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AWS – AWS Audit Manager enhances evidence collection for better compliance insights
Today, AWS Audit Manager announces it has updated 14 standard frameworks, to enhance evidence collection capabilities and help customers meet their compliance requirements while optimizing costs. This update improves evidence relevance across key frameworks like SOC 2 and PCI DSS v4.0, and enhances framework coverage for better compliance validation. These updates will streamline number of […]
AWS – AWS Deadline Cloud now supports resource endpoints for connecting shared storage to service-managed fleets
AWS Deadline Cloud now supports connecting resources in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), like shared storage or a license server, to your service-managed fleets. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for teams creating computer-generated graphics and visual effects for films, television, broadcasting, web content, and design. Render farm […]
AWS – AWS Client VPN extends availability to two additional AWS Regions
AWS Client VPN is now available in two new Asia Pacific Regions: Malaysia and Thailand. This fully managed service enables customers to securely connect their remote workforce to resources in AWS or on-premises networks. AWS Client VPN eliminates the need for hardware VPN appliances and complex operational management through its pay-as-you-go model. Organizations can easily […]
AWS – Simplify AWS Organization Tag Policies using new wildcard statement
AWS Organizations Tag Policies announces wildcard support for Tag Policies using ALL_SUPPORTED in the Resource element. With this, you can simplify your policy authoring experience and reduce your policy size. You can now specify that your Tag Policy applies to all supported resource types for a given AWS service in a single line, instead of […]
AWS – IAM Access Analyzer supports additional analysis findings and checks in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Identity and Access Manager (IAM) Access Analyzer now supports unused access findings, internal access findings, and custom policy checks in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions to help guide you towards least privilege. IAM Access Analyzer continuously analyzes your accounts to identify unused access and surfaces findings to highlight unused roles, unused access […]
GCP – 25+ top gen AI how-to guides for enterprise
The best way to learn AI is by building. From finding quick ways to deploy open models to building complex, multi-agentic systems, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of resources out there. To that end, we’ve compiled a living, curated collection of our 25+ favorite how-to guides for Google Cloud. This collection […]
GCP – The Dataproc advantage: Advanced Spark features that will transform your analytics and AI
With its exceptional price-performance, Google Cloud’s Dataproc has evolved from a simple, managed open-source software (OSS) service to a powerhouse in Apache Spark and open lakehouses, driving the analytics and AI workloads of many leading global enterprises. The recent launch of the Lightning Engine for Spark, a multi-layer optimization engine, makes Dataproc’s performance even more […]
AWS – Amazon MQ now supports Graviton3-based M7g instances for RabbitMQ
Amazon MQ now supports Graviton3 based M7g instances for RabbitMQ in all available regions across both single instance and highly available Multi-AZ cluster deployment modes. Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ cluster brokers running on M7g instances deliver up to 50% higher workload capacity and up to 85% throughput improvements over comparable Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ cluster […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C6in instances are now available in Canada West (Calgary)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances are available in AWS Region Canada West (Calgary). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, for 2x more network bandwidth over comparable fifth-generation instances. Customers can […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Serverless adds support for Inline Runtime Permissions for job runs
Amazon EMR Serverless makes it simple to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Today, we are excited to announce support for specifying permissions inline when submitting a job run. This allows you to define fine-grained, tenant-specific permission scopes per job run for multi-tenant use cases. When submitting […]