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GCP – At UC Berkeley, Filestore supercharges one of largest JupyterHub deployments in U.S. higher ed
Among researchers, students, and developers to work together on complex projects, JupyterHub has become an essential tool for collaborative data science, bringing the power of Jupyter Notebooks to groups of users. Its ability to manage multiple user environments and provide access to shared resources has revolutionized the way that data science instruction is done at […]
GCP – Meta’s Llama 3.1 is now available on Google Cloud
Today, we’re excited to announce the addition of the Llama 3.1 family of models, including a new 405B model – Meta’s most powerful and versatile model to date — to Vertex AI Model Garden. These additions continue Google Cloud’s commitment to open and flexible AI ecosystems that help you build solutions best-suited to your needs. […]
GCP – Whose Voice Is It Anyway? AI-Powered Voice Spoofing for Next-Gen Vishing Attacks
Written by: Emily Astranova, Pascal Issa Executive Summary AI-powered voice cloning can now mimic human speech with uncanny precision, creating for more realistic phishing schemes. According to news reports, scammers have leveraged voice cloning and deepfakes to steal over HK$200 million from an organization. Attackers can use AI-powered voice cloning in various phases of […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens launches a new dashboard for outbound campaign analytics
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now offers a new dashboard for outbound campaign analytics. You can now easily visualize and monitor campaign performance, track efficiency, measure compliance, and understand campaign outcomes for your voice workloads. You can view real-time and historical reports using custom time periods and benchmarks, track campaign progress and delivery status, and drill […]
AWS – Amazon MQ now supports quorum queues for RabbitMQ 3.13
Amazon MQ now provides support for quorum queues, a replicated FIFO queue type offered by open-source RabbitMQ that uses the Raft consensus algorithm to maintain data consistency. Quorum queues are the replicated queue type recommended by open-source RabbitMQ maintainers. With quorum queues, developers can design highly available messaging systems with higher data consistency and fault […]
AWS – Amazon VPC IPAM now supports BYOIP for IPs registered with any Internet Registry
Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) IP Address Manager (IPAM) supports Bring-Your-Own-IP (BYOIP) for IP addresses registered with any Internet Registry. Internet registries manage the allocation and registration of IP addresses within specific geographical regions. BYOIP allows you to bring IP addresses allocated to you by these registries, to AWS, and use them for […]
AWS – Amazon DocumentDB now supports change streams on reader instances
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports change streams on reader instances. With change stream on reader instances, customers can now isolate change stream workloads to specific reader instances, which reduces the load on cluster’s writer instance. Change stream tokens can be shared across writer and reader instances, enabling customers to resume change streams from […]
AWS – AWS KMS increases default service quotas for cryptographic operations
AWS KMS has doubled default service quotas for cryptographic operations in all AWS Regions, including raising the symmetric cryptographic operation request rate from 50,000 to 100,000 in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland). The request rate for cryptographic operations involving RSA and ECC KMS keys has also been increased from 500 […]
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports M6i, R6i, M6g, R6g, and T4g database instances in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M6i, R6i, M6g, R6g, and T4g database instances in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. With this expansion, customers of RDS for open source engines in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region have more than double the number of available instance types to choose from. M6i […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides generative AI-powered summaries within seconds after a contact ends
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides generative AI-powered post-contact summaries within seconds after a contact ends, versus minutes previously, helping you get faster insights when reviewing contacts, save time on after-contact work, and more quickly identifying opportunities to improve contact quality and agent performance. These faster summaries are available via API and Kinesis data streams, […]