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GCP – Bridging the Gap: Elevating Red Team Assessments with Application Security Testing
Written by: Ilyass El Hadi, Louis Dion-Marcil, Charles Prevost Executive Summary Whether through a comprehensive Red Team engagement or a targeted external assessment, incorporating application security (AppSec) expertise enables organizations to better simulate the tactics and techniques of modern adversaries. This includes: Leveraging minimal access for maximum impact: There is no need for high privilege escalation. […]
GCP – ¡Hola Mexico! Google Cloud region in Querétaro now open
Google Cloud is delighted to announce the opening of our 41st cloud region in Querétaro, Mexico. This marks our third cloud region in Latin America, joining Santiago, Chile, and São Paulo, Brazil. From Querétaro, we’ll provide fast, reliable cloud services to businesses and public sector organizations throughout Mexico and beyond. This new region offers low […]
AWS – Announcing new AWS AI Service Cards to advance responsible generative AI
Today, AWS announces the availability of new AWS AI Service Cards for Amazon Nova Reel; Amazon Canvas; Amazon Nova Micro, Lite, and Pro; Amazon Titan Image Generator; and Amazon Titan Text Embeddings. AI Service Cards are a resource designed to enhance transparency by providing customers with a single place to find information on the intended […]
AWS – AWS Education Equity Initiative to boost education for underserved learners
Amazon announces a five-year commitment of cloud technology and technical support for organizations creating digital learning solutions that expand access for underserved learners worldwide through the AWS Education Equity Initiative. While the use of educational technologies continues to rise, many organizations lack access to cloud computing and AI resources needed to accelerate and scale their […]
AWS – Amazon Q Developer can now guide SageMaker Canvas users through ML development
Starting today, you can build ML models using natural language with Amazon Q Developer, now available in Amazon SageMaker Canvas in preview. You can now get generative AI-powered assistance through the ML lifecycle, from data preparation to model deployment. With Amazon Q Developer, users of all skill levels can use natural language to access expert […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Guardrails supports multimodal toxicity detection for image content (Preview)
Organizations are increasingly using applications with multimodal data to drive business value, improve decision-making, and enhance customer experiences. Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now supports multimodal toxicity detection for image content, enabling organizations to apply content filters to images. This new capability with Guardrails, now in public preview, removes the heavy lifting required by customers to build […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Data Automation now available in preview
Today, we are announcing the preview launch of Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA), a new feature of Amazon Bedrock that enables developers to automate the generation of valuable insights from unstructured multimodal content such as documents, images, video, and audio to build GenAI-based applications. These insights include video summaries of key moments, detection of inappropriate […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock announces preview of prompt caching
Today, AWS announces that Amazon Bedrock now supports prompt caching. Prompt caching is a new capability that can reduce costs by up to 90% and latency by up to 85% for supported models by caching frequently used prompts across multiple API calls. It allows you to cache repetitive inputs and avoid reprocessing context, such as […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Marketplace brings over 100 models to Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock Marketplace provides generative AI developers access to over 100 publicly available and proprietary foundation models (FMs), in addition to Amazon Bedrock’s industry-leading, serverless models. Customers deploy these models onto SageMaker endpoints where they can select their desired number of instances and instance types. Amazon Bedrock Marketplace models can be accessed through Bedrock’s unified […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports structured data retrieval
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports natural language querying to retrieve structured data from your data sources. With this launch, Bedrock Knowledge Bases offers an end-to-end managed workflow for customers to build custom generative AI applications that can access and incorporate contextual information from a variety of structured and unstructured data sources. Using advanced natural […]