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AWS – Amazon Corretto July, 2024 Quarterly Updates
On July 16, 2024 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) and Feature (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 22.0.2, 21.0.4, 17.0.12, 11.0.24, 8u422 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Click on the Corretto home page to download Corretto 8, Corretto […]
AWS – Announcing expanded DICOMweb retrievals with AWS HealthImaging
AWS HealthImaging has launched two additional DICOMweb APIs for retrieving medical imaging metadata and image frames. This launch offers customers greater flexibility in how they access data stored on HealthImaging, and expanded interoperability with legacy applications. Customers can now download DICOM instance metadata from HealthImaging with GetDICOMInstanceMetadata. Customers can also retrieve one or more image […]
GCP – Introducing GKE extended support: Stay on a GKE minor version for up to 24 months
At Google Cloud, we strongly recommend regular, automatic updates for your Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters, to keep them secure and up-to-date. But sometimes, businesses have legitimate reasons to delay upgrading their GKE clusters. Whether it’s due to your business being in a critical season, qualification delays, or a complex migration, you might need to […]
GCP – AI-Powered Learning: Your NIST NICE Prompt Library (Built with Google Gemini)
Written by: Jake Liefer In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, staying ahead of threats demands continuous learning and skill development. The NIST NICE framework provides a roadmap, but mastering its extensive tasks, knowledge, and skills (TKSs) can be daunting. That’s where the power of artificial intelligence (AI) comes in. We’ve leveraged Google Gemini AI […]
GCP – Defending sovereign workloads: Google Distributed Cloud’s air-gapped approach to Zero Trust
Public sector and government organizations require cloud solutions that can drive innovation and also adhere to strict sovereignty and security requirements. For years, security experts have warned of the risks of government overreliance on singular security controls. To help address public sector and government requirements, we offer Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), a comprehensive suite of […]
GCP – Bringing cloud and AI capabilities to the tactical edge: Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance is generally available
In harsh, disconnected, or mobile environments like disaster zones, remote research stations, or long-haul trucking operations, organizations face significant challenges in providing computing capabilities. Previously, organizations with mission-critical workloads lacked access to important cloud and AI capabilities when in demanding edge environments, including those that present unique challenges and requirements. Today, we are excited to […]
AWS – AWS Artifact now supports enhanced search capability for reports
We are excited to announce enhanced search capability in the AWS Artifact Reports console that allows you to quickly find the compliance reports you need. You can now perform targeted searches for reports based on individual columns, including report title, category, series, description, and ARN. This empowers you to easily locate specific reports. For example, […]
GCP – How Gramercy Tech used Imagen to deliver an innovative conference experience
Editor’s note: In this guest post, we will hear from Gramercy Tech about their experience working with Google Cloud as both a customer and vendor. Organizing engaging events can be quite challenging, but by utilizing Google’s Imagen throughout the conference, the Gramercy team was able to demonstrate the possibilities of generative AI for creating real-time […]
GCP – New Spanner geo-partitioning improves performance and lowers costs
In today’s interconnected world, your applications and users are geographically dispersed. If your database isn’t designed to handle this geographic distribution, you are sacrificing performance and user experience. But now, with Spanner geo-partitioning, you don’t have to. Spanner is Google’s fully managed, globally distributed database with high throughput and virtually unlimited scale. With features such […]
GCP – Cross-Cloud Network: Design global distributed applications at scale
Interested in learning how to simplify your distributed application architecture with Cross-Cloud Network, for connecting, securing, and delivering applications across on-premises, Google Cloud, and third-party cloud environments? The newly published Cross-Cloud Networking for distributed applications section of the Cloud Architecture Center offers a comprehensive guide to designing and implementing a robust cross-cloud environment. In this […]