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AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports minors 10.11.8, 10.6.18, 10.5.25, 10.4.34
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.11.8, 10.6.18, 10.5.25, and 10.4.34. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community. […]
GCP – How Confidential Accelerators can boost AI workload security
As artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads become more popular, it’s important to secure them with specialized data security measures. Confidential Computing can help protect sensitive data used in ML training to maintain the privacy of user prompts and AI/ML models during inference and enable secure collaboration during model creation. At Google Cloud Next, we […]
GCP – Exploring Google Cloud networking enhancements for generative AI applications
Many enterprises are exploring ways to incorporate the benefits of generative AI (gen AI) into their business. The 2023 Gartner® report We Shape AI, AI Shapes Us: 2023 IT Symposium/Xpo Keynote Insights, 16 October 2023 states that “most organizations are using, or plan to use, everyday AI to boost productivity. In the 2024 Gartner CIO […]
GCP – Connecting your on-premises IPv6 workloads to IPv6 workloads in Google Cloud
Whether it’s due to IPv4 address exhaustion, compliance mandates or the need to connect to IPv6-only clients on the internet, IPv6 adoption in the public cloud is growing rapidly. Meanwhile, enterprises also want to connect cloud-based applications back to applications running on-premises over IPv6. Today, we are announcing a significant expansion to our IPv6 Hybrid […]
GCP – 6 deployment archetypes for your reliability, cost, operational, and latency needs
As a cloud architect or IT decision maker planning to deploy an application in Google Cloud, your first step is to choose a deployment archetype that helps you meet your availability, latency, performance, and cost requirements. So, what’s a deployment archetype? It’s an architectural model that you use as the foundation on which to build […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports memory optimized R6i instance types
Starting today, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle now supports memory optimized R6i instance types featuring up to 8x the RAM per vCPU of the existing R6i instance types to better fit your workloads. Many Oracle database workloads require high memory, storage, and I/O bandwidth but can safely reduce the number of vCPUs without […]
AWS – Amazon DataZone introduces advanced search filtering capabilities
Amazon DataZone is a fully managed data management service to catalog, discover, analyze, share, and govern data between data producers and consumers in a customer’s organization. Amazon DataZone introduces advanced search filtering capabilities in its business data catalog. This include improved rendering of glossary term facets, the ability to switch between ‘AND’ and ‘OR’ logic […]
AWS – Amazon SES now publishes email sending events to EventBridge
Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) released a new way to track email sending activity by delivering sending events to Amazon EventBridge. Customers can now select EventBridge as a delivery destination for configuration sets, making it easier to route event notifications such as bounces and complaints to any service supported by EventBridge. Customers can use […]
GCP – BigQuery community UDFs go global to simplify data transformations for everyone
BigQuery users, rejoice! We’re excited to announce that community-contributed BigQuery User Defined Functions (UDFs) from the popular bigquery-utils repo are now available in all BigQuery regions. This expansion means that no matter where you’re running your data warehouse workloads, you can leverage these powerful tools to streamline your data transformations. What are UDFs and why […]
GCP – Supercharging Anti-Money Laundering (AML) with Generative AI at Strise
Who are we? For financial institutions, maintaining compliance with national and international laws is a costly burden, with the banking industry spending over $200 billion to meet the strict scrutiny of regulators. To make this process easier, and less burdensome, Strise has built an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Intelligence System trusted by some of the largest […]