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AWS – AWS WAF is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
Starting today, you can use AWS WAF in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps you protect your web application resources against common web exploits and bots that can affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. You can protect the following resource types: Amazon CloudFront distributions, […]
AWS – Three enhancements for SES Mail Manager to improve interoperability, security, and compliance
SES Mail Manager announces three new features. The first adds support for authenticated connections to ingress endpoints via TCP port 587 (email submission port). The second introduces verified customer identity enforcement when using Mail Manager SMTP relays, and enables customers to create rule conditions in which MIME headers can be searched and used for routing […]
GCP – Google Cloud database news roundup, October 2024 edition
Leaves are falling, temperatures are dropping, but things were heating up in the world of Google Cloud databases this October! Here’s a recap of the latest news and updates. Key databases announcements Database Center simplifies database management with a single, unified view of our customer’s entire database landscape. This month we launched two exciting features […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora supports rolling upgrades for Operating System upgrades
Amazon Aurora announced rolling upgrades support for Operating System (OS) upgrades. Aurora now seamlessly upgrades the OS version of Aurora database clusters while maintaining read access to the data when using Aurora cluster or reader endpoint. The feature automatically applies upgrades to a few reader instances at a time so the database can continue serving […]
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports User-Defined Types
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that offers 99.999% availability. Today, Amazon Keyspaces added support for Cassandra’s User Defined Type (UDT). With support for UDTs, you can continue using any custom data types that are defined in your Cassandra workloads in Keyspaces, without […]
GCP – Unlocking the power of Spanner: 10 partners to revolutionize your data
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses need a database solution that can keep up with their evolving demands. Spanner is the always-on, globally consistent, and virtually unlimited-scale database, powering a wide array of modern applications across different industries. Spanner powers a number of Google products with billions of users, including Gmail, and has become the […]
GCP – PyTorch/XLA 2.5: vLLM support and an improved developer experience
Machine learning engineers are bullish on PyTorch/XLA, a Python package that uses the XLA deep learning compiler to connect the PyTorch deep learning framework and Cloud TPUs. And now, PyTorch/XLA 2.5 is here, along with a set of improvements to add support for vLLM and enhance the overall developer experience. Featured in this release are: […]
GCP – Accelerate retail media success with EPAM and Google Cloud
Retail media networks, a type of advertising platform that allows retailers to sell ad space on their digital channels to third-party brands, are nothing new. But they are about to change dramatically in the coming year. Consumers are increasingly privacy-conscious and desire more personalized ad recommendations. EPAM and Google Cloud have been working on retail […]
GCP – Arize, Vertex AI API: Evaluation workflows to accelerate generative app development and AI ROI
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, enterprise AI engineering teams must constantly seek cutting-edge solutions to drive innovation, enhance productivity, and maintain a competitive edge. In leveraging an AI observability and evaluation platform like Arize AI with the advanced capabilities of Google’s suite of AI tools, enterprises looking to push the boundaries of […]
AWS – AWS Glue Studio data preparation experience is available in additional regions
AWS Glue Studio Visual ETL data preparation authoring is a no code data preparation user experience for business users and data analysts with a spreadsheet-style UI that runs data integration jobs at scale on AWS Glue for Spark. AWS Glue Studio Visual ETL data preparation authoring is generally available in the following AWS regions starting […]