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GCP – Keys to the Kingdom: A Defender’s Guide to Privileged Account Monitoring
Written by: Bhavesh Dhake, Will Silverstone, Matthew Hitchcock, Aaron Fletcher The Criticality of Privileged Access in Today’s Threat Landscape Privileged access stands as the most critical pathway for adversaries seeking to compromise sensitive systems and data. Its protection is not only a best practice, it is a fundamental imperative for organizational resilience. The increasing complexity […]
GCP – Expanding investment in our Google Public Sector partner ecosystem
As AI technology advances at a rapid pace, I am pleased to announce a new set of investments in our partner ecosystem at today’s Partner Connect at the Google Public Sector Summit. Our new initiatives will deepen our collaboration and empower our partners to capitalize on the incredible momentum in AI. We are focused on […]
AWS – AWS Resource Explorer supports 47 additional resource types
AWS Resource Explorer now supports 47 more resource types services including Amazon Bedrock, AWS Shield, and AWS Glue. With this release, customers can now search for the following resource types in AWS Resource Explorer: 1. amplify:apps 26. profile:domains/object-types 2. aoss:collection 27. resiliencehub:app 3. app-integrations:application 28. route53-recovery-control:controlpanel/routingcontrol 4. appconfig:application/environment 29. route53-recovery-readiness:cell 5. appconfig:extensionassociation 30. s3:storage-lens-group 6. […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in Europe (London)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-flex instances are available in the Europe (London) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The R8i and R8i-flex instances offer up […]
AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) announces upgraded query planner that can run queries up to 10x faster
Today, Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) announces a new query planner, featuring advanced query optimization capabilities and improved performance. PlannerVersion 2.0 for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) 5.0 delivers up to 10x performance improvement over the prior version when using find and update operators with indexes. Performance improvements primarily come from using more optimal index […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 I7ie instances now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Region
AWS is announcing starting today, Amazon EC2 I7ie instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) region. Designed for large storage I/O intensive workloads, I7ie instances are powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, offering up to 40% better compute performance and 20% better price performance over […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings
We are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings, a state-of-the-art embedding model for agentic RAG and semantic search. It is the first unified embedding model that supports text, documents, images, video, and audio through a single model, to enable cross-modal retrieval with leading accuracy. Managing and searching across different content […]
AWS – AWS Payment Cryptography is now available in Canada(Montreal), Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (London)
AWS Payment Cryptography has expanded its global presence with availability in three new regions – Canada(Montreal), Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (London). This expansion enables customers with latency-sensitive payment applications to build, deploy or migrate into additional AWS Regions without depending on cross-region support. For customers processing payment workloads in Europe, availability in London offers additional […]
GCP – Introducing an agentic commerce solution for merchants from PayPal and Google Cloud
Modern consumers demand a seamless, personalized shopping journey, from initial product discovery all the way to final purchase. With the rise of agentic AI, merchants now have an opportunity to deliver a truly assistive and cohesive experience across every touchpoint. That’s why today, building on our goal of transforming commerce, PayPal and Google Cloud are […]
GCP – Announcing new capabilities in Vertex AI Training for large-scale training
Building and scaling generative AI models demands enormous resources, but this process can get tedious. Developers wrestle with managing job queues, provisioning clusters, and resolving dependencies just to ensure consistent results. This infrastructure overhead, along with the difficulty of discovering the optimal training recipe and navigating the endless maze of hyperparameter and model architecture choices, […]