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GCP – Day 2 at Next ’24 recap: building AI agents
Hello from Las Vegas, where day two of Google Cloud Next ‘24 just wrapped up. What happened in Vegas today? We got hands-on with Gemini and AI agents. At the annual developer keynote, Google Cloud Chief Evangelist Richard Seroter told the audience how Gemini in Google Cloud can not only meet you where you are […]
AWS – AWS Clean Rooms Differential Privacy is now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Clean Rooms Differential Privacy, a new capability that helps you protect the privacy of your users with mathematically-backed and intuitive controls in just a few steps. As a fully managed capability, no prior differential privacy experience is needed to help you protect the privacy of your users. […]
GCP – Investing $1 billion in digital connectivity to Japan
Today, we’re announcing a $1 billion investment in digital connectivity to Japan, which includes the expansion of the Pacific Connect initiative and delivers two new subsea cables, Proa and Taihei. In collaboration with several partners — including KDDI, ARTERIA, Citadel Pacific, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) — these cables will create […]
AWS – AWS Neuron introduces speculative decoding
Today, AWS announces the release of Neuron 2.18, introducing stable support (out of beta) for PyTorch 2.1 and adding support for speculative decoding with Llama-2-70B sample in Transformers NeuronX library. Read More for the details.
Azure – New RBAC roles for Azure savings plan for compute now available
Today, we are please to announce the availability of 3 new role-based access control (RBAC) roles for Azure savings plan. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Red Hat OpenShift April 2024 updates
New features include support for ARO in Azure Terraform provider, ability to bring your own NSG, new GPU instance types for Day 2 operations, and more! Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Verified Permissions is available in four additional regions
Amazon Verified Permissions is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West) Regions, AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) and Canada West (Calgary). The service provides fine-grained authorization for the applications that you build, allowing you to implement permissions as policies rather than application code. Your application calls Verified Permissions to authorize access to APIs and […]
Azure – Public Preview: Mirroring Azure Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric
Get near-real time analytics on your Azure Cosmos DB data in Microsoft Fabric with zero-ETL. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Defender for Cloud supports Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server
You can now protect Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server with Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public Preview: Long-term retention for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server
The feature will allow you to retain/manage backups for up to 10 years in the standard tier according to your compliance and auditing needs. Read More for the details.