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GCP – Announcing curated detections in Chronicle SecOps Suite
A critical component of any security operations team’s job is to deliver high-fidelity detections of potential threats across the breadth of adversary tactics. But increasingly sophisticated threat actors, an expanding attack surface, and an ever-present cybersecurity talent shortage make this task more challenging than ever. Google keeps more people safe online than anyone else. Individuals, […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports the testing of machine learning workflows in your local environment
SageMaker Pipelines is a tool that helps you build machine learning pipelines that take advantage of direct SageMaker integration. SageMaker Pipelines now supports creating and testing pipelines in your local machine (e.g. your computer). With this launch, you can test your Sagemaker Pipelines scripts and parameters compatibility locally before running them in on SageMaker in […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are now available in US East (Ohio), South America (Sao Paulo) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 12TB of memory (u-12tb1.112xlarge) are available in the US East (Ohio) region. Additionally, high memory instances with 6TB of memory (u-6tb1.56xlarge, u-6tb1.112xlarge) are now available in the South America (Sao Paulo) region and instances with 3TB of memory (u-3tb1.56xlarge) are now available in the South America (Sao Paulo) […]

GCP – About the Google Cloud blog – Test
The mission of the Google Cloud blog is to be your definitive, trusted source for news, guidance, and perspectives from Google on cloud computing. This site unifies existing blogs covering a variety of Google Cloud products and services, including Google Cloud Platform, Workspace, Google Maps Platform, and Chrome Enterprise. We hope that by bringing these […]

Azure – General availability: Private endpoint user-defined routes support
Private endpoint user-defined routes (UDR) support is now generally available in most public regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Interactive Video Service basic channels now support HD and Full HD inputs
You can now use an Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) basic channel for HD (720p) and Full HD (1080p) quality streams, in addition to SD (480p). The expanded functionality is designed to enable streamers and viewers globally to enjoy higher video quality when using a basic channel. A basic channel will deliver only the […]

AWS – Amazon MSK Serverless is now integrated with AWS CloudFormation and Terraform
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka Serverless (Amazon MSK Serverless) is now integrated with AWS CloudFormation and HashiCorp Terraform, which allows customers to describe and provision Amazon MSK Serverless clusters using code. These services make it easy to provision and configure Amazon MSK Serverless clusters in a repeatable, automated, and secure manner. Read More for […]

AWS – AWS Glue Python Shell jobs now offer Python 3.9 and additional pre-loaded libraries
AWS Glue has upgraded its serverless Python Shell jobs to add Python 3.9 support and an updated bundle of pre-loaded libraries. These jobs allow you to write complex data integration and analytics jobs in pure Python. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift new regions
Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now available in West Central US, Australia Central, and Sweden Central. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels now supports autoscaling of inference units
Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels is an automated machine learning (AutoML) service that allows customers to build custom computer vision models to detect objects and scenes specific to their business without in-depth machine learning expertise. Starting today, Custom Labels can automatically scale inference units of a trained model based on customer workload. This reduces model inference […]