Category Archives: Blog

AI, Deepfakes, and Digital Trust: A Conversation with Nicos Vekiarides

In an insightful interview with CloudTweaks, Nicos Vekiarides, CEO and Co-founder of Attestiv, sheds light on the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and the escalating challenges posed by deepfake technology. With a background rich in enterprise technology and a keen expertise in digital security, Vekiarides is at the helm of Attestiv, a company that […]

Stop the CNAME chain struggle: Simplified management with Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall

Starting today, you can configure your DNS Firewall to automatically trust all domains in a resolution chain (such as aCNAME, DNAME, or Alias chain). Let’s walk through this in nontechnical terms for those unfamiliar with DNS. Why use DNS Firewall?DNS Firewall provides protection for outbound DNS requests from your private network in the cloud (Amazon […]

How generative AI will revolutionize supply chain 

Unlocking the full potential of supply chain management has long been a goal for businesses that seek efficiency, resilience and sustainability. In the age of digital transformation, the integration of advanced technologies like generative artificial intelligence brings a new era of innovation and optimization. AI tools help users address queries and resolve alerts by using […]

Frank Kim on Zero-Trust Architecture: Essential for Cloud Security

In an interview with CloudTweaks, Frank Kim, a SANS Fellow and cloud security expert, discusses the critical aspects of safeguarding cloud environments. Frank emphasizes the adoption of zero-trust architectures as essential for protecting high-value data and preventing attackers from moving laterally within network systems. He explains the shared responsibility model, highlighting that cloud service providers […]

Add your Ruby gems to AWS CodeArtifact

Ruby developers can now use AWS CodeArtifact to securely store and retrieve their gems. CodeArtifact integrates with standard developer tools like gem and bundler. Applications often use numerous packages to speed up development by providing reusable code for common tasks like network access, cryptography, or data manipulation. Developers also embed SDKs–such as the AWS SDKs–to […]

Amazon Titan Text Embeddings V2 now available in Amazon Bedrock, optimized for improving RAG

The Amazon Titan family of models, available exclusively in Amazon Bedrock, is built on top of 25 years of Amazon expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) advancements. Amazon Titan foundation models (FMs) offer a comprehensive suite of pre-trained image, multimodal, and text models accessible through a fully managed API. Trained on extensive […]

Amazon Q Business, now generally available, helps boost workforce productivity with generative AI

At AWS re:Invent 2023, we previewed Amazon Q Business, a generative artificial intelligence (generative AI)–powered assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems. With Amazon Q Business, you can deploy a secure, private, generative AI assistant that empowers your organization’s users […]

Amazon Q Developer, now generally available, includes previews of new capabilities to reimagine developer experience

When Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched Amazon Q Developer as a preview last year, it changed my experience of interacting with AWS services and, at the same time, maximizing the potential of AWS services on a daily basis. Trained on 17 years of AWS knowledge and experience, this generative artificial intelligence (generative AI)–powered assistant helps […]

Elevating Endpoint Security: Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Enhances Cybersecurity

The world’s businesses continue to face an ever-growing array of cyber threats that constantly test their security measures, processes, defenses, and best practices. As technology advances to combat and protect such approaches, so do the tactics and technologies used by malicious actors to instigate attack, making it imperative for organizations to safeguard their digital assets […]

Run scalable, enterprise-grade generative AI workloads with Cohere Command R & R+, now available in Amazon Bedrock

In November 2023, we made two new Cohere models available in Amazon Bedrock (Cohere Command Light and Cohere Embed English). Today, we’re announcing the addition of two more Cohere models in Amazon Bedrock; Cohere Command R and Command R+. Organizations need generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) models to securely interact with information stored in their […]