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AWS – Updates and Expansion to the AWS Well-Architected Framework and Lens Catalog
AWS is excited to announce updates to the Well-Architected Framework and Lens Catalog. This latest update brings a comprehensive expansion to customers with expanded guidance on architectural best practices, empowering them to build and maintain optimized, secure, and resilient workloads in the cloud. The Framework updates provide more recommendations for AWS services, observability, generative AI, […]
AWS – Amazon ECR supports Open Container Initiative Image and Distribution specification version 1.1
Today, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) announced that it supports Open Container Initiative (OCI) Image and Distribution specification version 1.1, which includes support for Reference Types, simplifying the storage, discovery, and retrieval of artifacts related to a container image. AWS Container Services customers can now easily store, discover, and retrieve artifacts such as image signatures […]
AWS – PostgreSQL 17 Beta 2 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17 Beta 2 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the pre-release of PostgreSQL 17 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can deploy PostgreSQL 17 Beta 2 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database. PostgreSQL […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployment with two readable standbys now supports snapshot export to S3
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys now supports export of snapshot data to an Amazon S3 bucket. Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys is ideal when your workloads require lower write latency and more read capacity. In addition, this deployment option supports minor version upgrades and system […]
AWS – AWS Blu Insights accelerates migrations with new AI capabilities
We are excited to announce new capabilities for accelerating AWS Mainframe Modernization with machine learning and generative AI assistance. Using the latest generative AI models in Amazon Bedrock and AWS Machine Learning services like Amazon Translate, AWS Blu Insights makes it simple to automatically generate code and file descriptions, transform code from mainframe languages, and […]
AWS – Amazon EKS introduces cluster creation flexibility for networking add-ons
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) provides the flexibility to create Kubernetes clusters without the default networking add-ons, enabling you to easily install open source or third party alternative add-ons or self-manage default networking add-ons using any Kubernetes lifecycle management tool. Every EKS cluster automatically comes with default networking add-ons including Amazon VPC CNI, […]
GCP – Global Revival of Hacktivism Requires Increased Vigilance from Defenders
Written by: Daniel Kapellmann Zafra, Alden Wahlstrom, James Sadowski, Josh Palatucci, Davyn Baumann, Jose Nazario Since early 2022, Mandiant has observed the revival and intensification of threat activity from actors leveraging hacktivist tactics and techniques. This comes decades after hacktivism first emerged as a form of online activism and several years since many defenders […]
GCP – Google Cloud expands grounding capabilities on Vertex AI
Introduced in April, Vertex AI Agent Builder gathers all the surfaces and tools developers need to build enterprise-ready generative AI experiences, apps, and agents. Some of the most powerful tools are the components for retrieval augmented generation (RAG), and the unique ability to ground Gemini outputs with Google Search. Today, I’m pleased to share that […]
GCP – Making Vertex AI the most enterprise-ready generative AI platform
It’s been amazing to see the impressive things customers are doing with generative AI and agents. Less than three months ago, we shared 101 real-world gen AI use cases from the world’s leading organizations. Since then, to enable businesses to roll out compelling AI agents faster, Google DeepMind has continued to pioneer model advances, in […]
GCP – Cloud SQL for MySQL の最新情報: ベクター検索、Gemini サポートなど
※この投稿は米国時間 2024 年 6 月 15 日に、Google Cloud blog に投稿されたものの抄訳です。 Cloud SQL for MySQL は、企業が幅広いアプリケーションに必要とする堅牢なパフォーマンス、スケーラビリティ、信頼性を提供します。複雑なゲームデータの管理からスマートホーム デバイスの運用まで、Chess.com などの企業や Google Nest はすでに Cloud SQL for MySQL を活用してイノベーションを推進し、ユーザー エクスペリエンスを改善して、データドリブン ソリューションの強固な基盤を提供しています。AI 機能の需要が高まるなか、組織は、すでにアプリケーションをサポートしているデータベースを使用しながら、ビジネスのニーズに合わせて AI を活用することを目指しています。 企業のビジネス変革を支援するために、Google は最近、Cloud SQL for MySQL の新機能をいくつか発表し、プレビュー版で利用できるようにしました。これらの新機能は、企業が AI を活用してデータベースとアプリケーションを強化するために役立ちます。Google がこのたび提供を開始したベクター エンベディング検索の統合サポートを活用すれば、革新的な生成 AI アプリケーションとAI 支援ツールを構築し、データベース管理を簡素化して、Gemini でパフォーマンスを次のレベルに引き上げるために役立てることができます。これらの新機能について詳しく見ていきましょう。 1. ベクター検索を使用して生成 AI アプリケーションを構築し、MySQL と統合する Cloud SQL for MySQL ではベクター エンベディングのストレージと類似性検索が提供されるようになり、既存のアプリケーションで生成 […]