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AWS – Agents for Amazon Bedrock add support for Anthropic Claude 3 Haiku and Sonnet
Agents for Amazon Bedrock enable developers to create generative AI-based applications that can complete complex tasks for a wide range of use cases and deliver answers based on company knowledge sources. In order to complete complex tasks, with high accuracy, reasoning capabilities of the underlying foundational model (FM) play a critical role. Read More for […]
AWS – Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock is generally available with new safety & privacy controls
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock that enables customers to implement safeguards across large language models (LLMs) based on their use cases and responsible AI policies. Customers can create multiple guardrails tailored to different use cases and apply them on multiple LLMs, providing a consistent user experience and standardizing […]
GCP – M-Trends 2024: Our View from the Frontlines
Attackers are taking greater strides to evade detection. This is one of the running themes in our latest release: M-Trends 2024. This edition of our annual report continues our tradition of providing relevant attacker and defender metrics, and insights into the latest attacker tactics, techniques and procedures, along with guidance and best practices on how […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon Route 53 Profiles
Today, AWS announced Amazon Route 53 Profiles, a new offering that allows you to define a standard DNS configuration, in the form of a Profile, that may include Route 53 private hosted zone (PHZ) associations, Route 53 Resolver forwarding rules, and Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall rule groups, and apply this configuration to multiple VPCs […]
AWS – Announcing two new larger instance types for Amazon WorkSpaces Web
Today, AWS End User Computing services announced availability of two larger, more powerful instance types for Amazon WorkSpaces Web. These new instance types provide higher performance options to help customers run demanding workloads, helping to deliver significant performance improvements for use cases like streaming audio or video, real-time collaboration, screen sharing, video conferencing, or processing […]
AWS – Amazon Inspector agentless vulnerability assessments for Amazon EC2 are now Generally Available (GA)
Amazon Inspector now offers continuous monitoring of your Amazon EC2 instances for software vulnerabilities without installing an agent or additional software. Currently, Inspector leverages the widely deployed AWS Systems Manager (SSM) agent to assess your EC2 instances for third-party software vulnerabilities. With this expansion, Inspector now offers two scan modes for EC2 scanning, hybrid scan […]
AWS – Workflow approvals for Amazon CodeCatalyst
Today Amazon CodeCatalyst announces support for approval gates within a workflow. Workflows provide an automated procedure for building, testing, and deploying code as part of a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) system. Approval gates pause the workflow run at the gate so that a user can validate whether it should be allowed to proceed. […]
AWS – Amazon Time Sync Service expands Microsecond-Accurate time to 87 additonal EC2 instance types
The Amazon Time Sync Service now supports clock synchronization within microseconds of UTC on 87 additional Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types in supported regions, including all C7i, M7i, R7i, C7a, M7a, R7a, and M7g instances. Read More for the details.
Azure – The billing meter for Azure Databricks materialized views and streaming tables will change 1 May 2024
Azure Databricks materialized views and streaming tables Billing change Read More for the details.
GCP – Ninja Van: delivering flexibility, stability and scalability to core applications with a cloud container platform
At Ninja Van, running applications in a stable, scalable environment is business-critical. We are a fast-growing tech-enabled express logistics business with operations across South East Asia. In the past 12 months, we’ve partnered with close to two million businesses to deliver around two million parcels daily to customers, with the help of more than 40,000 […]
