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AWS – Amazon MemoryDB for Redis now supports IAM Authentication
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis now supports AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) authentication access to its clusters. With this launch, you can associate IAM users and roles with MemoryDB users and manage their cluster access. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon CodeGuru Security plugin for SageMaker Studio and Jupyter Notebooks now in preview
Amazon CodeGuru Security now supports security and code quality scans for Amazon SageMaker Studio and Jupyter notebooks. This new capability assists notebook users in detecting security vulnerabilities such as injection flaws, data leaks, weak cryptography, or missing encryption within the notebook cells. Users can also detect many common issues that affect the readability, reproducibility, and […]
GCP – At Google I/O, generative AI gets to work
Over the past decade, artificial intelligence has evolved from experimental prototypes and early successes to mainstream enterprise use. And the recent advancements in generative AI have begun to change the way we create, connect, and collaborate. As Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in his keynote, every business and organization is thinking about how to drive […]
GCP – Google Cloud advances generative AI at I/O: new foundation models, embeddings, and tuning tools in Vertex AI
Generative AI has unleashed a new breed of digital assistants, content creation tools, and applications, changing how apps are built, who can build them, and the capabilities end users expect from them. Google is a leader in this field, from the creation of Google’s Transformer architecture that makes generative AI possible, to today’s announcement of […]
GCP – Introducing Duet AI for Google Cloud – an AI-powered collaborator
Cloud developers — you’ve got it all. You can code in your choice of languages, enjoy portability with containers, minimize complexity with serverless, and manage the entire software lifecycle by following DevOps principles. But let’s face it, building and onboarding new cloud applications still requires a lot of manual planning, synthesis, and, yes, hard work. […]
GCP – Announcing A3 supercomputers with NVIDIA H100 GPUs, purpose-built for AI
Implementing state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models requires large amounts of computation, both to train the underlying models, and to serve those models once they’re trained. Given the demands of these workloads, a one-size-fits-all approach is not enough — you need infrastructure that’s purpose-built for AI. Together with our partners, we offer […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas can now operationalize ML models in production
You can now register machine learning (ML) models built in Amazon SageMaker Canvas with a single click to SageMaker Model registry enabling you to operationalize ML models in production. SageMaker Canvas is a visual interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any ML experience or having […]
AWS – Introducing Cedar, an open-source language for access control
Today, AWS open-sourced the Cedar policy language and authorization engine. You can use Cedar to express fine-grained permissions as easy-to-understand policies enforced in your applications, and you can decouple access control from your application logic. Cedar supports common authorization models such as role-based access control and attribute-based access control. It follows a new verification-guided development […]
AWS – Amazon MemoryDB for Redis adds support for Redis 7
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis now supports Redis 7. This release brings several new features to MemoryDB: Redis Functions: MemoryDB adds support for Redis Functions, and provides a managed experience enabling developers to execute LUA scripts with application logic durably stored on the MemoryDB cluster. ACL improvements: MemoryDB adds support for the next version of Redis […]
AWS – Announcing Provisioned Concurrency for Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference
Today, we are excited to announce general availability of Provisioned Concurrency support for Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference. Provisioned Concurrency allows you to deploy models on serverless endpoints with predictable performance and high scalability. You can add provisioned concurrency to your serverless endpoints, and for the pre-defined amount of provisioned concurrency SageMaker will keep the endpoints […]