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AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces helps simplify Bring Your Own License (BYOL) account management
Amazon WorkSpaces now offers APIs to link your AWS accounts, within the same region, so that these accounts can use the same underlying dedicated infrastructure. AWS enables you to run your Bring Your Own License (BYOL) WorkSpaces on infrastructure that is dedicated to you in the AWS Cloud, and these new APIs make it easier […]
Azure – General availability: HBv4-series & HX-series VMs are now available in Sweden Central.
HBv4 virtual machines (VMs) are optimized for various HPC workloads such as computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, frontend and backend EDA, rendering, molecular dynamics, computational geoscience, weather simulation, and financial risk analysis. HX-series Virtual Machines (VMs) are optimized for large memory HPC workloads such as backend EDA, finite element analysis, computational geoscience, and big […]
AWS – AWS Storage Gateway is now available in AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region
AWS Storage Gateway expands availability to the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region enabling customers to deploy and manage hybrid cloud storage for their on-premises workloads. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Machine Learning data collector is now generally available
Azure Machine Learning data collector provides real-time logging of input and output data from models that are deployed to managed online endpoints or Kubernetes online endpoints. This data can be seamlessly used for model monitoring, debugging, or auditing, thereby providing observability into the performance of your deployed models. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports client authentication hook for Trusted Language Extensions
Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL (pg_tle) now supports client authentication hook that lets you run additional checks over the existing authentication process, allowing you to enhance the security posture of your databases. A hook is an internal callback mechanism available to developers for extending PostgreSQL’s core functionality. By using hooks, developers can implement their own […]
AWS – Meta Llama 3 foundation models now available on AWS
Starting today, the next generation of the Meta Llama models, Llama 3, is now available via Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a machine learning (ML) hub that offers pretrained models, built-in algorithms, and pre-built solutions to help you quickly get started with ML. You can deploy and use Llama 3 foundation models with a few clicks in SageMaker […]
AWS – AWS Partner Central launches enhanced user management capabilities
AWS Partner Central has enhanced the user management experience in AWS Partner Central with a modernized look and feel and more customized capabilities. Now, alliance leads and alliance team users can assign specific user roles with distinctive permission sets and seamlessly invite new users to register via email, specifying a role assignment upon registration. These […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon Neptune connector for Nodestream, Parquet, and SBOM
Today, we are announcing the availability of the Amazon Neptune connector for Nodestream, the Parquet input file format for Nodestream, and the Nodestream Security Bill Of Material (SBOM) plug-in for CycloneDX and SPDX file formats. Read More for the details.
Azure – GA: Azure Monitor log search alerts support managed identities
A common challenge for developers is the management of credentials for applications to use when connecting to resources. Managed identities provide an automatically managed identity in Microsoft Entra ID. Applications can use managed identities to obtain Microsoft Entra tokens without having to manage any credentials. Read More for the details.
AWS – New self-service tasks for Services Partners in AWS Partner Central
AWS Partners with services solutions will now have additional guidance available through the tasks feature in AWS Partner Central to help expediate their self-service journey with AWS. With this release, partners in the early stages of their engagement with the AWS Partner Network (APN) will be provided with a series of personalized tasks guiding them toward […]