Earlier this week the United States Senate unveiled its long anticipated Artificial Intelligence (AI) Roadmap, marking a significant step toward shaping the future of AI policy and regulation in the country. Among other things, this yearlong effort is most notable for its bipartisanship and multi-stakeholder approach. Spearheaded by the Bipartisan Senate AI Working Group, the Roadmap, while not perfect, reflects a concerted effort to address the myriad opportunities and challenges presented by AI technologies. The release and timing of any features or functionality described in this post remai ..read more

The pressure is on for government agencies to quickly elevate customer experiences, especially digitally. Customers, in this context, include anyone looking for information, support, or services from federal, state, or local government agencies.   In the US, for example, the federal government is making customer experience a priority for agencies providing high-impact public services. The goal is to “deliver a simple, seamless, and secure customer experience, on par with or better than leading consumer experiences.” Through frameworks such as the one outlined in M-23-22 released this past ..read more

Have you been wondering if you can bring your own key (BYOK) to encrypt your data and snapshots in Elastic Cloud? If yes, you’ll enjoy this blog post series. As organizations increasingly rely on cloud software to streamline processes and enhance collaboration, data security becomes a non-negotiable requirement. Encryption at rest is a cornerstone of data security strategies, providing a robust layer of protection for data stored within cloud-based environments. In this series, we’ll explore the significance, benefits, and limitations of encryption at rest. We will also see how you can use cus ..read more

What does the Japanese language and coding have in common? Senior Site Reliability Engineer Sammie Waldie says the two aren’t that different. “I really fell in love with the unwritten rules and hidden things that are in spoken languages that we don’t think about,” she says. “It’s the same as how we work with computers. A lot of the challenges of site reliability are learning what things we’re abstracting away and learning how to fix something. ”While Sammie has a degree in Japanese language and literature, she’s a self-taught programmer. She’s been playing with computers since she can rememb ..read more

Today we are announcing the availability of Elasticsearch Serverless in technical preview, which features: A developer-focused experience that simplifies creating AI-driven search with intuitive onboarding and relevant code examples, all as a fully managed service Cloud native, serverless architecture separating compute from data with the Search AI Lake Elasticsearch project creation in just a few clicks to try out new AI search features Early access customers have used this new self-service option for a range of use cases — from internal analytics to building generative AI application ..read more

From its beginning, the Elastic detection-rules repo not only contained Elastic’s prebuilt detection rules, but also additional tooling for detection rule management — like a suite of tests, CLI commands, and automation scripts used by the Elastic Threat Research and Detection Engineering (TRaDE) team. Elastic’s TRaDE team has been following Detections as Code (DaC) practices for years, supporting our internal development and release processes for Elastic prebuilt detection and endpoint rules. Customers historically have predominantly used the detection-rules CLI, which provided a Kibana API w ..read more

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Hello from the Elastic DevRel team! Welcome to our latest newsletter blog edition, where you'll find information on upcoming events in your region, catch up on content, and stay up to date with product updates. In this edition, we dive into the latest enhancements and optimizations that boost vector search performance in Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene, making it up to 8x faster and 32x more efficient. We also explore the new Elastic Cloud Vector Search optimized hardware profile that is now available for Elastic Cloud users on GCP. What’s new? Elasticsearch and Lucene are getting up to 8x fas ..read more

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As an SRE, analyzing applications is more complex than ever. Not only do you have to ensure the application is running optimally to ensure great customer experiences, but you must also understand the inner workings in some cases to help troubleshoot. Analyzing issues in a production-based service is a team sport. It takes the SRE, DevOps, development, and support to get to the root cause and potentially remediate. If it's impacting, then it's even worse because there is a race against time. Regardless of the situation, there is a ton of information that needs to be consumed and processed. This ..read more