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AWS – Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks now support G6e instance types
We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 G6e instances on SageMaker Studio notebooks. Amazon EC2 G6e instances are powered by up to 8 NVIDIA L40s Tensor Core GPUs with 48 GB of memory per GPU and third generation AMD EPYC processors. G6e instances deliver up to 2.5x better performance compared to EC2 […]
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports M7g and R7g database instances in additional AWS Regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now support AWS Graviton3-based M7g database instances in Europe (Paris), and R7g database instances in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Europe (Milan). With this regional expansion, Graviton3 database instances are now available for Amazon RDS in 21 regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US […]
GCP – Founders share five takeaways from the Google Cloud Startup Summit
We recently hosted our annual Google Cloud Startup Summit, and we were thrilled to showcase a wide range of AI startups leveraging Google Cloud, including Higgsfield AI, Click Therapeutics, Baseten, LiveX AI, Reve AI, and Vellum. As a former co-founder and venture capitalist, I was inspired by the remarkable solutions these startups are developing and […]
GCP – Reltio’s Data Plane Transformation with Spanner on Google Cloud
In today’s data-driven landscape, data unification plays a pivotal role in ensuring data consistency and accuracy across an organization. Reltio, a leading provider of AI-powered data unification and management solutions, recently undertook a significant step in modernizing its data infrastructure by migrating from self-managed Cassandra to Spanner on Google Cloud. The outcome of this endeavor […]
GCP – How Shopify improved consumer search intent with real-time ML
In the dynamic landscape of commerce, Shopify merchants rely on our platform’s ability to seamlessly and reliably deliver highly relevant products to potential customers. Therefore, a rich and intuitive search experience is an essential part of our offering. Over the past year, Shopify has been integrating AI-powered search capabilities into our merchants’ storefronts. Shopify Storefront […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: AI vendors should share vulnerability research. Here’s why
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2024. Today I’m discussing new AI vulnerabilities that Google’s security teams discovered and helped fix, and why it’s important for AI vendors to share vulnerability research impacting their technology. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud […]
GCP – How Low Can You Go? An Analysis of 2023 Time-to-Exploit Trends
Written by: Casey Charrier, Robert Weiner Mandiant analyzed 138 vulnerabilities that were disclosed in 2023 and that we tracked as exploited in the wild. Consistent with past analyses, the majority (97) of these vulnerabilities were exploited as zero-days (vulnerabilities exploited before patches are made available, excluding end-of-life technologies). Forty-one vulnerabilities were exploited as n-days (vulnerabilities […]
GCP – A new era of partnership: Unveiling Google Public Sector’s enhanced Partner Program
Google Public Sector is excited today to launch its enhanced Partner Program, designed to empower partners to achieve success in the public sector market. Unveiled at Public Sector Partner Connect 2024, this enhanced program – under the Partner Advantage Program umbrella – introduces several new initiatives focused on accelerating growth, fostering deeper collaboration, and maximizing […]
AWS – Assign billing of your shared Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations
Starting today, you can assign the billing of unused Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCR) to any one of your organization accounts with which the reservation is shared. Capacity Reservations help you reserve compute capacity for any duration and share it across multiple accounts, enabling you to centrally pool and manage your reserved capacity. When […]
AWS – Amazon Verified Permissions is now HIPAA eligible
Amazon Verified Permissions is now a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) eligible service, enabling healthcare and life sciences organizations subject to HIPAA to use the service for permissions management. Amazon Verified Permissions is a permissions management and fine-grained authorization service for the applications that you build. Amazon Verified Permissions uses the Cedar policy language […]