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AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL announces Extended Support minor 11.22-RDS.20240418
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 11.22-RDS.20240418. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of PostgreSQL. Amazon RDS Extended Support provides you more time, up to three years, to upgrade to a new major version to […]
AWS – Amazon EKS announces native support for autoscaling CoreDNS Pods
Today, AWS announces general availability of CoreDNS autoscaling capabilities for Amazon EKS clusters. This feature allows you to scale capacity of DNS server instances to meet the ever-changing capacity needs of your services without the overhead of managing custom solutions. Organizations are standardizing on Kubernetes as their compute infrastructure platform to build scalable, containerized applications. […]
Azure – Public preview: Sensitive data protection for Azure Front Door Web Application Firewall
Protect the sensitive data getting stored in your Web Application Firewall (WAF) using log scrubbing on Azure’s global Web Application Firewall running on Azure Front Door. Read More for the details.
GCP – Announcing Trillium, the sixth generation of Google Cloud TPU
Generative AI is transforming how we interact with technology while simultaneously opening tremendous efficiency opportunities for business impact. But these advances require ever greater compute, memory, and communication to train and fine tune the most capable models and to serve them interactively to a global user population. For more than a decade, we at Google […]
GCP – Vertex AI at I/O: Bringing new Gemini and Gemma models to Google Cloud customers
Vertex AI is Google Cloud’s fully-managed, unified development platform for leveraging models at scale, with a selection of over 150 first-party, open, and third-party foundation models; for customizing models with enterprise-ready tuning, grounding, monitoring, and deployment capabilities; and for building AI agents. Customers such as ADT, IHG Hotels & Resorts, ING Bank, Verizon, and more […]
Azure – Azure Front Door server variable enhancement general available
Azure Front Door supports capturing URL path and URL case transformation in rules set and server variable. Read More for the details.
Azure – Introducing GPT-4o: OpenAI’s new flagship multimodal model now in preview on Azure
Microsoft is thrilled to announce the launch of GPT-4o, OpenAI’s new flagship model, now available on Azure AI in preview. This groundbreaking multimodal model integrates text, vision, and audio capabilities, setting a new standard for generative and conversational AI experiences. GPT-4o is available now in Azure OpenAI Service, in preview, with support for text and image. Azure […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge now supports Customer Managed Keys (CMK) for Event Buses
Amazon EventBridge announces support for Amazon Key Management Service (KMS) Customer Managed Keys (CMK) on Event Buses. This capability allows you to encrypt your events using your own keys instead of an AWS owned key (which is used by default). With support for CMK, you now have more fine grained security control over your events, […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances
AWS announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances that deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances. C7i-flex instances expand the EC2 Flex instances portfolio to provide the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a majority of compute intensive workloads. The new instances are powered by […]
AWS – Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) flow logs extends support for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
You can now turn on Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs for your Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) workloads running on both Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate to export detailed telemetry information for all network flows. Amazon ECS helps you deploy and manage your containerized applications easily and efficiently. VPC Flow Logs enable you […]