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AWS – Amazon Bedrock Data Automation launches instruction optimization for your document blueprints
Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) now supports blueprint instruction optimization, enabling you to improve the accuracy of your custom field extraction using just a few example document assets with ground truth labels. BDA automates the generation of insights from unstructured multimodal content such as documents, images, audio, and videos for your GenAI-powered applications. Blueprint instruction […]
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Microsoft Windows Server 2025
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now offers images powered by Microsoft Windows Server 2025, enabling customers to launch streaming instances with the latest features and enhancements from Microsoft’s newest server operating system. This update ensures your application streaming environment benefits from improved security, performance, and modern capabilities. With Windows Server 2025 support, you can deliver the Microsoft […]
GCP – Why Stochastic Rounding is Essential for Modern Generative AI
In computing’s early days of the 1940s, mathematicians discovered a flawed assumption about the behavior of round-off errors. Instead of canceling out, fixed-point arithmetic accumulated errors, compromising the accuracy of calculations. A few years later, “random round-off” was proposed, which would round up or down based on a random probability proportional to the remainder. In […]
GCP – From Code to Cloud: Three Labs for Deploying Your AI Agent
You’ve built a powerful AI agent. It works on your local machine, it’s intelligent, and it’s ready to meet the world. Now, how do you take this agent from a script on your laptop to a secure, scalable, and reliable application in production? On Google Cloud, there are multiple paths to deployment, each offering a […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 now supports Availability Zone ID across its APIs
Amazon EC2 now supports Availability Zone ID (AZ ID) parameter, enabling you to create and manage resources such as instances, volumes, and subnets using consistent zone identifiers. AZ IDs are consistent and static identifiers that represent the same physical location across all AWS accounts, helping you optimize resource placement. Prior to this launch, you had […]
GCP – How Google Public Sector and Google DeepMind can power the Genesis Mission and a new era of scientific discovery
The White House’s Genesis Mission has set a bold ambition for our nation: to double our scientific productivity within the decade and harness artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate the pace of discovery. This requires a profound transformation in our national scientific enterprise, one that seamlessly integrates high-performance computing, world-class experimental facilities, and AI. The challenge […]
GCP – Getting AI to write good SQL: Optimizing the AlloyDB AI natural language API for your use case
Today’s AI capabilities provide a great opportunity to enable natural language (NL) interactions with your enterprise data through applications using text and voice. In fact, in the world of agentic applications, natural language is rapidly becoming the interaction standard. That means agents need to be able to issue natural language questions to a database and […]
GCP – Announcing advanced governance capabilities for Vertex AI Agent Builder
At Google Cloud, we continue to make critical investments to Vertex AI Agent Builder, our comprehensive and open platform, enabling you to build faster, scale efficiently, and govern with enterprise-grade security. Today, with the integration of the Cloud API Registry, we’re excited to bring enhanced tool governance capabilities to Vertex AI Agent Builder. With this […]
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Applications announces Elastic fleets powered by Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now offers support for Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS on Elastic fleets, enabling Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and central IT organizations to stream Ubuntu desktop applications to users while leveraging the flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of the AWS Cloud. Amazon WorkSpaces Applications is a fully managed, secure desktops and applications streaming service that provides users […]
AWS – Amazon ECS Managed Instances now supports Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
Amazon ECS Managed Instances now supports Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, extending the range of capabilities available with AWS-managed infrastructure. With this launch, you can leverage spare EC2 capacity at up to 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices for fault-tolerant workloads, while AWS handles infrastructure management. ECS Managed Instances is a fully managed compute option designed […]