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GCP – Protecting Multi-Cloud Resources in the Era of Modern Cloud-Based Cyberattacks
Written by: Rupa Mukherjee, Jon Sabberton In the era of multi-cloud adoption, where organizations leverage diverse cloud platforms to optimize their operations, a new wave of security challenges have emerged. The expansion of attack surfaces beyond traditional on-premises environments, coupled with complex permission structures and the prevalence of overly permissive accounts, has created fertile ground […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge Pipes now supports customer managed KMS keys
Amazon EventBridge Pipes now supports AWS Key Management Service (KMS) customer managed keys, allowing you to encrypt Pipes filter patterns, enrichment parameters, and target parameters with your own keys instead of default AWS owned keys. Using keys that you create, own, and manage can satisfy your organization’s security and governance requirements. Amazon EventBridge lets you […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift now supports altering sort keys on tables in zero-ETL integration
Amazon Redshift now lets you alter sort keys of tables replicated through zero-ETL integration. Sort keys play a crucial role in determining the physical sorting order of rows within a table, and optimizing them can significantly enhance query performance, especially for queries using range-bound filters on sort key columns. Amazon Redshift’s zero-ETL integration helps you […]
AWS – AWS IAM Identity Center now supports language and visual mode preferences in the AWS access portal
The AWS access portal provides AWS IAM Identity Center users with single sign-on access to all their assigned AWS applications and AWS accounts. Today, AWS IAM Identity Center added support for user preferences on language and visual mode in the AWS access portal. When customers need to access AWS applications and resources through the AWS […]
AWS – Amazon EKS support in Amazon SageMaker HyperPod to scale foundation model development
We are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon EKS support in SageMaker HyperPod which enables customers to run and manage their Kubernetes workloads on SageMaker HyperPod, a purpose-built infrastructure for foundation model (FM) development which reduces time to train models by up to 40%. Many customers use Kubernetes to orchestrate their ML workflows […]
AWS – Amazon EMR on EC2 improves cluster launch experience with intelligent subnet selection
Starting today, Amazon EMR on EC2 offers improved reliability and cluster launch experience for instance fleet clusters through enhanced subnet selection. With this feature, EMR on EC2 reduces cluster launch failures caused due to IP address shortages. Amazon EMR is a cloud big data platform for data processing, interactive analysis, and machine learning using open-source […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 2.15
You can now run OpenSearch version 2.15 in Amazon OpenSearch Service. With OpenSearch 2.15, we have made several improvements in the areas of search performance, query optimization, and added capabilities to help you to build AI-powered applications with greater flexibility and ease. This launch includes radial search that allows you to search points in a […]
AWS – Amazon MSK enhances cross-cluster replication with support for identical topic names
Amazon MSK Replicator now supports a new configuration that enables you to preserve original Kafka topic names while replicating streaming data across Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) clusters. Amazon MSK Replicator is a feature of Amazon MSK that lets you reliably replicate data across MSK clusters in the same or different AWS […]
AWS – Container Insights now announces SageMaker HyperPod node health observability on EKS
Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights now auto-discovers the health status of your SageMaker HyperPod nodes running on EKS and visualizes them in curated dashboards to help you monitor your node availability for operational excellence. Using out-of-the-box dashboards, you can identify unhealthy nodes easily and mitigate quickly to achieve efficient training durations. Container Insights works with SageMaker […]
GCP – Regnology Automates Ticket-to-Code with agentic GenAI on Vertex AI
A significant challenge in software development faced by many tech driven companies with internal software development teams, is the “Ticket-to-Code Problem”.This issue arises when-reported bugs or requirements are logged as tickets, which then need to be transformed into actionable code changes. Regnology, a global technology pioneer in regulatory reporting solutions, is no exception. The process […]