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GCP – A Measure of Motive: How Attackers Weaponize Digital Analytics Tools
Adrian McCabe, Ryan Tomcik, Stephen Clement Introduction Digital analytics tools are vital components of the vast domain that is modern cyberspace. From system administrators managing traffic load balancers to marketers and advertisers working to deliver relevant content to their brand’s biggest fan base, tools like link shorteners, location trackers, CAPTCHAs, and digital advertising platforms each […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall introduces GeoIP Filtering to inspect traffic based on geographic location
AWS Network Firewall now supports GeoIP Filtering on ingress and egress Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) traffic. This new feature makes it easy for customers to block traffic coming from or going to specific countries and meet compliance requirements. Previously, maintaining compliance with regulations was time-consuming because you have to maintain a list of IP […]
AWS – Announcing AWS Parallel Computing Service
Today, AWS announces AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS), a new managed service that lets you run and scale high performance computing (HPC) workloads on AWS. The service enables you to build scientific and engineering models, and run simulations using your preferred HPC job scheduler (starting with Slurm). AWS PCS allows you to build complete […]
GCP – Get started with the new generally available features of Gemini in BigQuery
According to Google’s Data and AI Trends Report 2024, 84% of organizations believe that generative AI will expedite their access to insights, and notably 52% of non-technical users are already leveraging generative AI to extract valuable insights. With Google’s Data Cloud, we’re on a mission to bring our decades of research and investments in AI to […]
AWS – AWS announces Amazon-provided contiguous IPv4 blocks
Starting today, customers can provision Amazon-provided contiguous IPv4 blocks using Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM), to simplify network management and security. Customers want to use Amazon-provided contiguous IPv4 blocks in their networking and security constructs like access control lists, route tables, security groups, and firewalls as opposed to using many individual discontiguous public IPv4 […]
AWS – Amazon Location Service announces Migration SDK
Amazon Location Service has launched a Migration SDK that enables users to easily and quickly migrate their existing application from Google Maps Platform to Amazon Location Service. The Migration SDK provides an option for your application built using the Google Maps SDK for JavaScript to use Amazon Location Service without needing to rewrite any of […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is expanding availability to the Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. OpenSearch Serverless’ compute […]
GCP – Google IT adopting Google Cloud services
Google’s enterprise IT teams build and maintain the infrastructure that powers Google. Our mission is to enable Googlers to do their best work by providing them with the reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure they need. Our vision is to be the world’s leading provider of enterprise technology solutions. In order to best meet the needs […]
GCP – Grounding Analytical AI Agents with Looker’s Trusted Metrics
The growth and adoption of generative AI enables new ways for users to engage with products and services. Your organization has likely spent significant time and resources establishing trusted self-service analytics capabilities – and AI is revolutionizing how users can interact with their business data. For example, instead of building a query, users can use […]
GCP – Need a higher cache hit rate? Media CDN origin offload does the trick for Warner Brothers Discovery
In today’s video-hungry world, content providers face relentless demand from viewers for high-quality, seamless streaming experiences. Every buffering wheel or playback failure risks losing viewers and revenue. One of the most critical tools in a provider’s toolbox is efficient origin offload strategy – the process of storing and delivering content from cache servers closer to […]