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GCP – Google Cloud Private Marketplace, now GA, helps control costs and maintain governance
Developers and business users often need to access specialized applications and tools to help them work faster, more productively, and more resourcefully. At the same time, cloud administrators and IT, finance (FinOps), and procurement managers need to maintain governance and control over the software and technologies in use to mitigate “shadow IT”. This includes ensuring […]
GCP – UNC4393 Goes Gently into the SILENTNIGHT
Written by: Josh Murchie, Ashley Pearson, Joseph Pisano, Jake Nicastro, Joshua Shilko, Raymond Leong Overview In mid-2022, Mandiant’s Managed Defense detected multiple intrusions involving QAKBOT, leading to the deployment of BEACON coupled with other pre-ransomware indicators. This marked Mandiant’s initial identification of UNC4393, the primary user of BASTA ransomware. Mandiant has responded to over […]
AWS – Meta Llama 3.1 405B now generally available in Amazon Bedrock
The most advanced Meta Llama models to date, Llama 3.1, are available in Amazon Bedrock. Starting today, the Llama 3.1 405B model is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Bedrock offers a turnkey way to build generative AI applications with Llama. Llama 3.1 models are a collection of 8B, 70B, and 405B parameter size […]
AWS – AWS launches a self-guided journey for AWS Partners enrolled on the Services Path
AWS is launching a self-guided experience to help AWS Partners on the Services Path reach the Advanced tier. This experience includes personalized Tasks in Partner Central that offer tips and resources for both new and existing partners to advance in their AWS journey, unlocking access to programs like Specialization and enhancing their discoverability for AWS […]
GCP – Hex-LLM: High-efficiency large language model serving on TPUs in Vertex AI Model Garden
With Vertex AI Model Garden, Google Cloud strives to deliver highly efficient and cost-optimized ML workflow recipes. Currently, it offers a selection of more than 150 first-party, open and third-party foundation models. Last year, we introduced the popular open source LLM serving stack vLLM on GPUs, in Vertex Model Garden. Since then, we have witnessed […]
AWS – AWS IAM Identity Center is now available in the Canada West (Calgary) AWS Region
You can now deploy AWS IAM Identity Center in the Canada West (Calgary) AWS Region. With the addition of this AWS Region, IAM Identity Center is now available in 33 AWS Regions globally. IAM Identity Center is the recommended service for managing workforce access to AWS applications and multiple AWS accounts. Use IAM Identity Center […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker launches faster auto-scaling for Generative AI models
We are excited to announce a new capability in Amazon SageMaker Inference that helps customers reduce the time it takes for their Generative AI models to scale automatically. They can now use sub-minute metrics and significantly reduce overall scaling latency for AI models. Using this enhancement customers can improve the responsiveness of their Generative AI […]
AWS – Amazon GameLift now supports AWS Nigeria Local Zone
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of an update to Amazon GameLift that expands support to the AWS Nigeria region Local Zone, which increases coverage for game developers, while providing seamless, low-latency gameplay experiences for players. With this update, game developers can tap into the Nigeria Local Zone to reach players […]
AWS – AWS HealthImaging announces enhanced copy and update capabilities
AWS HealthImaging adds new copy and update capabilities, making it easier than ever to manage your medical imaging data. With this launch, you can more efficiently organize, combine, and update your medical imaging data to support common clinical and research workflows. This launch offers enhanced capabilities for modifying DICOM data, and simplifies resolving metadata inconsistencies. […]
AWS – AWS Step Functions now supports Customer Managed Keys
AWS Step Functions now supports the use of Customer Managed Keys with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to encrypt Step Functions State Machine and Activity resources. This new capability enables you to encrypt your workflow definitions and execution data using your own encryption keys. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of […]