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AWS – Announcing cost allocation using users’ attributes
AWS announces a new cost allocation feature that uses existing workforce user attributes like cost center, division, organization, and department to track and analyze AWS application usage and cost. This new capability enables customers to allocate per-user monthly subscription and on-demand fees of AWS applications, such as Amazon Q Business, Amazon Q Developer, and Amazon […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now supports multiple choice and date questions in evaluation forms
Amazon Connect provides two new evaluation question types to capture deeper insights on human and AI agent performance. Managers can now create questions that allow multiple answer selections, such as the products that the customer was interested in during a sales conversation. Additionally, managers can capture dates for customer and agent actions within evaluation forms. […]
GCP – Connect your enterprise data to Google’s new Antigravity IDE
The AI state of the art is shifting rapidly from simple chat interfaces to autonomous agents capable of planning, executing, and refining complex workflows. In this new landscape, the ability to ground these intelligent agents in your enterprise data is key to unlocking true business value. Google Cloud is at the forefront of this shift, […]
AWS – AWS Billing and Cost Management now supports PDF export and CSV data download for Dashboards
Today, AWS announces PDF export and CSV data download capabilities for AWS Billing and Cost Management Dashboards. These new features enable you to export your customized dashboards as PDF files for offline analysis and sharing, and download individual widget data in CSV format for detailed examination in spreadsheet applications. With these capabilities, you now have […]
AWS – Amazon EKS introduces enhanced network security policies
Today, we’re announcing enhanced network policy capabilities in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), allowing customers to improve the network security posture for their Kubernetes workloads and their integrations with cluster-external destinations. This enhancement builds on network segmentation features previously supported in EKS. Now you can centrally enforce network access filters across the entire cluster, as […]
GCP – Master Generative AI Evaluation: From Single Prompts to Complex Agents
Building Generative AI applications has become accessible to everyone, but moving those applications from a prototype to a production-ready system requires one critical step: Evaluation. How do you know if your LLM is safe? How do you ensure your RAG system isn’t hallucinating? How do you test an agent that generates SQL queries on the […]
GCP – Building Connected Agents with MCP and A2A
To build a production-ready agentic system, where intelligent agents can freely collaborate and act, we need standards and shared protocols for how agents talk to tools and how they talk to each other. In the Agent Production Patterns module in the Production-Ready AI with Google Cloud Learning Path, we focus on interoperability, exploring the standard […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M7a instances are now available in the Europe (London) Region
Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M7a instances are now available in AWS Europe (London) Region. M7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code-named Genoa) with a maximum frequency of 3.7 GHz, deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to M6a instances. With this additional region, M7a instances are available in the following […]
AWS – ACM now supports automated certificate management for Kubernetes
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now automates certificate provisioning and distribution for Kubernetes workloads through AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK). Previously, ACM automated certificate management for AWS-integrated services like Application Load Balancers and CloudFront. However, using ACM certificates with applications terminating TLS in Kubernetes required manual steps: exporting certificates and private keys via API, creating Kubernetes […]
GCP – Boost your agency’s efficiency: Take Google Workspace for a test drive
Public sector agencies are under constant pressure to do more with less. With shrinking budgets and expanding responsibilities, the need for efficient, secure, and modern tools has never been greater. Outdated systems can hinder collaboration, create security risks, and impact employee morale, making it difficult to deliver the services constituents require. Modernizing mission delivery Google […]