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AWS – AWS DataSync expands support for agentless cross-region data transfers to include opt-in regions
AWS DataSync now supports agentless cross-region data transfers between all regions in the commercial AWS partition, including opt-in regions. With this update, you can now transfer millions of files or objects between AWS Storage services such as Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, and Amazon FSx in different regions without deploying or managing a DataSync agent. AWS […]
AWS – Mistral Large 2 foundation model now available in Amazon Bedrock
Mistral AI’s Mistral Large 2 (24.07) foundation model is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock. This model is the latest version of Mistral AI’s flagship large language model, Mistral Large (24.02), with significant improvements on multilingual accuracy, conversational behavior, coding capabilities, reasoning and instruction-following behavior. With this new release of Mistral Large, you can leverage […]
AWS – AWS Signer open sources Notation plugin for container image signing
Today, AWS open-sourced the AWS Signer plugin for Notation, giving customers flexibility and transparency in how they sign and verify container images with AWS Signer, a managed signing service. Notation is an open source tool developed by the Notary Project, an industry standard for securing software supply chains by authenticating container images and other OCI […]
GCP – Introducing Partner Companion: An AI-powered advisor for enhanced customer engagement
Following the exciting preview at Google Cloud Next 2024, we’re thrilled to announce the expanded availability of Partner Companion to Google Cloud Services Partners! At Google Cloud, we believe in the power of our partners. Partner Companion leverages generative AI to give them the information they need to thrive. It’s not just a showcase of […]
GCP – Announcing VPC Service Controls with private IPs to extend data exfiltration protection
Google Cloud’s VPC Service Controls can help organizations mitigate the risk of data exfiltration from their Google Cloud managed services. VPC Service Controls (VPC-SC) creates isolation perimeters around cloud resources and networks in Google Cloud, helping you limit access to your sensitive data. Today, we are excited to introduce support for private IP addresses within […]
GCP – Get paid to migrate to a modern data platform with BigQuery and Dataproc incentives
Enterprise data platforms are undergoing a significant evolution to meet the changing needs of companies that are building generative AI applications. While traditional data platforms were designed for specific tasks, like data warehousing or data science, generative AI requires an evolution towards improved data quality, scalability, accessibility, and governance, along with tightly integrated gen AI […]
GCP – Mistral AI’s Codestral launches as a service, first on Vertex AI
Today, we’re announcing that Google Cloud is the first hyperscaler to introduce Codestral – Mistral AI’s first open-weight generative AI model explicitly designed for code generation tasks – as a fully-managed service. Codestral helps developers write and interact with code through a shared instruction and completion API endpoint. You can get started with it today […]
AWS – AWS Cost Categories now supports “Billing Entity” dimension
AWS Cost Categories has added a new dimension “Billing Entity” to its rules. You can now use eight types of dimensions: “Linked Account”, “Charge Type”, “Service”, “Usage Type”, “Cost Allocation Tags”, “Region”, “Billing Entity” and other “Cost Category” while creating cost categories rules. AWS Cost Categories is a feature within the AWS Cost Management product […]
AWS – Meta Llama 3.1 generative AI models now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
The most advanced and capable Meta Llama models to date, Llama 3.1, are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a machine learning (ML) hub that offers pretrained models and built-in algorithms to help you quickly get started with ML. You can deploy and use Llama 3.1 models with a few clicks in SageMaker Studio or […]
AWS – Amazon EKS introduces new controls for Kubernetes version support policy
Today, Amazon EKS announces new controls for Kubernetes version policy, allowing cluster administrators to configure end of standard support behavior for EKS clusters. This behavior can easily be set through the EKS Console and CLI. Kubernetes version policy control is available for Kubernetes versions in standard support. Controls for Kubernetes version policy makes it easier […]