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GCP – Run your AI inference applications on Cloud Run with NVIDIA GPUs
Developers love Cloud Run for its simplicity, fast autoscaling, scale-to-zero capabilities, and pay-per-use pricing. Those same benefits come into play for real-time inference apps serving open gen AI models. That’s why today, we’re adding support for NVIDIA L4 GPUs to Cloud Run, in preview. This opens the door to many new use cases to Cloud […]
GCP – Cloud Functions is now Cloud Run functions — event-driven programming in one unified serverless platform
Cloud Functions and its familiar event-driven programming model is now Cloud Run functions, complete with the fine-grained control and scalability that developers love about the serverless platform. With Cloud Run functions, we’ve created a unified serverless platform for all your workloads, so you don’t have to choose between the two. This goes beyond a simple […]
AWS – AWS CloudHSM launches new hsm2m.medium instance type
AWS CloudHSM launched hsm2m.medium with support for Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 Level 3 and non-FIPS CloudHSM clusters. The new instance type provides customers with new features, increased performance, and flexibility. hsm2m.medium offers increased key capacity and higher elliptic curve performance compared with the existing hsm1.medium instance type. Backups from CloudHSM clusters based on […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports data flows import, and faster data prep for ML
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler in Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports importing data flows from Amazon SageMaker Studio Classic, as well as faster and more flexible data preparation for machine learning (ML). With the latest version of SageMaker Data Wrangler in SageMaker Canvas, you can now import data from S3 more easily with custom delimiters and […]
AWS – Amazon S3 now supports conditional writes
Amazon S3 adds support for conditional writes that can check for the existence of an object before creating it. This capability can help you more easily prevent applications from overwriting any existing objects when uploading data. You can perform conditional writes using PutObject or CompleteMultipartUpload API requests in both general purpose and directory buckets. Using […]
AWS – Amazon Connect in-app, web, and video calling is now available in Africa (Cape Town) region
Amazon Connect now provides in-app and web voice and video calling capabilities in Africa (Cape Town) region, making it easier to deliver more personalized voice and video experiences in your websites and mobile applications. These voice and video capabilities allow customers to contact you without having to leave your website or mobile application. You can […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports function-level configuration for recursive loop detection
AWS Lambda now supports function-level configuration which allows you to disable or enable recursive loop detection. Lambda recursive loop detection, which is enabled by default, is a preventative guardrail that automatically detects and stops recursive invocations between Lambda and other supported services, preventing runaway workloads. Before, customers running intentionally recursive patterns could only turn off […]
GCP – Scalable alerting for Apache Airflow to improve data orchestration reliability and performance
About Apache Airflow is a popular tool for orchestrating data workflows. Google Cloud offers a managed Airflow service called Cloud Composer, a fully managed workflow orchestration service built on Apache Airflow that enables you to author, schedule, and monitor pipelines. And when running Cloud Composer, it’s important to have a robust logging and alerting setup […]
GCP – Reimagining security through the power of convergence at Google Cloud Security Summit 2024
To keep pace with modern threats, organizations large and small need to take a hard look at their security tooling and determine how they can adapt to accelerate step function change. And while this may seem daunting, Google Cloud Security can help you make sure it doesn’t have to be. To truly elevate security, we […]
GCP – Introducing ScaNN in BigQuery vector search for large query batches
We continue to add more capabilities to BigQuery to make it the AI-ready data platform for the Gemini era. Earlier this year, we introduced vector search, which enables vector similarity search on BigQuery data. Since then, we also added several functionalities such as stored columns and pre-filtering. Already, the scale, performance, and ease-of-use offered through […]