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Amazon Titan Image Generator and watermark detection API are now available in Amazon Bedrock

During AWS re:Invent 2023, we announced the preview of Amazon Titan Image Generator, a generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) foundation model (FM) that you can use to quickly create and refine realistic, studio-quality images using English natural language prompts. I’m happy to share that Amazon Titan Image Generator is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock, […]

Pioneering Cybersecurity Education: An Interview with Cal Poly’s CIO Bill Britton

Welcome to CloudTweaks, where today we’re diving into the evolving world of cybersecurity education with William J. “Bill” Britton. Bill serves as the Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer at Cal Poly, as well as the Director of the California Cybersecurity Institute. With a career that spans over two decades in various […]

Unify DNS management using Amazon Route 53 Profiles with multiple VPCs and AWS accounts

If you are managing lots of accounts and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) resources, sharing and then associating many DNS resources to each VPC can present a significant burden. You often hit limits around sharing and association, and you may have gone as far as building your own orchestration layers to propagate DNS configuration […]

AWS Weekly Roundup: Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus in Amazon Bedrock, Meta Llama 3 in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, and more (April 22, 2024)

AWS Summits continue to rock the world, with events taking place in various locations around the globe. AWS Summit London (April 24) is the last one in April, and there are nine more in May, including AWS Summit Berlin (May 15–16), AWS Summit Los Angeles (May 22), and AWS Summit Dubai (May 29). Join us […]

Deployable architecture on IBM Cloud: Simplifying system deployment

Deployable architecture (DA) refers to a specific design pattern or approach that allows an application or system to be easily deployed and managed across various environments. A deployable architecture involves components, modules and dependencies in a way that allows for seamless deployment and makes it easy for developers and operations teams to quickly deploy new […]

Utilising ITIL Adoption to Effectively Transition from Legacy Systems to Modern IT Infrastructure

In my role as a service management consultant, I’m continuously witnessing organisations attempting to maintain efficient service delivery within the constraints of outdated legacy systems. Legacy systems can slow down processes and the teams that use them, they can function sub-optimally, and potentially become a hindrance and cause a loss of time and productivity, making […]

The journey to a mature asset management system

This blog series discusses the complex tasks energy utility companies face as they shift to holistic grid asset management to manage through the energy transition. Earlier posts in this series addressed the challenges of the energy transition with holistic grid asset management, the integrated asset management platform and data exchange, and merging traditional top-down and […]

How AI Enhances Cybersecurity: Expert Insights from Khurram Mir of Kualitatem

Khurram Mir, the Chief Marketing Officer at Kualitatem, brings a profound depth of knowledge and experience to the forefront of cybersecurity and software quality assurance. With a solid educational foundation, having earned a bachelor’s degree in computer sciences followed by an MBA, Khurram has crafted a career that seamlessly bridges the technical and strategic domains […]

Getting ready for artificial general intelligence with examples

Imagine a world where machines aren’t confined to pre-programmed tasks but operate with human-like autonomy and competence. A world where computer minds pilot self-driving cars, delve into complex scientific research, provide personalized customer service and even explore the unknown. This is the potential of artificial general intelligence (AGI), a hypothetical technology that may be poised […]

Probable Root Cause: Accelerating incident remediation with causal AI 

It has been proven time and time again that a business application’s outages are very costly. The estimated cost of an average downtime can run USD 50,000 to 500,000 per hour, and more as businesses are actively moving to digitization. The complexity of applications is growing as well, so Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) require hours—and […]