, C7i, M6i, M7i, R6i, and R7i instances on SageMaker notebooks. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS IAM Identity Center is now available in the Europe (Spain) AWS Region and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) AWS Regions
You can now deploy AWS IAM Identity Center in the Europe (Spain) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) AWS Regions. With the addition of these AWS Regions, IAM Identity Center is now available in 32 AWS Regions globally. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Lambda adds support for Ruby 3.3
AWS Lambda now supports creating serverless applications using Ruby 3.3. Developers can use Ruby 3.3 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. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports enrichment of streaming data with geographical location
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now enables you to enrich events with geographical location data from an IP address, allowing you to add additional context to your observability and security data in realtime. Additionally, you can configure mapping templates in Amazon OpenSearch clusters to automatically display these enriched events on a geographical map using OpenSearch Dashboards. Read […]
AWS – AWS Application Migration Service now supports migration of UEFI servers
Starting today, you can use AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) to migrate Linux servers with UEFI boot mode. Read More for the details.