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GCP – Beyond the basics: Build real-world gen AI skills with the latest learning paths from Google Cloud
The majority of organizations don’t feel ready for the AI era. In fact, 62% say they don’t have the expertise they need to unlock AI’s full potential.1 As the leader of learning for Google Cloud, the only thing that surprises me about that number is how low it is. I meet with customers every day, […]
GCP – From AI to Zero Trust: Google Cloud Security delivers comprehensive solutions for the public sector
Government organizations and agencies face significant challenges from threat actors seeking to compromise data and critical infrastructure, and impact national and economic stability. These attacks target a broad range of industries and organizations, from water security to rural health care, via external targeting and insider threats. Government organizations are in the top five industries targeted […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances are now available in additional AWS Regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex instances that deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances, are available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Europe (Frankfurt) regions. C7i-flex instances expand the EC2 Flex instances portfolio to provide the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a majority […]
AWS – AWS CodePipeline supports automatic retry on stage failure
AWS CodePipeline V2 type pipelines introduces the ability to automatically retry a stage if there is a failure in the stage. A stage fails if any action in the stage fails. To use automatic retry, set “Retry” as the result for the on failure lifecycle event of a stage, and optionally configure the flag to […]
GCP – Sustainable silicon to intelligent clouds: collaborating for the future of computing
Editor’s note: Today, we hear from Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Google VP and Technical Fellow and Amber Huffman, Principal Engineer. Partha delivered a keynote address today at the 2024 OCP Global Summit, an annual conference for leaders, researchers, and pioneers in the open hardware industry. Amber is on the board of directors at the Open Compute Project […]
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports 1-click connectivity to EC2 instances in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Aurora databases now support 1-click connection to an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) compute instance during database creation in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. When provisioning a database using the Amazon RDS console, you now have the option to select an EC2 instance and with a single […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 11.4 with new password validation options
Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB major version 11.4, the latest long-term maintenance release from the MariaDB community. Amazon RDS for MariaDB 11.4 now supports the Simple Password Check Plugin, and Cracklib Password Check Plugin for password validation. You can use these plugins together, or individually to enforce the security policies appropriate for your […]
AWS – Finch expands support to Linux, streamlining container development across platforms
Today, AWS announced the general availability of Linux support for Finch, an open source command line tool that allows developers to build, run, and publish Linux containers. Finch simplifies container development by bundling a minimal native client with a curated selection of open-source components, allowing developers to build and manage containers without the hassle of […]
AWS – AWS announces general availability of Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift
Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now generally available, enabling customers to run high-performance analytics on their DynamoDB data in Amazon Redshift with no impact on production workloads running on DynamoDB. As data is written into a DynamoDB table, it is seamlessly made available in Amazon Redshift, eliminating the need for customers to […]
AWS – AWS access portal now offers streamlined sign in for AWS Console Mobile App
AWS IAM Identity Center now provides customers with streamlined first-time access to the AWS Console Mobile Application, reducing the required user actions by more than half. In the past, AWS IAM Identity Center customers who wanted to access the AWS Console Mobile Application were required to find and manually enter their AWS access portal sign […]