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AWS – Amazon SES announces Vade advanced email security Add On for Mail Manager
Today, Amazon SES announces the availability of the Vade Add On for Mail Manager, a sophisticated content filter that enhances email security for both incoming and outgoing messages. This new Add On, developed in collaboration with HornetSecurity, combines heuristics, behavioral analysis, and machine learning to provide robust protection against evolving communication threats such as spam, […]

AWS – Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases supports GraphRAG now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of GraphRAG, a capability in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases that enhances Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) by incorporating graph data. GraphRAG delivers more comprehensive, relevant, and explainable responses by leveraging relationships within your data, improving how Generative AI applications retrieve and synthesize information. Since public preview, customers have leveraged the managed […]

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now available in AWS Europe (Spain) Region
We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is expanding availability to the Amazon OpenSearch Serverless to Europe (Spain) Region. 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 capacity used for data […]

AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Pools now supports FIPS 140-2 validated endpoints
Amazon WorkSpaces Pools now offers Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS) validated endpoints (FIPS endpoints) for user streaming sessions. FIPS 140-2 is a U.S. government standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive information. WorkSpaces Pools FIPS endpoints use FIPS-validated cryptographic standards, which may be required for certain sensitive information or […]

GCP – Meet Kubernetes History Inspector, a log visualization tool for Kubernetes clusters
Kubernetes, the container orchestration platform, is inherently a complex, distributed system. While it provides resilience and scalability, it can also introduce operational complexities, particularly when troubleshooting. Even with Kubernetes’ self-healing capabilities, identifying the root cause of an issue often requires deep dives into the logs of various independent components. At Google Cloud, our engineers have […]

GCP – Guide: Our top four AI Hypercomputer use cases, reference architectures and tutorials
AI Hypercomputer is a fully integrated supercomputing architecture for AI workloads – and it’s easier to use than you think. In this blog, we break down four common use cases, including reference architectures and tutorials, representing just a few of the many ways you can use AI Hypercomputer today. Short on time? Here’s a quick […]

AWS – AWS WAF adds JA4 fingerprinting and aggregation on JA3 and JA4 fingerprints for rate-based rules
AWS WAF now supports JA4 fingerprinting of incoming requests, enabling customers to allow known clients or block requests from malicious clients. Additionally, you can now use both JA4 and JA3 fingerprints as aggregation keys within WAF’s rate-based rules, allowing you to monitor and control request rates based on client fingerprints. A JA4 TLS client fingerprint […]

AWS – Announcing AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio for the VS Code IDE
AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio is now available in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code, enabling you to visually create, edit, and debug state machine workflows directly in your local development environment. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating over 14,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to build […]

AWS – Announcing MQTT enabled SiteWise Edge gateways for AWS IoT SiteWise
Today, AWS announces the general availability of MQTT enabled SiteWise Edge gateways for AWS IoT SiteWise. AWS IoT SiteWise is a managed service that makes it easy to collect, store, organize, and analyze data from industrial equipment at scale. With this launch, newly created gateways now include an MQTTv5 broker component that centralizes connectivity between […]
AWS – Amazon Q Developer announces a new CLI agent within the command line
Today, Amazon Q Developer announced an enhanced CLI agent within the Amazon Q command line interface (CLI) that allows you to have more dynamic conversations. With this update, Amazon Q Developer can now use the information in your CLI environment to help you read and write files locally, query AWS resources or create code. You […]