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GCP – Google Cloud and AMD at STAC Summit NYC: H4D VMs for Finance
In capital markets, the race for low latency and high performance is relentless. That’s why Google Cloud is partnering with AMD at the premier STAC Summit NYC on Tuesday, October 28th! We’re joining forces to demonstrate how our combined innovations are tackling the most demanding workloads in the financial services industry, from real-time risk analysis […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch introduces interactive incident reporting
Amazon CloudWatch now offers interactive incident report generation, enabling customers to create comprehensive post-incident analysis reports in minutes. The new capability, available within CloudWatch investigations, automatically gathers and correlates your telemetry data, as well as your input and any actions taken during an investigation, and produces a streamlined incident report. Using the new feature you […]
AWS – Amazon U7i instances now available in AWS US East (Ohio) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 6TB of memory (u7i-6tb.112xlarge) are now available in the US East (Ohio) region. U7i-6tb instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-6tb instances offer 6TB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction […]
GCP – How Model Armor can help protect your AI apps from prompt injections and jailbreaks
As AI continues to rapidly develop, it’s crucial that IT teams address the business and organizational risks posed by two common threats: prompt injection and jailbreaking. Earlier this year we introduced Model Armor, a model-agnostic advanced screening solution that can help safeguard gen AI prompts and responses, and agent interactions. Model Armor offers a comprehensive […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports bundled multi-check canaries
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics introduces multi-check blueprints, enabling customers to create comprehensive synthetic tests using simple JSON configuration files. This new feature addresses the challenge many customers face when developing custom scripts for basic endpoint monitoring, which often lack the depth needed for thorough synthetic testing across various check types like HTTP endpoints with different authentication […]
AWS – Amazon DCV releases version 2025.0 with enhanced keyboard handling and WebAuthn support
AWS announces Amazon DCV 2025.0, the latest version of the high-performance remote display protocol that enables customers to securely access remote desktops and application sessions. This release focuses on enhancing user productivity and security while expanding platform compatibility for diverse use cases. Amazon DCV 2025.0 includes the following key features and improvements: Enhanced WebAuthn redirection […]
AWS – Amazon EKS Auto Mode now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West)
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Auto Mode is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West) regions. This feature fully automates compute, storage, and networking management for Kubernetes clusters. Additionally, EKS Auto Mode now supports FIPS-validated cryptographic modules through its Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) to help customers meet FedRAMP compliance requirements. EKS Auto […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift auto-copy is now available in 4 additional AWS regions
Amazon Redshift auto-copy is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Mexico (Central), and Asia Pacific (Taipei) regions. With Auto-Copy, you can set up continuous file ingestion from your Amazon S3 prefix and automatically load new files to tables in your Amazon Redshift data warehouse without the need for additional tools […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Agent adds support for Windows Event Log Filters
Amazon CloudWatch agent has added support for configurable Windows Event log filters. This new feature allows customers to selectively collect and send system and application events to CloudWatch from Windows hosts running on Amazon EC2 or on-premises. The addition of customizable filters helps customers to focus on events that meet specific criteria, streamlining log management […]
AWS – Amazon S3 now generates AWS CloudTrail events for S3 Tables maintenance operations
Amazon S3 adds AWS CloudTrail events for table maintenance activities in Amazon S3 Tables. You can now use AWS CloudTrail to track compaction and snapshot expiration operations performed by S3 Tables on your tables. S3 Tables automatically performs maintenance to optimize query performance and lower costs of your tables stored in S3 table buckets. You […]