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AWS – Amazon Q Developer is now available in Amazon SageMaker Code Editor IDE
Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed machine learning service, announces the general availability of Amazon Q Developer in SageMaker Studio Code Editor. SageMaker Studio customers now get generative AI assistance powered by Q Developer right within their Code Editor (Visual Studio Code – Open Source) IDE. With Q Developer, data scientists and ML engineers can access […]
AWS – AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location and expansion in Bangkok, Thailand
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Telehouse Bangkok, Thailand data center. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Bangkok location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This site is the […]
AWS – Amazon MSK Connect APIs now support AWS PrivateLink
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka Connect (Amazon MSK Connect) APIs now come with AWS PrivateLink support, allowing you to invoke Amazon MSK Connect APIs from within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without traversing the public internet. By default, all communication between your MSK Clusters and your Amazon MSK Connect connectors is private, and […]
GCP – Supporting women founders innovating with AI
Despite the growing global investment in AI, women-founded startups remain underrepresented in the venture capital landscape. Just last year, female-founded companies in Europe received just 1.8% of total VC funding. To help close this gender gap, we are opening up applications for the Google for Startups Accelerator: Women Founders program for Europe & Israel. This […]
GCP – Distributed data preprocessing with GKE and Ray: Scaling for the enterprise
The exponential growth of machine learning models brings with it ever-increasing datasets. This data deluge creates a significant bottleneck in the Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) lifecycle, as traditional data preprocessing methods struggle to scale. The preprocessing phase, which is critical for transforming raw data into a format suitable for model training, can become a major […]
GCP – Ivanti Connect Secure VPN Targeted in New Zero-Day Exploitation
Written by: John Wolfram, Josh Murchie, Matt Lin, Daniel Ainsworth, Robert Wallace, Dimiter Andonov, Dhanesh Kizhakkinan, Jacob Thompson Note: This is a developing campaign under active analysis by Mandiant and Ivanti. We will continue to add more indicators, detections, and information to this blog post as needed. On Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, Ivanti disclosed two […]
AWS – Announcing 20 additional AWS Systems Manager Automation runbook recommendations in AWS Chatbot
AWS announces general availability of 20 additional AWS Systems Manager Automation runbook recommendations as contextual action buttons on event notifications in AWS Chatbot. This launch enables customers to run AWS Systems Manager automations from Microsoft Teams and Slack channels to address AWS Security Hub and Amazon ECS-related events. With this launch, customers can run AWS […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB now supports configurable point-in-time-recovery periods
Amazon DynamoDB now supports a configurable period for point-in-time-recovery (PITR). You can specify the duration for data recoverability using PITR on a per-table basis, ranging from 1 to 35 days. Point-in-time recovery (PITR) protects your DynamoDB data from accidental writes and deletes, allowing you to restore your data to any second within your recovery period. […]
GCP – Google Cloud expands its support for founders through partnerships with 300 accelerators worldwide
At Google Cloud, we focus on building the most competitive and powerful network of support for startups. One of the ways we show our support is by partnering with investors, accelerators, and incubators to deliver the resources and benefits that help startups succeed. For example, we are proud to partner with marquee institutions who invest […]
GCP – Supervised Fine Tuning for Gemini: A best practices guide
Foundation models such as Gemini have revolutionized how we work, but sometimes they need guidance to excel at specific business tasks. Perhaps their answers are too long, or their summaries miss the mark. That’s where supervised fine-tuning (SFT) comes in. When done right, it unlocks incredible precision to tailor Gemini for specialized tasks, domains, and […]
