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AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports account level subscription filter in 4 additional regions
Amazon CloudWatch Logs is excited to announce support for creating account-level subscription filters using the put-account-policy API in 4 additional regions. This new capability enables you to deliver real-time log events that are ingested into Amazon CloudWatch Logs to an Amazon Kinesis Data Stream, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, or AWS Lambda for custom processing, analysis, […]
GCP – New Cloud KMS Autokey can help encrypt your resources quickly and efficiently
Encryption is a fundamental control for data security, sovereignty, and privacy in the cloud. While Google Cloud provides default encryption for customer data at rest, many organizations want greater control over their encryption keys that control access to their data. Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) can help you by providing flexibility in cryptographic key creation, rotation, […]
GCP – Google Cloud Marketplace now lets customers buy ISV solutions from channel partners
At Google Cloud, we built the Google Cloud Marketplace based on the core principles of delivering customer choice, innovation, and trust. Today, we are excited to introduce Marketplace Channel Private Offers, enabling channel partners to maintain their relationships with customers as partner of choice. This comprehensive program allows customers, ISV partners, and channel partners to […]
GCP – The new Tower of Babel? Using multilingual embeddings and vector search in BigQuery
In today’s globalized marketplace, finding and understanding reviews in a customer’s preferred language across multiple languages can be challenging. BigQuery is designed for managing and analyzing large datasets, including reviews. In this blog post, we present a solution that uses BigQuery multilingual embeddings, vector index and vector search, to let customers search for products or […]
GCP – Protecting the Public Sector with Google Cloud’s Secure AI
In this blog series, Google Public Sector leaders share their expertise on how AI is revolutionizing government services. We’ll explore the ways our AI solutions are adaptive, secure, responsible, and intelligent – enabling agencies to serve constituents better than ever before. Explore our thought leadership hub to explore innovative ideas for public service. Security is […]
GCP – Browser management made easier with Chrome Enterprise Core
The browser is now key to enterprise productivity, but with cloud computing, hybrid work, and BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policies, there are security challenges IT and security teams need to keep top of mind. So how can organizations maintain a productive workforce while safeguarding sensitive information? The answer lies in the browser itself, and […]
AWS – AI21 Labs’ Jamba-Instruct model now available in Amazon Bedrock
AI21 Labs’ Jamba-Instruct, a powerful instruction-following large language model, is now available in Amazon Bedrock. Fine-tuned for instruction following and built for reliable commercial use, Jamba-Instruct can engage in open-ended dialogue, understand context and subtext, and complete a wide variety of tasks based on natural language instructions. With its 256K context window, Jamba-Instruct has the […]
AWS – Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports GitLab.com source code repositories
Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports the use of source code repositories hosted in GitLab.com in CodeCatalyst projects. This allows customers to use GitLab.com repositories with CodeCatalyst’s features such as its cloud IDE (Development Environments), Amazon Q feature development, and custom and public blueprints. Customers can also trigger CodeCatalyst workflows based on events in GitLab.com, view the […]
AWS – Amazon MSK supports in-place upgrades from M5, T3 instance types to Graviton3 based M7G
You can now upgrade your Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) provisioned clusters running on X-86 based M5 or T3 instances and replace them with AWS Graviton3-based M7G instances with a single click of a button. In-place upgrades allows you to seamlessly switch over your existing provisioned clusters to M7G instance type for […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20240529
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20240529. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of MySQL. Learn more about the bug fixes and patches in this version in the Amazon RDS User Guide. Amazon RDS Extended […]
