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AWS – Amazon Corretto 19 is now generally available
Amazon Corretto 19 is now generally available. This version supports the latest OpenJDK feature release and is available on Linux, Windows, and macOS. You can download Corretto 19 from our downloads page. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Improvements to Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) custom rules
Azure regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) supports operators “Any” and “GreaterThanOrEqual”, improving WAF tuning capabilities. Azure’s global WAF now supports geo-match filtering using the socket address in addition to remote address. Read More for the details.

GCP – Security Roundup – stories and launches from second quarter 2022
In the fast-moving world of security, Google Cloud continues to constantly update our products and services to help protect your data and your applications. In the second installment of this regular series, let’s dive into what’s new and cooking in Google Cloud Security. For those of you curious to read the previous installment, we got […]

AWS – AWS Elemental MediaConnect adds support for SRT caller mode
AWS Elemental MediaConnect now supports Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) caller mode for both sources and outputs in MediaConnect flows. SRT caller mode provides greater flexibility when configuring video transport workflows using MediaConnect. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning is now available through SageMaker Search
Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning allows you to find the most accurate version of your machine learning model by finding the optimal set of hyperparameter configurations for your dataset. SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning is now integrated with the SageMaker Search API, which lets you quickly find and evaluate the most relevant model tuning jobs from […]

GCP – Enabling real-time AI with Streaming Ingestion in Vertex AI
Many machine learning (ML) use cases, like fraud detection, ad targeting, and recommendation engines, require near real-time predictions. The performance of these predictions is heavily dependent on access to the most up-to-date data, with delays of even a few seconds making all the difference. But it’s difficult to set up the infrastructure needed to support […]

GCP – Built with BigQuery: Retailers drive profitable growth with SoundCommerce
As economic conditions change, retail brands’ reliance on ever-growing customer demand puts these companies at financial and even existential risk. Top-line revenue and active customer growth do not equal profitable growth. Despite multi-billion dollar valuations for some brands, especially those operating the direct-to-consumer model, the rising costs of meeting shoppers’ high expectations (i.e. free shipping, […]

GCP – Reduce operational complexity and costs with a central load balancer
We’re excited to announce the General Availability of cross-project service referencing with Internal HTTP(S) Load Balancing and Regional External HTTP(S) Load Balancing. This new capability allows organizations to configure one central load balancer and route traffic to hundreds of services distributed across multiple different projects. You can centrally manage all traffic routing rules and policies […]

Azure – General availability (update): Improved Append Capability on Immutable Storage for Blob Storage
Immutable storage for Blob Storage on containers now includes a new append capability. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Immutable storage for Azure Data Lake Storage
Immutable storage for Azure Data Lake Storage is now generally available. Immutable storage provides the capability to store data in a write once, read many (WORM) state. Read More for the details.