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GCP – Getting started with JAX multi-node applications with NVIDIA GPUs on Google Kubernetes Engine
JAX is a rapidly growing Python library for high-performance numerical computing and machine learning (ML) research. With applications in large language models, drug discovery, physics ML, reinforcement learning, and neural graphics, JAX has seen incredible adoption in the past few years. JAX offers numerous benefits for developers and researchers, including an easy-to-use NumPy API, auto […]

GCP – Expanding Cloud Armor DDoS protection to Network Load Balancing and VMs with Public IP addresses
Over the past few years, Google has observed that distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are increasing in frequency and growing exponentially in size. Google Cloud customers have been using Cloud Armor and leveraging the scale and capacity of Google’s network edge to protect their environment from some of the largest DDoS attacks ever seen. We are […]

GCP – How Project Shield helped protect U.S. midterm elections from DDoS attacks
Modern elections rely on public access to a vast array of online information, including political candidate stances, elections monitoring, and directions to polling sites. Public websites can be taken offline by an attacker with no special access, through the use of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. These DDoS attacks are often used to […]

GCP – Proven Here First: ManTech Leads the Way to Google Workspace
ManTech, a high tech, high-end engineering and cyber provider to the federal government, is making the move to Google Workspace. The 54-year old global tech company, with the history and expertise in bringing Digital to the Mission® with the best solutions and mission-focused technology to the federal community, is partnering with Google Public Sector to […]

GCP – Randstad adopts secure and agile computing with ChromeOS
Founded in the Netherlands in 1960, Randstad is the world’s largest HR service provider, operating in 38 countries, and is listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. The Randstad France Group operates across a range of professional services including recruitment, onboarding, management, training, and mobility. It has a national network of 900 locations, and the broader […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 C6in, M6in, M6idn, R6in, and R6idn metal instances are now available
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances, Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances, and Amazon EC2 R6in and R6idn instances are available in bare metal size. These sixth-generation network optimized instances are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. They are the first x86-based instances offering up to 200 Gbps of […]

AWS – AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Muscat, Oman
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Equinix MC1 data center in Muscat, Oman. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except China Beijing, operated by Sinnet), and China (Ningxia, operated by NWCD), AWS GovCloud Regions, […]

AWS – Application Auto Scaling now supports resource tagging
Starting today, Application Auto Scaling customers can use tags to manage the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions related to their auto scaled resources. Prior to this launch there was no way for customers to control IAM permissions based on custom resource tags. Now, permissions can be centrally managed for all resources tagged with […]

AWS – AWS now allows you to bring your Windows 11 licenses to Amazon WorkSpaces
Amazon Web Services announces the ability to run Windows 11 operating system on your Amazon Workspaces hosted on hardware that is dedicated to you in the AWS Cloud. To do this, you must Bring Your Own License (BYOL) and provide a Windows 11 license. You can now offer a consistent desktop experience to your users […]
AWS – Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports 3 additional AWS networking services
Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now allows you to view the network reachability between your source and destination in your virtual private clouds (VPCs) through Gateway Load Balancers, AWS Network Firewalls, and AWS PrivateLink services. In addition, you can also check network reachability between a source resource and your specified destination IP address. Read More for […]