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GCP – Making the AI PC accessible to all with Chromebook Plus
The next wave of Google AI for businesses As business leaders look to enhance worker productivity, IT is tasked with evaluating how AI-powered devices can provide their businesses with a competitive advantage. While leaders believe in the promise of AI PCs, they may not be able to justify the prohibitive investment required to get started. […]
GCP – capa Explorer Web: A Web-Based Tool for Program Capability Analysis
Written by: Soufiane Fariss, Willi Ballenthin, Mike Hunhoff, Genwei Jiang, Tina Johnson, Moritz Raabe capa, developed by Mandiant’s FLARE team, is a reverse engineering tool that automates the identification of program capabilities. In this blog post we introduce capa Explorer Web, a browser-based tool to display the capabilities found by capa. The capa Explorer Web […]
AWS – AWS Announces AWS re:Post Agent, a generative AI-powered virtual assistant
AWS re:Post launches re:Post Agent, a generative AI-powered assistant that’s designed to enhance customer interactions by offering intelligent and near real-time responses on re:Post. re:Post Agent provides the first response to questions in the re:Post community. Cloud developers can now get general technical guidance faster to successfully build and operate their cloud workloads. With re:Post […]
AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 increases application settings storage limit
Amazon AppStream 2.0 has expanded the default size limit for application settings persistence from 1GB to 5GB. This increase allows end users to store more application data and settings with no manual intervention and without impacting the performance or session setup time. Application settings persistence allows users’ customizations and configurations to persist across sessions. When […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge announces new event delivery latency metric for Event Buses
Amazon EventBridge Event Bus now provides an end-to-end event delivery latency metric in Amazon CloudWatch that tracks the duration between event ingestion and successful delivery to the targets on your Event Bus. This new IngestionToInvocationSuccessLatency allows you to now detect and respond to event processing delays caused by under-performing, under-scaled, or unresponsive targets. Amazon EventBridge […]
AWS – Launch Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor from Amazon Network Load Balancer console
By adding your Network Load Balancer (NLB) to a monitor, you can gain improved visibility into your application’s internet performance and availability using Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor. You can now create or associate a monitor for an NLB directly when you create an NLB in the AWS Management console. You can create a monitor for […]
AWS – Amazon Q in QuickSight now generates data stories that are personalized to users
Amazon Q in QuickSight announces personalization in data stories. A capability of Amazon Q in QuickSight, data stories helps users generate visually compelling documents and presentations that provide insights, highlight key findings, and recommend actionable next steps. With the addition of personalization to data stories, the generated narratives are tailored to the user and leverage […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift announces mTLS support for Amazon MSK
Amazon Redshift streaming ingestion already supports Amazon IAM authentication and with this announcement, we are now extending authentication methods with the addition of mutual transport layer security (mTLS) authentication between Amazon Redshift provisioned cluster or serverless workgroup and Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) cluster or serverless. mTLS is an industry standard for authentication […]
AWS – Amazon SES adds HTTPS open tracking for custom domains
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now supports HTTPS for tracking open and click events when using custom domains. Using HTTPS helps meet security compliance requirements and reduces the chances of email delivery issues with mailbox providers that reject non-secure links. The new feature provides the flexibility to configure HTTPS as mandatory for both open and […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 16.4, 15.8, 14.13, 13.16, and 12.20
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL versions 16.4, 15.8, 14.13, 13.16, and 12.20. These releases contain product improvements and bug fixes made by the PostgreSQL community, along with Aurora-specific security and feature improvements. These releases also contain new Babelfish’s features and improvements. As a reminder, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 12 end of standard support is […]