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GCP – Announcing partner-built AI security innovations on Google Cloud
Securing AI systems is a fundamental requirement for business continuity and customer trust, and Google Cloud is at the forefront of driving secure AI innovations and working with partners to meet the evolving needs of customers. Our secure-by-design cloud platform and built-in security solutions are continuously updated with the latest defenses, helping security-conscious organizations confidently […]
GCP – Introducing the Agentic SOC Workshops for security professionals
The security operations centers of the future will use agentic AI to enable intelligent automation of routine tasks, augment human decision-making, and streamline workflows. At Google Cloud, we want to help prepare today’s security professionals to get the most out of tomorrow’s AI agents. As we build our agentic vision, we’re also excited to invite […]
GCP – Accelerate data science with new Dataproc multi-tenant clusters
With the rapid growth of AI/ML, data science teams need a better notebook experience to meet the growing demand for and importance of their work to drive innovation. Additionally, scaling data science workloads also creates new challenges for infrastructure management. Allocating compute resources per user provides strong isolation (the technical separation of workloads, processes, and […]
AWS – AWS Managed Microsoft AD adds LDAPS and Smart Card support using AWS Private CA
AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (AWS Managed Microsoft AD) now offers certificate auto-enrollment for LDAPS and Smart Card and certificate based authentication with AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) through AWS Private CA Connector for AD. This integration enables automatic issuance, renewal, and management of certificates to AWS Managed Microsoft AD domain […]
AWS – Amazon Q in Connect now supports selecting LLMs directly in Connect Web UI
Amazon Q in Connect, a generative AI-powered assistant for customer service, now enables contact center administrators to select different Large Language Models (LLMs) directly through the Amazon Connect web UI, providing a seamless AI Agent configuration experience. This no-code approach allows administrators to choose between LLM model families when building AI Agents to optimize for […]
AWS – AWS WAF is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region
Starting today, AWS WAF is available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps you protect your web application resources against common web exploits and bots that can affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. To see the full list of regions where AWS WAF is […]
GCP – Registration now open: Our no-cost, generative AI training and certification program for veterans
Growing up in a Navy family instilled a strong sense of purpose in me. My father’s remarkable 42 years of naval service not only shaped my values, but inspired me to join the Navy myself. Today, as the leader of Google Public Sector, I’m honored to continue that tradition of service in support of our […]
GCP – BigQuery under the hood: The power of the Column Metadata index aka CMETA
While petabyte-scale data warehouses are becoming more common, getting the performance you need without escalating costs and effort remain key challenges, even in a modern cloud data warehouse. While many data warehouse platform providers continue to work on these challenges, BigQuery has already moved past petabyte-scale data warehouses to petabyte-scale tables. In fact, some BigQuery […]
AWS – AWS WAF now includes free WAF Vended Logs based on request volume
AWS WAF now includes 500 MB of CloudWatch Logs Vended Logs Ingestion for every 1 million WAF requests processed, at no additional cost. This helps customers better manage their WAF logging costs while maintaining comprehensive security visibility. WAF logs in CloudWatch provide valuable insights for security analysis, compliance, and troubleshooting. Customers can leverage CloudWatch’s advanced […]
AWS – Announcing Managed Tiered Checkpointing for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
Today, Amazon Web Service (AWS) announces the general availability of managed tiered checkpointing for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, a new capability designed to reduce model recovery time and minimize loss in training progress. As AI training scales, the likelihood of infrastructure failures increases, making efficient checkpointing critical. Traditional checkpointing methods can be slow and resource-intensive, especially […]