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GCP – Announcing expanded Sensitive Data Protection for Cloud Storage
Organizations rely on data-driven insights to power their business, but maximizing the potential of data comes with the responsibility to handle it securely. This can be a challenge when data growth can easily outpace the ability to manually inspect it, and data sprawl can lead to sensitive data appearing in unexpected places. To help, we […]
GCP – Announcing AI First Accelerator for startups in the Middle East and Turkey
From paving the way for economic revival and confronting climate change, and from empowering underrepresented entrepreneurs to rethinking healthcare, startups across the Middle East, North Africa (MENA), and Turkey are unlocking opportunities that could profoundly enhance the lives of billions and fuel economic development. AI has emerged as the sharpest tool for startups spearheading solutions […]
GCP – Migrate specific MySQL databases using Database Migration Service
When you’re looking to migrate to Cloud SQL, our fully managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server, you may want to migrate all data or a subset of data from your source instance. Google Cloud’s Database Migration Service (DMS) provides an easy way to migrate all tables from all databases and schemas. […]
AWS – AWS Direct Connect announces native 400 Gbps Dedicated Connections at select locations
AWS Direct Connect now offers native 400 Gbps Dedicated Connections to support your private connectivity needs to the cloud. AWS Direct Connect provides private, high-bandwidth connectivity between AWS and your data center, office, or colocation facility. Native 400 Gbps connections provide higher bandwidth, without the operational overhead of managing multiple 100 Gbps connections in a […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion adds support for ingesting data from self-managed sources
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now allows you to ingest data from self-managed OpenSearch, Elasticsearch and Apache Kafka clusters, eliminating the need to run and manage 3rd party tools like Logstash to migrate your data from self-managed sources into Amazon OpenSearch Service. Now you can seamlessly migrate or continuously replicate your data from all OpenSearch versions and […]
AWS – Announcing streamlined Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) funding and approval process in AWS Partner Central
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announces a new Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) template in AWS Partner Central with streamlined funding and approval processes to better support partner-led migrations. Eligible AWS Partners can leverage MAP to accelerate more customer migration opportunities, now scaling to support migrations up to $10M in annual recurring revenue, with a […]
GCP – How to evaluate the impact of LLMs on business outcomes
How can you make sure that you are getting the desired results from your large language models (LLMs)? How to pick the model that works best for your use case? Evaluating the output of an LLM is one of the most difficult challenges in working with Generative AI. While these models excel across a wide […]
GCP – How Cross-Cloud Network enables a multicloud Oracle-Google Cloud environment
In June, Google Cloud entered into an exciting new partnership with Oracle to provide private, secure, flexible, reliable, and low-latency connections to joint customers, with no data-transfer charges. With this partnership, Google Cloud and Oracle will build private, scalable, and secure peering capacity in multiple locations, removing port-setup lead times, and simplify the provisioning of […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Access Grants now integrate with Amazon SageMaker Studio
Amazon S3 Access Grants now integrate with Amazon SageMaker Studio for machine learning (ML) model training. S3 Access Grants help you to map identities in Identity Provider (IdPs) such as Active Directory, or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals, to your ML datasets in S3. Using the AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) plugin within Amazon […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Access Grants now integrate with open source Python frameworks
Amazon S3 Access Grants now integrate with open source Python frameworks using the AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) plugin. S3 Access Grants help you to map identities in Identity Providers (IdPs) such as Active Directory, or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals, to your datasets in S3. Importing the Boto3 plugin to your client replaces […]