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AWS – Amazon EC2 M7i and M7i-flex instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i and M7i-flex instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) region. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. M7i-flex […]
AWS – AWS Console Mobile App now offers access to AWS Support
AWS customers can now view and manage their support cases from the AWS Console Mobile App. Customers can view and reply to case correspondence, and resolve, reopen, or create support cases while on the go and away from their workstations. Visit the Services tab and select “Support” to get started. The AWS Console Mobile App […]
AWS – Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer and Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer are now available in five additional AWS Regions
With this launch, Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer and Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer are now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Europe (Zurich), and Middle East (UAE). VPC Reachability Analyzer allows you to diagnose network reachability between a source resource and a destination resource in your virtual private clouds (VPCs) […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight now supports connectivity to Apache Impala
Today, Amazon QuickSight is announcing the general availability of a native Apache Impala connector. Apache Impala is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL query engine that runs natively on Apache Hadoop. QuickSight customers can now connect using their username password credentials for Impala and import their data into SPICE. Apache Impala connector for Amazon QuickSight […]
GCP – Immutable, Air-Gapped, and Integrated: Data Protection for your Cloud SQL instances just got better
In a world where data is your most valuable asset, protecting it isn’t just a nice-to-have — it’s a necessity. That’s why we are thrilled to announce a significant leap forward in protecting the data in your Cloud SQL instances, with Enhanced Backups for Cloud SQL. This powerful new capability integrates Google Cloud Backup and […]
GCP – BigQuery under the hood: Short query optimizations in the advanced runtime
In a prior blog post, we introduced BigQuery’s advanced runtime, where we detailed enhanced vectorization and discussed techniques like dictionary and run-length encoded data, vectorized filter evaluation and compute pushdown, and parallelizable execution. This blog post dives into short query optimizations, a key component of BigQuery’s advanced runtime. These optimizations can significantly speed up the […]
GCP – Accelerating FedRAMP 20x: How Google Cloud is automating compliance
Google is committed to helping federal agencies meet their mission, more securely and more efficiently, with innovative cloud technologies. Today, we’re reinforcing our commitment to FedRAMP 20x, an innovative pilot program that marks a paradigm shift in federal cloud authorization. FedRAMP 20x is a new assessment process designed to move away from traditional narrative-based requirements […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless introduces automatic semantic enrichment
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now offers automatic semantic enrichment, a breakthrough feature that simplifies semantic search implementation. You can now boost your search relevance with minimal effort, eliminating complex manual configurations through an automated setup process. Semantic search goes beyond keyword matching by understanding the context and meaning of search queries. For example, when searching for […]
AWS – AWS Private CA expands AWS PrivateLink support to FIPS endpoints
AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) now supports AWS PrivateLink with all AWS Private CA Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) endpoints that are available in commercial AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With this launch, you can establish a private connection between your virtual private cloud (VPC) and AWS Private CA FIPS […]
AWS – Automated Reasoning checks is now available in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails
AWS announces the general availability of Automated Reasoning checks, a safeguard within Amazon Bedrock Guardrails that uses formal verification techniques to validate the accuracy and policy compliance of outputs from generative AI models. Automated Reasoning checks deliver up to 99% accuracy at detecting correct responses from LLMs – giving you provable assurance in detecting AI […]