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AWS – Amazon Lightsail now supports IPv6 connectivity over AWS PrivateLink
Amazon Lightsail now supports IPv6-only and dual-stack PrivateLink interface VPC endpoints. AWS PrivateLink is a highly available, scalable service that allows you to privately connect your VPC to services and resources as if they were in your VPC. Previously, Lightsail supported private connectivity over PrivateLink using IPv4-only VPC endpoints. With today’s launch, customers can use […]

AWS – AWS Entity Resolution is now available in 2 additional regions
Starting today, AWS Entity Resolution is now available in AWS Canada (Central) and Africa (Cape Town) Regions. With AWS Entity Resolution, organizations can match and link related customer, product, business, or healthcare records stored across multiple applications, channels, and data stores. You can get started in minutes using matching workflows that are flexible, scalable, and […]

AWS – AWS Config rules now available in additional AWS Regions
Additional AWS Config rules are now available in 17 AWS Regions. AWS Config rules help you automatically evaluate your AWS resource configurations for desired settings, enabling you to assess, audit, and evaluate configurations of your AWS resources. When a resource violates a rule, an AWS Config rule evaluates it as non-compliant and can send you […]

AWS – AWS CodePipeline now supports deploying to AWS Lambda with traffic shifting
AWS CodePipeline now offers a new Lambda deploy action that simplifies application deployment to AWS Lambda. This feature enables seamless publishing of Lambda function revisions and supports multiple traffic-shifting strategies for safer releases. For production workloads, you can now deploy software updates with confidence using either linear or canary deployment patterns. The new action integrates […]

AWS – AWS CodePipeline now supports Deploy Spec file in EC2 deploy action
AWS CodePipeline now supports Deploy Spec file configurations in the EC2 Deploy action, enabling you to specify deployment parameters directly in your source repository. You can now include either a Deploy Spec file name or deploy configurations in your EC2 Deploy action. The action accepts Deploy Spec files in YAML format and maintains compatibility with […]

AWS – Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now supports (IPv6) in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses for their new and existing endpoints. Customers moving to IPv6 can simplify their networks stack by running their Data Lifecycle Manager dual-stack endpoints on a network supporting both IPv4 and IPv6, depending on the protocol used by their […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker – move project across domain units
Today, Amazon SageMaker and Amazon DataZone announced a new data governance capability that enables customers to move a project from one domain unit to another. Domain units enable customers to create business unit/team level organization and manage authorization policies per their business needs. Customers can now take a project mapped to a domain unit and […]

AWS – Amazon Cognito now supports OIDC prompt parameter
Amazon Cognito announces support for the OpenID Connect (OIDC) prompt parameter in Cognito Managed Login. Managed Login provides a fully-managed, hosted sign-in and sign-up experience that customers can personalize to align with their company or application branding. This new capability enables customers to control authentication flows more precisely by supporting two commonly requested prompt values: […]

GCP – Getting AI to write good SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained
Organizations depend on fast and accurate data-driven insights to make decisions, and SQL is at the core of how they access that data. With Gemini, Google can generate SQL directly from natural language — a.k.a. text-to-SQL. This capability increases developer and analysts’ productivity and empowers non-technical users to interact directly with the data they need. […]
GCP – AI Hypercomputer developer experience enhancements from Q1 25: build faster, scale bigger
Building cutting-edge AI models is exciting, whether you’re iterating in your notebook or orchestrating large clusters. However, scaling up training can present significant challenges, including navigating complex infrastructure, configuring software and dependencies across numerous instances, and pinpointing performance bottlenecks. At Google Cloud, we’re focused on making AI training easier, whatever your scale. We’re continuously evolving […]