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AWS – Amazon Q Business launches support for cross-region AWS IAM Identity Center access
Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, generative-AI powered assistant that enhances workforce productivity by answering questions, providing summaries, generating content, and completing tasks based on customer’s enterprise data. AWS IAM Identity Center helps set up and centrally manage workforce user identity and their access to their AWS accounts and applications. Q Business is integrated […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports SRT caller input
You can now use AWS Elemental MediaLive to receive sources using SRT caller. Secure Reliable Transport (SRT), an open source video transport protocol supported by the SRT Alliance, helps deliver video reliably across the internet. SRT has two primary connection modes: caller and listener. With SRT caller input support in MediaLive you can add inputs […]
AWS – Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ version 5.18
Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ minor version 5.18, which introduces several improvements and fixes compared to the previous version of ActiveMQ supported by Amazon MQ. These enhancements include initial support for the JMS 2.0 simplified APIs, such as JMSContext, JMSProducer, and JMSConsumer, as well as the implementation of methods for XA transactions. Starting from ActiveMQ […]
GCP – Announcing IAM group authentication in Cloud SQL
Managing and auditing data access can be very complex at scale, in particular, for a fleet of databases with a myriad of users. Today, we’re launching Identity and Access Management (IAM) group authentication in Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and Cloud SQL for MySQL, simplifying user management and database authentication. Now, developers, database administrators, and security […]
GCP – Maxxton improves app performance up to 60% with Bare Metal for Oracle on Google Cloud
Editor’s Note: Maxxton — a combined central reservation and property management system property management system services provider for the hospitality industry — is in the process of modernizing its legacy software to cope with the massive amount of data it needs to ingest and analyze every day. By migrating to Bare Metal Solution for Oracle […]
GCP – Google Cloud Private Marketplace, now GA, helps control costs and maintain governance
Developers and business users often need to access specialized applications and tools to help them work faster, more productively, and more resourcefully. At the same time, cloud administrators and IT, finance (FinOps), and procurement managers need to maintain governance and control over the software and technologies in use to mitigate “shadow IT”. This includes ensuring […]
GCP – UNC4393 Goes Gently into the SILENTNIGHT
Written by: Josh Murchie, Ashley Pearson, Joseph Pisano, Jake Nicastro, Joshua Shilko, Raymond Leong Overview In mid-2022, Mandiant’s Managed Defense detected multiple intrusions involving QAKBOT, leading to the deployment of BEACON coupled with other pre-ransomware indicators. This marked Mandiant’s initial identification of UNC4393, the primary user of BASTA ransomware. Mandiant has responded to over […]
AWS – Meta Llama 3.1 405B now generally available in Amazon Bedrock
The most advanced Meta Llama models to date, Llama 3.1, are available in Amazon Bedrock. Starting today, the Llama 3.1 405B model is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Bedrock offers a turnkey way to build generative AI applications with Llama. Llama 3.1 models are a collection of 8B, 70B, and 405B parameter size […]
AWS – AWS launches a self-guided journey for AWS Partners enrolled on the Services Path
AWS is launching a self-guided experience to help AWS Partners on the Services Path reach the Advanced tier. This experience includes personalized Tasks in Partner Central that offer tips and resources for both new and existing partners to advance in their AWS journey, unlocking access to programs like Specialization and enhancing their discoverability for AWS […]
GCP – Hex-LLM: High-efficiency large language model serving on TPUs in Vertex AI Model Garden
With Vertex AI Model Garden, Google Cloud strives to deliver highly efficient and cost-optimized ML workflow recipes. Currently, it offers a selection of more than 150 first-party, open and third-party foundation models. Last year, we introduced the popular open source LLM serving stack vLLM on GPUs, in Vertex Model Garden. Since then, we have witnessed […]