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GCP – How WindTL is transforming wildfire management with Google Cloud
Imagine a world where we could outsmart wildfires, predict their chaotic spread, and shield communities from their devastating reach. That’s the vision Rocio Frej Vitalle and the Improving Aviation team had when they created WindTL, a tool driven by the raw power of AI and data. Turning this vision into a practical reality meant building […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: How digital sovereignty builds better borders for the future
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for March 2025. Today, Archana Ramamoorthy, senior director of product management, Google Cloud, explains our approach to digital sovereignty and we believe strongly in meeting this vital customer need. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If […]
AWS – AWS Identity and Access Management now supports dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) environments
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) announces a new dual-stack public endpoint, enabling customers to connect to IAM over the public internet using IPv6, IPv4, or dual-stack clients. Dual-stack support is also available when customers access the new IAM endpoint privately from their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using AWS PrivateLink. With simultaneous support for […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces the general availability of industry-leading image content filters
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces the general availability of image content filters – offering industry-leading text and image content safeguards that help customers block up to 88% of harmful multi modal content. This new capability removes the heavy lifting required by customers to build their own safeguards for image content or spend cycles with manual content […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 now supports more bandwidth and jumbo frames to select destinations
Amazon EC2 now supports up to the full EC2 instance bandwidth for inter-region VPC peering traffic and to AWS Direct Connect. Additionally, EC2 supports jumbo frames up to 8500 Bytes for cross region VPC peering. Before today, the egress bandwidth for EC2 instances was limited to 50% of the aggregate bandwidth limit for instances with […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker introduces metadata rules to enforce standards and improve data governance
The next generation of SageMaker brings together widely adopted AWS machine learning and analytics capabilities, delivering an integrated experience with unified access to all data. Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse supports unified data access, and Amazon SageMaker Catalog, built on Amazon DataZone, offers catalog and governance features to meet enterprise security needs. Amazon SageMaker Catalog now supports […]
AWS – Amazon DataZone now supports metadata rules for publishing
Amazon DataZone is a data management service that makes it faster and easier for customers to catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored across AWS, on premises, and third-party sources. Amazon DataZone now supports metadata rules for data publishing workflows, in addition to existing support for subscription workflows. This enhancement allows organizations to enforce metadata […]
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache now supports AWS PrivateLink in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Regions
You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access Amazon ElastiCache from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises networks, without exposing traffic to the public internet and securing your network traffic. The Amazon ElastiCache API supports AWS PrivateLink in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in AWS US West (N. California)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances are available in AWS US West (N. California) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 R8g instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory caches, and real-time […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker AI is now available in Mexico (Central)
Starting today, you can build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models in Mexico (Central). Amazon SageMaker AI is a fully managed platform that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models quickly. SageMaker AI removes the heavy lifting from each step of the machine […]