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AWS – MAP enhancements to accelerate AI customer adoption
Starting today, we’re enhancing the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) with two key capabilities to help you accelerate your modernization efforts and drive customers’ adoption of AI: New “Move to AI” Modernization Pathway, featuring Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker. This pathway enables you to help customers transform their existing applications and business processes with proven […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaTailor introduces recurring ad prefetch for live streaming
Today AWS Elemental MediaTailor launched recurring prefetch schedules, enhancing server-side ad prefetch capabilities for live streaming content. This feature helps content providers and broadcasters efficiently manage ad insertion for live events where exact ad break timing is unpredictable, while maintaining high-quality viewer experiences. Content providers can benefit from this during major sporting events, live concerts, […]
AWS – Anonymous user access for Q Business
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of anonymous user access for Amazon Q Business. This feature allows customers to create Q Business applications for anonymous users using publicly accessible content. Q Business applications created in this anonymous mode are billed on a API consumption basis. Customers can now create anonymous Q Business […]
AWS – Amazon VPC Lattice now supports IPv6 for management endpoints
Amazon VPC Lattice introduces dual stack support for management API, enabling you to connect using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), or dual stack clients. Dual stack support is also available when the Amazon VPC Lattice management API endpoint is privately accessed from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using AWS […]
AWS – EC2 Image Builder now integrates with SSM Parameter Store
EC2 Image Builder now integrates with Systems Manager Parameter Store, offering customers a streamlined approach for referencing SSM parameters in their image recipes, components, and distribution configurations. This capability allows customers to dynamically select base images within their image recipes, easily use configuration data and sensitive information for components, and update their SSM parameters with […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports tagging and Attribute-Based Access Control for consumers
Today, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams introduces support for tagging and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for enhanced fan-out consumers. You can register enhanced fan-out consumers to have dedicated low latency read throughput per shard, up to 2MB/s. ABAC is an authorization strategy that defines access permissions based on tags that can be attached to IAM users, […]
GCP – Cloud WAN: Premium Tier & Verified Peering Provider for Reliable Global Connectivity
Recently at Google Cloud Next 25, we announced our latest Cross-Cloud Network innovation: Cloud WAN, a fully managed, reliable, and secure solution to transform enterprise wide area network (WAN) architectures. Today, we continue our series of deep dives into the technologies powering Cloud WAN, namely Premium Tier networking and the Verified Peering Provider program. The […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Data-driven insights into AI and cybersecurity
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for April 2025. Today, Sandra Joyce, vice president, Google Threat Intelligence, will talk about the practical applications of AI in both attack and defense, adapted from her RSA Conference keynote. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. […]
AWS – Announcing Generation 7i instance support for Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) on AWS Outposts now supports generation 7i instances for Amazon RDS for MySQL on Outposts and amazon RDS for PostgreSQL on Outposts. Amazon RDS on Outposts allows you to deploy fully managed database instances in your on-premises environments. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, […]
AWS – Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes now supports Bottlerocket
Today, AWS announced Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes support for Bottlerocket, the Linux-based operating system purpose-built for containers. EKS Hybrid Nodes unifies Kubernetes management across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments by enabling customers to use their on-premises infrastructure as nodes in EKS clusters. Customers can now use Bottlerocket as the node operating system for hybrid nodes […]