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AWS – PostgreSQL 16 Release Candidate 1 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL 16 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) 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 RC1 in the Preview Environment and have the same benefits of a fully […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches scaled shared folders for asset sharing at scale in a multi-tenant setup
Amazon QuickSight now supports scaled shared folders for multi-tenant setup that enables you to share QuickSight asset dashboards, analyses, datasets and datasources at scale with all your tenants at once. Prior to this launch, you could share a folder with up to hundred tenants at a time and had to create copies of folders and assets […]
GCP – Introducing Duet AI in Apigee API Management and Application Integration
For years, Google Cloud’s Apigee API Management has been helping customers around the globe build APIs for diverse use cases, environments, and scale. Now, with the help of generative AI, we are reimagining the way APIs and integrations are developed, making it easier for both seasoned and new developers to seamlessly manage communications within their […]
Azure – Public Preview: Azure Log Alerts support for Azure Resource Graph (ARG)
We are now introducing support for running queries also on Azure Resource Graph (ARG) tables, and even joining data between Azure Resource Graph (ARG) data sources from your Log Analytics workspace and Application Insights resources in a single query. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Firewall: Auto-Learn SNAT routes feature is now in public preview
Azure Firewall can now learn address ranges and automatically configure them to be excluded from SNAT, to reduce time and complexity spent manually defining SNAT private ranges. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Firewall: Explicit Proxy is now in public preview
This configuration allows traffic from the sending application to be directed to the private IP address of the firewall, facilitating direct egress from the firewall without the need for a UDR. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Firewall: Poland Central Region is now in general availability
Azure Firewall is now generally available in the Poland Central region. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Firewall Single-Click Upgrade and Downgrade is now in general availability
This feature allows you to upgrade your firewall without service downtime, with a single click of a button. Read More for the details.
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Late August 2023
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2023. As you read this, we’ll be kicking off the third and final day of Google Cloud Next, our annual conference where we unveil our latest advancements — especially in security. In his guest column below, my colleague Sunil Potti, vice president and general manager, Google […]
GCP – How to scale AI training to up to tens of thousands of Cloud TPU chips with Multislice
The largest generative AI models are expected to surpass hundreds of billions of parameters and use trillions of training tokens. These models will require tens of EFLOPs (1018 FLOPs) of AI supercomputing to maintain training times of several weeks or less. Achieving that performance will require tens of thousands of accelerators working efficiently together. But […]