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AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) adds Multi-Region support for User Defined Types (UDTs)
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 supports User Defined Types (UDTs) in Multi-Region. This enhancement allows you to use UDTs consistently across multiple AWS Regions, enabling global applications to maintain consistent data schemas. With Multi-Region UDT […]
AWS – AWS announces new upgrades to the Amazon Q Business Slack and Teams Integrations
Today, AWS announced upgrades to the Amazon Q Business Slack and Teams integrations. The upgrades include the ability to create multiple Amazon Q Business integrations within a Slack workspace or Teams organization, free text feedback support, improved response and source formatting, and the support for larger file attachments with user queries. With the support for […]
AWS – AWS DMS Schema Conversion now supports conversions from IBM Db2 for z/OS to Amazon RDS for Db2
AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) Schema Conversion is a fully managed feature of DMS that automatically assesses and converts database schemas to formats compatible with AWS target database services. Today, we are excited to announce that Schema Conversion now supports conversions from IBM Db2 for z/OS to Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Db2. Using […]
AWS – Announcing Terraform support for AWS Parallel Computing Service
Today, we are announcing Terraform support for AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS). Customers can now use Terraform to create and manage their PCS clusters. PCS makes it easier to run and scale high performance computing (HPC) workloads and build scientific and engineering models on AWS using Slurm. PCS already supports managing your HPC environments through […]
AWS – Amazon Corretto 24 is now generally available
Corretto 24 is now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Corretto 24 is an OpenJDK 24 Feature Release, which will be supported through October, 2025. OpenJDK 24 introduces enhanced performance with two new experimental features: the Generational Shenandoah garbage collector, designed to improve sustainable throughput, load-spike resilience, and […]
AWS – Amplify Swift launches Shared Keychain support
Amplify Swift now supports sharing authentication state across multiple apps by leveraging keychain access groups. This new feature allows developers to manage a single authentication session across all Swift-based applications and extensions within the same access group. Developers can now configure Amplify to store authentication information in a shared keychain, with built-in support for migrating […]
GCP – Nuro drives autonomous innovation with AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
Editor’s note: Nuro, a robotics company that develops technology for self-driving vehicles, needed a data platform that could handle complex data processes and support continuous AI model improvement. By migrating to AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Nuro gained the scalability, high performance, and advanced query capabilities needed to power AI-driven insights across millions of data points while […]
GCP – Build gen AI agents using Google Cloud databases
As enterprises build generative AI agents to strengthen their security posture or improve their customer experience, they need access to real-time data. Because most business critical and real-time data is stored and processed in databases, you need ways to perform agentic orchestration in dynamic ways. In this post, we’ll define a new tech stack composed […]
GCP – Speed up checkpoint loading time at scale using Orbax on JAX
Imagine training a new AI / ML model like Gemma 3 or Llama 3.3 across hundreds of powerful accelerators like TPUs or GPUs to achieve a scientific breakthrough. You might have a team of powerful computers working in sync, constantly learning and refining. But every so often, they need to save their progress — a […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens now enables you to capture agent acknowledgements of performance evaluations
You can now capture and review agent acknowledgements of performance evaluations within Contact Lens, ensuring that agents have reviewed evaluation feedback and understand performance expectations. Today, agents receive automated email notifications or tasks to review their performance evaluations. With this launch, agents can acknowledge their review of performance evaluations within the Connect UI, and add […]