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GCP – Building Generative AI applications made easy with Vertex AI PaLM API and LangChain
At Google I/O 2023, we announced Vertex AI PaLM 2 foundation models for Text and Embeddings moving to GA and expanded foundation models to new modalities – Codey for code, Imagen for images and Chirp for speech – and new ways to leverage and tune models. These models help developers to build powerful yet responsible […]
GCP – Announcing general availability of Cloud NAT support for Standard Tier Egress
We are excited to announce general availability of Cloud NAT support for network services Standard Tier. Standard Tier delivers traffic from Google Cloud resources to external systems by routing it over the internet. Premier and Standard are network service tiers that let you optimize connectivity between systems on the internet and your Google Cloud instances. […]
Azure – Public preview: Support for new custom error pages in Application Gateway
Azure Application Gateway introduces more response codes to configure the custom error pages. Read More for the details.
AWS – Network Load Balancer now supports security groups
Network Load Balancers (NLB) now supports security groups, enabling you to filter the traffic that your NLB accepts and forwards to your application. Using security groups, you can configure rules to help ensure that your NLB only accepts traffic from trusted IP addresses, and centrally enforce access control policies. This improves your application’s security posture […]
AWS – AWS Firewall Manager announces enhancements to optimize AWS WAF web ACL creation in AWS accounts
Starting today, AWS Firewall Manager now supports a new policy feature that allows you to ensure AWS WAF web ACLs are exclusively created in AWS accounts with resources in scope. Additionally, AWS Firewall Manager removes web ACLs from AWS accounts that no longer have resources within scope. In the past, AWS Firewall Manager would create […]
GCP – New ISO 27001 and SOC Security Certifications for Google Maps Platform
We now have ISO 27001, SOC 2 and SOC 3security certifications for 25 Google Maps Platform products. Certifications such as these provide independent third-party validations of our ongoing commitment to world-class security and help our customers with their own compliance efforts. Google has spent years building one of the world’s most advanced infrastructures, and through […]
AWS – Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region
Starting today, you can enable Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) from the AWS Console and launch ROSA clusters in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon MWAA now supports Apache Airflow version 2.6
You can now create Apache Airflow version 2.6 environments on Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA). Apache Airflow 2.6 is the latest minor release of the popular open-source tool that helps customers author, schedule, and monitor workflows. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry and Schema Discovery now in additional regions
The Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry and Schema Discovery features are now available in the Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Europe (Milan), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Africa (Cape Town), Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Regions, allowing you to discover and store event structure – or schema – in a shared, central location. […]
AWS – AWS Service Catalog announces support for HashiCorp Terraform Cloud
Today, AWS announces AWS Service Catalog support for HashiCorp Terraform Cloud. With this launch, customers using Terraform Cloud can provide self-service provisioning with governance to their teams. AWS customers can now use Service Catalog as the single tool to organize, govern, and distribute their Terraform configurations within AWS at scale. Customers can access Service Catalog […]