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AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Europe (Zurich) regions
We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is expanding availability to the Amazon OpenSearch Serverless to Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Europe (Zurich) regions. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. OpenSearch Serverless’ compute […]
AWS – Amazon EFS now supports up to 60 GiB/s (a 2x increase) of read throughput
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) has increased the maximum filesystem read throughput to 60 GiB/s (a 2x increase). Amazon EFS provides serverless, fully elastic file storage that makes it simple to set up and run file workloads in the AWS cloud. In August 2024, we increased the maximum Elastic Throughput limits to 30 GiB/s […]
AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports custom shared network storage
Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports custom shared network storage as a new storage option for your Windows AppStream 2.0 users. With the launch of this feature, users can easily access and collaborate on shared files without transferring files manually. The shared network storage is implemented as an SMB (Server Message Block) network drive. When administrators […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks now support G6e instance types
We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 G6e instances on SageMaker Studio notebooks. Amazon EC2 G6e instances are powered by up to 8 NVIDIA L40s Tensor Core GPUs with 48 GB of memory per GPU and third generation AMD EPYC processors. G6e instances deliver up to 2.5x better performance compared to EC2 […]
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports M7g and R7g database instances in additional AWS Regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now support AWS Graviton3-based M7g database instances in Europe (Paris), and R7g database instances in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Europe (Milan). With this regional expansion, Graviton3 database instances are now available for Amazon RDS in 21 regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US […]
GCP – Founders share five takeaways from the Google Cloud Startup Summit
We recently hosted our annual Google Cloud Startup Summit, and we were thrilled to showcase a wide range of AI startups leveraging Google Cloud, including Higgsfield AI, Click Therapeutics, Baseten, LiveX AI, Reve AI, and Vellum. As a former co-founder and venture capitalist, I was inspired by the remarkable solutions these startups are developing and […]
GCP – Reltio’s Data Plane Transformation with Spanner on Google Cloud
In today’s data-driven landscape, data unification plays a pivotal role in ensuring data consistency and accuracy across an organization. Reltio, a leading provider of AI-powered data unification and management solutions, recently undertook a significant step in modernizing its data infrastructure by migrating from self-managed Cassandra to Spanner on Google Cloud. The outcome of this endeavor […]
GCP – How Shopify improved consumer search intent with real-time ML
In the dynamic landscape of commerce, Shopify merchants rely on our platform’s ability to seamlessly and reliably deliver highly relevant products to potential customers. Therefore, a rich and intuitive search experience is an essential part of our offering. Over the past year, Shopify has been integrating AI-powered search capabilities into our merchants’ storefronts. Shopify Storefront […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: AI vendors should share vulnerability research. Here’s why
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2024. Today I’m discussing new AI vulnerabilities that Google’s security teams discovered and helped fix, and why it’s important for AI vendors to share vulnerability research impacting their technology. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud […]
GCP – How Low Can You Go? An Analysis of 2023 Time-to-Exploit Trends
Written by: Casey Charrier, Robert Weiner Mandiant analyzed 138 vulnerabilities that were disclosed in 2023 and that we tracked as exploited in the wild. Consistent with past analyses, the majority (97) of these vulnerabilities were exploited as zero-days (vulnerabilities exploited before patches are made available, excluding end-of-life technologies). Forty-one vulnerabilities were exploited as n-days (vulnerabilities […]