
Google Colab introduces AI coding features with Codey
Updates related to Amazon Omics, Azure Firewall, Azure Backup, Amazon SageMaker and more
App Building
Google Colab introduces AI coding features with Codey
- Features include code completions, natural language to code generation, and a code-assisting chatbot.
- Codey models built on PaLM 2
- Eligible Colab users in US to have access for now UPDATE
Amazon Omics integrates with Amazon EventBridge
Enables customers to incorporate Omics published events into their event-driven architecture, facilitating improved insights from genomic data UPDATE
Career
Google introduces generative AI focused training content
- Generative AI Learning Path includes courses such as Introduction to generative AI, Large Language Models, Attention Mechanism, Transformer Models, Image Generation
- Other AI/ML training options include courses on TensorFlow, MLOps, language processing, machine learning engineering, and certification exams. UPDATE
Security
Policy analytics simplifies Azure Firewall rule optimization
Provides visibility into firewall traffic, aiding IT teams in optimizing Azure Firewall rules without disrupting applications and causing downtime. UPDATE
Amazon Detective integrates with more AWS services
- Provides root cause analysis from eight more AWS services
- New data sources include AWS Config, Amazon Inspector, AWS IoT Device Defender
- Enable AWS Security Findings as a data source in Detective for automatic ingestion of findings from integrated services UPDATE
AI/ML
Amazon SageMaker empowers geospatial ML
- Access geospatial data sources, process and enrich datasets, and select pretrained ML models.
- Analyze predictions on interactive maps, share and collaborate on results within SageMaker UPDATE
Trends
Gartner trends for cloud, data center infrastructure
- Cloud teams to optimize, refactor cloud infrastructure for efficiency and resilience
- Data center teams to adopt cloud principles on-premises and embrace as-a-service models.
- Skills growth becomes the top priority in infrastructure modernization initiatives READ MORE
Provisioning + Runtime
Azure Container Storage simplifies persistent volumes for containers
- Supports block storage volumes for stateful container applications on Kubernetes
- Optimized for performance, resilience, and cost-efficiency on AKS
- Accelerates deployment with fast attach/detach, reduces pod failover time
- Reduces TCO for container storage. UPDATE
In preview: Azure Backup adds support for confidential VM backup
- Backup of confidential VMs with confidential OS disk encryption
- Enhanced policy required for backup; item-level and cross-region restore not supported.
- Restore also supported in accidental loss of customer managed key or disk encryption set. UPDATE
AWS Cloud Formation enables Neptune Serverless cluster management
Supports creation, management, and version upgrades of Neptune Serverless clusters, providing an easier way to work with highly connected datasets. UPDATE
Google Cloud customization of idle VM recommendations
Active Assist now allows users to configure the observation period for idle VM recommendations, providing flexibility to adjust settings based on project needs and cost savings optimization. UPDATE
Management Tools
Azure Workbook for reliability and resiliency analysis
New workbook that assesses configuration and offers best practices to optimize workloads, prepare for events, and mitigate risks in case of outages. UPDATE
Observability
Azure Monitor for SAP solutions streamlines monitoring
- End-to-end technical monitoring for SAP applications on Azure
- Collects telemetry data from SAP NetWeaver, databases, and operating systems
- Supports transport layer security, CPU/memory/disk I/O performance alerts READ MORE
NPW Insights this week
- Survey shows slowing developer velocity
- Spotify fleet management deep dive