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AWS – Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3 announces price reduction
Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for Amazon S3 provides a fully-managed offering to scan new object uploads to S3 bucket for malware. Starting February 1, 2025, we are lowering the price for the data scanned dimension by 85%. Over the past few months we have made improvements to our scanning infrastructure and data processing efficiencies, enabling […]
AWS – AWS AppSync releases CDK L2 constructs to simplify creating WebSocket APIs
AWS AppSync Events allows developers to create serverless WebSocket APIs that can broadcast real-time data to millions of subscribers without managing infrastructure or connection state. Developers simply create their API, and publish events without having the worry about scale and handling fan-out. Today, AWS AppSync announces the release of AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) L2 […]
AWS – AWS Verified Access launches Zero Trust access to resources over non-HTTP(S) protocols
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Verified Access’ support for secure access to resources that connect over protocols such as TCP, SSH, and RDP. With this launch, you can use Verified Access to provide secure VPN-less access to all your corporate applications and resources using AWS zero trust principles. This feature eliminates the […]
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces is now available in Africa (Cape Town) Region
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service, is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region. With Amazon Keyspaces, you can run your Cassandra workloads on AWS using the same Cassandra application code and developer tools that you use today. The service is completely serverless, eliminating the […]
GCP – Announcing public beta of Gen AI Toolbox for Databases
Today, we are thrilled to announce the public beta launch of Gen AI Toolbox for Databases in partnership with LangChain, the leading orchestration framework for developers building large language model (LLM) applications. Gen AI Toolbox for Databases (Toolbox) is an open-source server that empowers application developers to connect production-grade, agent-based generative AI (gen AI) applications […]
GCP – Rightsize your Memorystore for Redis Clusters with open-source Autoscaler
One of the most compelling aspects of cloud computing is being able to automatically scale resources up, but almost as importantly, to scale them back down to manage costs and performance. This is standard practice with virtual machines, for instance Compute Engine Managed Instance Groups, but because of their inherent complexity, less so with stateful […]
GCP – Using capa Rules for Android Malware Detection
Mobile devices have become the go-to for daily tasks like online banking, healthcare management, and personal photo storage, making them prime targets for malicious actors seeking to exploit valuable information. Bad actors often turn to publishing and distributing malware via apps as a lucrative channel for generating illegal and/or unethical profits. Android takes a multi-layered […]
GCP – Empowering women with cloud and AI skills: Register for the Google Launchpad for Women series
Last year, we offered our first ever “Google Launchpad for Women” series to empower women within our customer ecosystem to grow their cloud and AI skills. The response from our customers has been tremendous: more than 11,000 women across a breadth of roles – sales, leadership, marketing, finance, and more have completed previous editions of […]
AWS – Amazon ECS Service Connect is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) launches its networking capability called ECS Service Connect in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. Amazon ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service that makes it easier for you to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications. With ECS Service Connect, customers can easily configure service […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker AI is now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia)
Starting today, you can build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models in Asia Pacific (Malaysia). Amazon SageMaker AI is a fully managed platform that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models quickly. SageMaker AI removes the heavy lifting from each step of the […]