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Azure – Azure Firewall: New Regions Availability
Azure Firewall Basic, Standard, Premium and Azure Firewall Manager are now generally available in four new regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.30
Kubernetes version 1.30 introduced several new features and bug fixes, and AWS is excited to announce that you can now use Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro to run Kubernetes version 1.30. Starting today, you can create new EKS clusters using v1.30 and upgrade your existing clusters to v1.30 using the Amazon EKS console, the […]
AWS – PostgreSQL 17 Beta 1 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17 Beta 1 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the pre-release of PostgreSQL 17 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can deploy PostgreSQL 17 Beta 1 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database. PostgreSQL […]
AWS – AWS Launches Console-based Bulk Policy Migration for Billing and Cost Management Console Access
AWS Billing and Cost Management console now supports a console-based simplified migration experience for affected policies containing retired IAM actions (aws-portal). Customers, who are not migrated to using fine-grained IAM actions, can trigger this experience by clicking on Update IAM Policies recommended action available on the Billing and Cost Management home page. The experience identifies […]
AWS – AWS Chatbot now supports tagging of AWS Chatbot resources
AWS Chatbot now enables customers to tag AWS Chatbot resources. Tags are simple key-value pairs that customers can assign to AWS resources such as AWS Chatbot channel configurations to easily organize, search, identify resources, and control access. Prior to today, customers could not tag AWS Chatbot resources. As a result, they could not use tag-based […]
AWS – Connect your Jupyter notebooks to Amazon EMR Serverless using Apache Livy endpoints
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon EMR Serverless now supports endpoints for Apache Livy. Customers can now securely connect their Jupyter notebooks and manage Apache Spark workloads using Livy’s REST interface. Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple and cost effective for data engineers and analysts […]
AWS – Mistral Small foundation model now available in Amazon Bedrock
The Mistral Small foundation model from Mistral AI is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock. You can now access four high-performing models from Mistral AI in Amazon Bedrock including Mistral Small, Mistral Large, Mistral 7B, and Mixtral 8x7B, further expanding model choice. Mistral Small is a highly efficient large language model optimized for high-volume, low-latency […]
GCP – More FedRAMP High authorized services are now available in Assured Workloads
Google Cloud’s commitment to empower federal agencies with advanced technology reached a significant milestone this week with the addition of more than 100 new FedRAMP High authorized cloud services. Customers in the U.S. government and commercial organizations supplying the U.S. government can now use popular Google Cloud products authorized for FedRAMP. These products include several […]
GCP – From data chaos to data clarity: How Tamr’s Data Products leverage Google generative AI
Enterprises of all sizes recognize the value of having accurate, complete, and up-to-date views of their business and as a result have invested heavily in their data strategy and infrastructure. With the recent advances in generative AI, the urgency for high-quality data is only increasing. However, many organizations have found that as their data footprint […]
GCP – Create ecommerce experiences with commercetools and Google Cloud Application Integration
The world of digital commerce is rapidly evolving. To stay competitive, businesses need the ability to integrate their commerce systems with a wide array of applications and services. Furthermore, customers expect targeted and personalized experiences. Google’s AI and data solutions create an opportunity to deliver a personalized experience for customers within your ecommerce solutions. This […]