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GCP – Streamline the design and deployment of application infrastructure with Application Design Center, now GA
Earlier this year, we unveiled a big investment in platform and developer team productivity, with the launch of Application Design Center, helping them streamline the design and deployment of cloud application infrastructure, while ensuring applications are secure, reliable, and aligned with best practices. And today, Application Design Center is generally available. We built Application Design […]
GCP – Is your DR plan just wishful thinking? Prove your resilience with chaos engineering
When was the last time you knew — not just hoped — that your disaster recovery plan would work perfectly? For most of us, the answer is unclear. Sure, you may have a DR plan, a meticulously crafted document stored in a wiki or a shared drive, that gets dusted off for compliance audits or […]
AWS – Amazon Quick Suite integrates Quick Research with Quick Flows for report automation
Amazon Quick Suite now includes Quick Research as a step within Quick Flows. This integration enables teams to generate comprehensive research reports as part of automated, multi-step workflows, transforming research projects into reusable workflows that can be shared across their organization. Quick Suite is Amazon’s new AI-powered workspace that helps organizations get answers from their […]
GCP – Integrating MedGemma into clinical workflows just got easier!
Our team, Google Heath AI Developer Foundations, introduced MedGemma earlier this year in May and later followed up in July with a 27-billion-parameter multimodal variant plus MedGemma’s vision encoder: MedSigLIP. We’ve been humbled by the wide variety of model adaptations, research papers, and applications MedGemma has created across academia and industry! Our aim is to […]
AWS – Announcing Spatial Data Management on AWS to accelerate spatial-data insights
Today, AWS is announcing Spatial Data Management on AWS (SDMA), a solution that enables customers to store, enrich, and connect spatial data at scale. SDMA enables customers to store their multimodal spatial data representing their physical assets (3D, geospatial, behavioral, temporal data) in a secure, centralized cloud environment. SDMA serves as a collaborative hub enabling […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches WhatsApp channel for Outbound Campaigns
Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns now supports WhatsApp, expanding on the WhatsApp Business messaging capabilities that already allow customers to contact your agents. You can now engage customers through proactive, automated campaigns on their preferred messaging platform, delivering timely communications such as appointment reminders, payment notifications, order updates, and product recommendations directly through WhatsApp. Setting up […]
AWS – AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Node.js 24 on Amazon Linux 2023
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now enables customers to build and deploy Node.js 24 applications on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) platform. This latest platform support allows developers to leverage the newest features and improvements in Node.js while taking advantage of the enhanced security and performance of AL2023. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that provides the ability […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker now supports self-service migration of Notebook instances to latest platform versions
Amazon SageMaker Notebook instance now supports self-service migration, allowing you to update your notebook instance platform identifier through the UpdateNotebookInstance API. This enables you to seamlessly transition from unsupported platform identifiers (notebook-al1-v1, notebook-al2-v1, notebook-al2-v2) to supported versions (notebook-al2-v3, notebook-al2023-v1). With the new PlatformIdentifier parameter in the UpdateNotebookInstance API, you can update to newer versions of […]
AWS – SES Mail Manager is now available in 10 additional AWS Regions, 27 total
Amazon SES announces that the SES Mail Manager product is now available in 10 additional commercial AWS Regions. This expands coverage from the current 17 commercial AWS Regions where Mail Manager is launched, meaning that Mail Manager is now offered in all commercial Regions where SES offers its core Outbound service. SES Mail Manager allows […]
AWS – TwelveLabs’ Pegasus 1.2 model now in 23 new AWS regions via Global cross-region inference
Amazon Bedrock introduces Global cross-Region inference for TwelveLabs’ Pegasus 1.2, expanding model availability to 23 new regions in addition to the seven regions where the model was already available. You can now also access the model in all EU regions in Amazon Bedrock using Geographic cross-Region inference. Geographic cross-Region inference is ideal for workloads with […]