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GCP – Accelerating cloud transformation with Google Cloud and Oracle
Google Cloud and Oracle announced an exciting new strategic cloud partnership today that enables customers to migrate and run mission-critical enterprise workloads seamlessly across Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). It provides a rich set of interoperable solutions that make it easy for our joint customers to migrate, modernize, and manage their Oracle-based applications […]
AWS – Amazon SES now provides custom values in the Feedback-ID header
Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) released a new feature to give customers control over parts of the auto-generated Feedback-ID header in messages sent through SES. This feature provides additional details to help customers identify deliverability trends. Customers can use products like PostMaster Tools by Gmail to see complaint rates by identifiers of their choice, such […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now provides color coding for shift activities in agent scheduling
Amazon Connect now provides color coding for shift activities in agent scheduling, enabling a simplified experience for contact center managers and agents. With this launch, you can now configure colors for agent shift activities, such as red for breaks and lunches, green for team meetings, and purple for trainings. With customizable colors, managers can quickly […]
AWS – AWS CloudTrail Lake announces AI-powered natural language query generation (preview)
AWS announces generative AI-powered natural language query generation in AWS CloudTrail Lake (preview), enabling you to simply analyze your AWS activity events without having to write complex SQL queries. Now you can ask questions in plain English about your AWS API and user activity, such as “How many errors were logged during the past week […]
GCP – Google named a Leader in the Cybersecurity Incident Response Services Forrester Wave, Q2 2024
Today, we’re pleased to share that Google was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Cybersecurity Incident Response Services Report, Q2 2024. Forrester identified 14 top vendors in the cybersecurity incident response services space, assessing them on their current offerings, strategy, and market presence. Mandiant, part of Google Cloud, received the highest possible score in […]
GCP – Pedal to the metal: How Veo powers actionable insights with Google Cloud
Veo is a micromobility company on a mission to end car dependency by making clean transportation more accessible to all. We provide millions of shared bike and scooter rides to more than 50 cities across North America, and we’re just getting started. Accessibility drives everything we do, from the types of electric vehicles in our […]
GCP – Exploring synthetic data generation with BigQuery DataFrames and LLMs
In the realm of big data analytics, a common challenge has been the separation between data processing and machine learning workflows. Traditionally, data engineers would use tools like Apache Spark for large-scale data processing in data warehouses like BigQuery, while data scientists would leverage libraries like pandas and scikit-learn for machine learning tasks. This disjointed […]
AWS – AWS Audit Manager generative AI best practices framework now includes Amazon SageMaker
Available today, the AWS Audit Manager generative AI best practices framework now includes Amazon SageMaker in addition to Amazon Bedrock. Customers can use this prebuilt standard framework to gain visibility into how their generative AI implementation on SageMaker or Amazon Bedrock follows AWS recommended best practices and start auditing their generative AI usage and automating […]
AWS – AWS Cloud WAN introduces Service Insertion to simplify security inspection at global scale
Today AWS announces Service Insertion, a new feature of AWS Cloud WAN that simplifies the integration of security and inspection services into the Cloud WAN based global networks. Using this feature, you can easily steer your global network traffic between Amazon VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud), AWS Regions, on-premises locations, and Internet via security appliances or […]
AWS – Detect malware in new object uploads to Amazon S3 with Amazon GuardDuty
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for Amazon S3. This expansion of GuardDuty Malware Protection allows you to scan newly uploaded objects to Amazon S3 buckets for potential malware, viruses, and other suspicious uploads and take action to isolate them before they are ingested into downstream processes. […]