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AWS – Amazon DataZone announces integration with AWS Lake Formation hybrid mode
Amazon DataZone is used by customers to catalog, discover, analyze, share, and govern data at scale across organizational boundaries with governance and access controls. Today, Amazon DataZone has introduced an integration with AWS Lake Formation hybrid mode. This integration enables customers to easily publish and share their AWS Glue tables through Amazon DataZone, without the […]

AWS – AWS Clean Rooms ML is now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Clean Rooms ML, which helps companies apply machine learning (ML) to generate predictive insights in a data collaboration without sharing their raw data with their partners. This capability launches with an ML model that helps companies create lookalike segments. With AWS Clean Rooms ML lookalike modeling, you […]

AWS – Mistral Large foundation model now available on Amazon Bedrock
Mistral Large, Mistral AI’s flagship cutting-edge text generation model is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. Mistral Large is widely known for its top-tier reasoning capabilities, specific instruction following, and multilingual translation abilities. It excels in coding and mathematical tasks and is natively fluent in English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian, with a nuanced understanding […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch now supports cross-account anomaly detection
Amazon CloudWatch now supports Anomaly Detection on metrics shared across your accounts. CloudWatch Anomaly Detection now lets you track unexpected changes in metric behavior across multiple accounts from a single monitoring account through CloudWatch cross-account observability. Read More for the details.

GCP – Your Public Sector Guide to Next ’24: Sessions, Demos, Lightning Talks
The Public Sector track at Google Cloud Next ’24 is our chance to learn, collaborate, and pave the way for the next generation of public service. To support this shared mission, we’ve designed a program of insightful sessions, lightning talks, and interactive demos. Here’s how to make this collaborative experience work for you: Focus on […]

GCP – GKE Autopilot mode gets burstable workloads and smaller Pod sizes
Autopilot mode for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is our take on a fully managed, Pod-based Kubernetes platform. It provides category-defining features with a fully functional Kubernetes API with support for StatefulSet with block storage, GPU and other critical functionality that you don’t often found in nodeless/serverless-style Kubernetes offerings, while still offering a Pod-level SLA and […]

GCP – DNS providers for Google Kubernetes Engine explained
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) offers two different ways to perform service discovery and DNS resolution: the in-cluster kube-dns functionality, and GCP managed Cloud DNS. Either approach can be combined with the performance-enhancing NodeLocal DNSCache add-on. New GKE Autopilot clusters use Cloud DNS as a fully managed DNS solution for your GKE Autopilot clusters without any […]

GCP – Get inspired: Database success stories at Google Cloud Next
Inspiration awaits! Google Cloud Next takes over Las Vegas on April 9-11, bringing together a powerhouse collection of innovative customers who are pushing the boundaries with Google Cloud. In this blog, we’ll shine a spotlight on customers leveraging Google Cloud databases to transform their businesses. And don’t forget to add these sessions to your event […]

AWS – Amazon Bedrock is now available in the AWS Europe (Paris) Region
Starting today, customers can use Amazon Bedrock in the AWS Europe (Paris) Region to easily build and scale AI applications using a variety of foundation models and generative AI tools. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics achieves FedRAMP High Authorization in AWS GovCloud West Region
Starting today, you can now use Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics with workloads that require the FedRAMP High categorization level in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Read More for the details.