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GCP – Enabling a safe agentic web with reCAPTCHA
The emergence of the agentic web — an internet where autonomous AI agents can independently execute complex, multi-step tasks and transactions that previously required human interaction — promises a fundamental shift for how customers and businesses interact. While agents can help deliver a frictionless customer experience, they can also enable new abuse and fraud vectors. […]
GCP – Agent Factory Recap: AI Agents for Data Engineering and Data Science
Welcome to another exciting episode of The Agent Factory, the podcast that goes beyond the hype to build production-ready AI agents! In this episode, we were thrilled to host Lucia Subatin, who guided us through the world of data agents and their transformative power for data engineers and scientists. She also showcased some truly innovative […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports 10x larger record sizes
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports record sizes up to 10MiB, a tenfold increase from the previous 1MiB limit. This launch enables customers to publish intermittent larger data payloads in their data streams while continuing to use existing Kinesis Data Streams APIs in their applications. This launch is accompanied by a 2x increase in the […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 I7i instances now available in additional AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of high performance Storage Optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances in the AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions. Powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, these new instances deliver up to 23% better compute performance and more than 10% better price […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Im4gn instances now available in AWS Europe (Milan) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 Im4gn Instances are available in Europe (Milan) region. Im4gn instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors. They feature up to 30TB of instance storage with the 2nd Generation AWS Nitro SSDs that are custom-designed by AWS for the storage performance of I/O intensive […]
GCP – Keys to the Kingdom: A Defender’s Guide to Privileged Account Monitoring
Written by: Bhavesh Dhake, Will Silverstone, Matthew Hitchcock, Aaron Fletcher The Criticality of Privileged Access in Today’s Threat Landscape Privileged access stands as the most critical pathway for adversaries seeking to compromise sensitive systems and data. Its protection is not only a best practice, it is a fundamental imperative for organizational resilience. The increasing complexity […]
GCP – Expanding investment in our Google Public Sector partner ecosystem
As AI technology advances at a rapid pace, I am pleased to announce a new set of investments in our partner ecosystem at today’s Partner Connect at the Google Public Sector Summit. Our new initiatives will deepen our collaboration and empower our partners to capitalize on the incredible momentum in AI. We are focused on […]
AWS – AWS Resource Explorer supports 47 additional resource types
AWS Resource Explorer now supports 47 more resource types services including Amazon Bedrock, AWS Shield, and AWS Glue. With this release, customers can now search for the following resource types in AWS Resource Explorer: 1. amplify:apps 26. profile:domains/object-types 2. aoss:collection 27. resiliencehub:app 3. app-integrations:application 28. route53-recovery-control:controlpanel/routingcontrol 4. appconfig:application/environment 29. route53-recovery-readiness:cell 5. appconfig:extensionassociation 30. s3:storage-lens-group 6. […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in Europe (London)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-flex instances are available in the Europe (London) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The R8i and R8i-flex instances offer up […]
AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) announces upgraded query planner that can run queries up to 10x faster
Today, Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) announces a new query planner, featuring advanced query optimization capabilities and improved performance. PlannerVersion 2.0 for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) 5.0 delivers up to 10x performance improvement over the prior version when using find and update operators with indexes. Performance improvements primarily come from using more optimal index […]