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AWS – Amazon EC2 I4i instances now available in AWS Europe (Spain) region
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of Amazon EC2 I4i Instances in the AWS Europe (Spain) region. Designed for large I/O intensive storage workloads, these instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake) and deliver high local storage performance within Amazon EC2 using 2nd generation AWS Nitro NVMe SSDs. I4i […]
AWS – Amazon VPC Route Server announces logging enhancements
Amazon VPC Route Server enhances connectivity monitoring and logging with new network metrics. These metrics allow customers to proactively monitor network health, troubleshoot network issues and gain visibility into route propagation and peer connectivity. Previously, customers would manually track Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) session changes and often required AWS Support […]
AWS – Amazon Q Developer now helps customers optimize AWS costs
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces that Amazon Q Developer now provides personalized cost optimization recommendations to help customers easily identify and implement savings opportunities. This new capability helps customers find and implement opportunities for rightsizing instances, purchasing Savings Plans and Reserved Instances, terminating idle resources, and more – all through natural language conversations. Amazon Q […]
GCP – How to build a digital twin to boost resilience
“There’s no red teaming on the factory floor,” isn’t an OSHA safety warning, but it should be — and for good reason. Adversarial testing in most, if not all, manufacturing production environments is prohibited because the safety and productivity risks outweigh the value. If resources were not a constraint, the security team would go build […]
GCP – Streamline your your AI/ML data transfers with new GKE Volume Populator
As an AI/ML developer, you have a lot of decisions to make when it comes to choosing your infrastructure — even if you’re running on top of a fully managed Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) environment. While GKE acts as the central orchestrator for your AI/ML workloads — managing compute resources, scaling your workloads, and simplifying […]
GCP – How Alpian is redefining private banking for the digital age with gen AI
As the first fully cloud-native private bank in Switzerland, Alpian stands at the forefront of digital innovation in the financial services sector. With its unique model blending personal wealth management and digital convenience, Alpian offers clients a seamless, high-value banking experience. Through its digital-first approach built on the cloud, Alpian has achieved unprecedented agility, scalability, […]
GCP – Emulating the air-gapped experience: GDC Sandbox is now generally available
Many organizations in regulated industries and the public sector that want to start using generative AI face significant challenges in adopting cloud-based AI solutions due to stringent regulatory mandates, sovereignty requirements, the need for low-latency processing, and the sheer scale of their on-premises data. Together, these can all present institutional blockers to AI adoption, and […]
GCP – Is your browser a blindspot in your security strategy?
In today’s digital world, we spend countless hours in our browsers. It’s where we work, collaborate, and access information. But have you ever stopped to consider if you’re fully leveraging the browser security features available to protect your organisation? We explore this in our new paper “The Security Blindspot: Real Attack Insights From Real Browser […]
AWS – AWS Private CA announces support for Microsoft Active Directory child domains
AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) now supports Active Directory (AD) child domains through the Private CA Connector for AD. With this feature, customers get a consistent experience using AWS Private CA across parent and child AD domains. AD administrators can issue certificates to users, computers, and devices in a child domain independently of […]
AWS – AWS Marketplace now supports a localized experience in four additional languages
AWS Marketplace has expanded its global accessibility by introducing support for French, Spanish, Korean, and Japanese languages across both the website and AWS console. This enhancement allows customers to discover, evaluate, procure, and deploy solutions in their preferred language, reducing friction for global customers and enhancing their purchasing process. For a localized experience, buyers select […]