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AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports July 2023 Release Update
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the July 2023 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c. Read More for the details.
AWS – PostgreSQL 16 Beta 3 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL 16 Beta 3 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the pre-release of PostgreSQL 16 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can deploy PostgreSQL 16 Beta 3 in the Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database, […]
GCP – Ten tips on how to learn the new way to cloud at Google Cloud Next ‘23
There’s been an explosion in demand for generative AI skills in the past six months, and it just keeps growing. The productivity savings from gen AI alone could add trillions of dollars in value to the global economy.1 That’s why this year at Google Cloud Next, we’ve made learning new generative AI skills a top […]
GCP – 4 key learnings to kickstart your startup’s generative AI journey
In recent months, AI has been the name of the game. Businesses and consumers clamor to get their hands on the latest technology. At Google Cloud, we’re excited about the value AI holds for society, businesses and for the billions of people who use our products every day. To make the most of the technology, […]
GCP – Using Google Cloud’s new Pricing API
If you are an existing Google Cloud user, you might already be familiar with the Billing Catalog API, which provides programmatic access to list prices for all public services and SKUs in billing. A service groups together SKUs of the same product line. Recently, Google Cloud released a new Pricing API that is an improvement […]
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 […]