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GCP – Announcing new updates to Cloud Translation AI, now covering 189 languages
Your next big customer doesn’t speak your language. In fact, 40% of global consumers won’t even consider buying from websites not in their native tongue. With 51.6% of internet users speaking languages other than English, you’re potentially missing half your market. Until now, enterprises faced an impossible choice in addressing translation use cases. They had […]
GCP – Build, deploy, and promote AI agents through Google Cloud’s AI agent ecosystem
We’ve seen a sharp rise in demand from enterprises that want to use AI agents to automate complex tasks, personalize customer experiences, and increase operational efficiency. Today, we’re announcing a Google Cloud AI agent ecosystem program to help partners build and co-innovate AI agents with technical and go-to-market resources from Google Cloud. We’re also launching […]
AWS – CloudWatch RUM now supports percentile aggregations and simplified troubleshooting with web vitals metrics
CloudWatch RUM, which captures real-time data on web application performance and user interactions, helping you quickly detect and resolve issues impacting the user experience, now supports percentile aggregation of web vital metrics and simplified events based troubleshooting directly from the web vitals anomaly. Google uses the 75th percentile (p75) of a web page’s Core Web […]
AWS – Disk-optimized vector engine now available on the Amazon OpenSearch Service
Amazon OpenSearch’s vector engine can now run modern search applications at a third of the cost on OpenSearch 2.17 domains. When you configure a k-NN (vector) index for disk mode, it becomes optimized for operating in a low memory environment. With disk mode on, the index is compressed using techniques like binary quantization and search […]
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports adding Regions to existing Keyspaces
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that offers 99.999% availability. Today, Amazon Keyspaces added the capability to add Regions to existing Keyspaces. With this launch, you can convert an existing single-Region Keyspace to a multi-Region Keyspace or add a new Region to an […]
AWS – AWS Glue expands connectivity to 19 native connectors for Enterprise applications
AWS Glue announces 19 new connectors for Enterprise applications to expand its connectivity portfolio. Now, customers can use AWS Glue native connectors to ingest data from Facebook Ads, Google Ads, Google Analytics 4, Google Sheets, Hubspot, Instagram Ads, Intercom, Jira Cloud, Marketo, Oracle NetSuite, SAP OData, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, ServiceNow, […]
AWS – AWS AppSync GraphQL APIs now support data plane logging to AWS CloudTrail
Today, AWS AppSync announced support for logging GraphQL data plane operations (query, mutation, and subscription operations and connect requests to your real-time WebSocket endpoint) using AWS CloudTrail, enabling customers to have greater visibility into GraphQL API activity in their AWS account for best practices in security and operational troubleshooting. AWS AppSync GraphQL is a serverless […]
AWS – Introducing Binary Embeddings for Titan Text Embeddings model in Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Titan Text Embeddings V2 now supports Binary Embeddings. With Binary Embeddings, customers can reduce the storage cost for their Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications while maintaining similar accuracy of regular embeddings. Amazon Titan Text Embeddings model generates semantic representations of documents, paragraphs, and sentences, as 1,024 (default), 512, or 256 dimensional vector. With Binary […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports point in time (PIT) search
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless has added support for Point in Time (PIT) search, enabling you to run multiple queries against a dataset fixed at a specific moment. This feature allows you to maintain consistent search results even as your data continues to change, making it particularly useful for applications that require deep pagination or need to […]
AWS – Amazon ECS now allows you to configure software version consistency
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now allows you to configure software version consistency for specific containers within your Amazon ECS services. By default, Amazon ECS resolves container image tags to the image digest (SHA256 hash of the image manifest) when you create a new Amazon ECS service or deploy an update to the service. […]