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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 […]

AWS – AWS Fault Injection Service is now available in Europe (Spain) Region
Starting today, customers can use AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) in Europe (Spain) Region. FIS is a fully managed service for running fault injection experiments to improve an application’s performance, observability, and resilience. FIS simplifies the process of setting up and running controlled fault injection experiments across a range of AWS services, so teams can […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M6id instances are now available in Europe (London) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6id instances are available in AWS Region Europe (London). These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. M6id instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a combination […]