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AWS – Enhance accuracy of pre-trained Rekognition moderation model with Custom Moderation
Amazon Rekognition content moderation is a deep learning-based feature that can detect inappropriate, unwanted, or offensive images and videos, making it easier to find and remove such content at scale. Customers across industries, such as social media, gaming, and advertising, use Rekognition’s content moderation capabilities to protect their brand reputation, and enable safe user communities. […]

AWS – Announcing Unified Settings for the AWS Management Console in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
We are excited to launch Unified Settings for the AWS Console in the AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East) Regions. With Unified Settings, settings will persist across devices, browsers, and services. At launch, Unified Settings supports default language, default Region, visual mode, and favorite service display. Default language displays your preferred language across the Management Console, […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 now supports setting AMIs to a disabled state
Starting today, customers can disable their unused or obsolete Amazon Machine Images (AMIs; pronounced ah-mee). Disabling an AMI changes its state to disabled, makes the AMI private if it was previously shared, and prevents any new EC2 instance launches from that disabled AMI. Customers creating, managing, and consuming AMIs at-scale can now simplify and streamline […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd instances now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. Additionally, C7gd instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney). Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing ability to enable AWS Systems Manager by default for all EC2 instances in an organization
AWS customers now have the option to enable Systems Manager, and configure permissions for all EC2 instances in an organization that has been configured to use AWS Organizations, with a single action using Default Host Management Configuration (DHMC). This feature provides a method to help customers ensure core Systems Manager capabilities such as Patch Manager, […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are now available in new regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6in and M6idn instances are available in AWS Regions Europe (Stockholm) and Asia Pacific (Sydney). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, 2x more network bandwidth and up […]

GCP – Get a head start on 2024 with AI and more at Google Cloud Security Talks
October marks the 20th anniversary of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and the perfect time to hold Google Cloud Security Talks, our quarterly digital event on all things security. On October 25, we’ll bring together experts from Google Cloud and the broader Google security community to share insights, best practices, and ways to help increase resilience against […]

GCP – Simplify Dataflow development using Cloud Code plugin for IntelliJ IDE
The ability to execute Data Flow pipelines immediately from within the developer IDE is a powerful attribute that allows Data engineers and scientists to build out complete Data Flow pipelines. It smoothes the Dataflow pipeline development flow for new and existing users by enabling a rich development experience for Cloud Dataflow in the IDE so […]

GCP – How to use PostgreSQL drivers with Cloud Spanner at scale with Cloud Run
Innovators in financial services, gaming, retail, and many other industries rely on Cloud Spanner to power demanding relational database workloads that need to scale without downtime. Built on Google’s distributed infrastructure, Spanner provides a fully managed experience with the highest levels of consistency and availability at any scale. Cloud Spanner’s PostgreSQL interface makes the capabilities […]
GCP – Zero-downtime migrations to Memorystore for Redis Cluster
With the announcement of Memorystore for Redis Cluster at Google Next, we have many Redis administrators and developers asking how they can migrate from their existing Redis cluster environments. We understand that these are business-critical applications and need a zero downtime migration. Adopting Memorystore helps remove repetitive tasks like scaling, patching, backing up and configuring […]