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AWS – AWS Direct Connect announces new location in Auckland, New Zealand
Today, as part of the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Spark Digital Mayoral Drive Exchange (MDR) data center near Auckland, New Zealand. You can now establish private, direct network access to all public AWS Regions (except those in […]
GCP – The Agent Development Kit Hackathon with Google Cloud: Announcing the winners and highlights
The Agent Development Kit (ADK) Hackathon is officially wrapped. The hackathon wrapped up with over 10,400 participants from 62 countries, resulting in 477 submitted projects and over 1,500 agents built! Building on the excitement from our initial announcement, the hackathon proved to be an invaluable opportunity for developers to experiment with cutting-edge technologies and build […]
AWS – Announcing a new open source project for scenario-focused AWS CLI scripts
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching a new collection of developer-focused resources for the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI). These resources demonstrate working end-to-end shell scripts for working with AWS services and best practices that simplify the process of authoring shell scripts that handle errors, track created resources, and perform cleanup operations. The new […]
AWS – Split Cost Allocation Data for Amazon EKS supports NVIDIA & AMD GPU, Trainium, and Inferentia-powered EC2 instances
Starting today, Split Cost Allocation Data now adds support for accelerated-computing workloads running in the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). The new feature in Split Cost Allocation Data for EKS allows customers to track the costs associated with accelerator-powered (Trainium, Inferentia, NVIDIA and AMD GPUs) container-level resources within their EKS clusters, in addition to the […]
AWS – AWS Resource Explorer is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region
Today, AWS Resource Explorer has expanded the availability of resource search and discovery to the Asia Pacific (Taipei) AWS Region. With AWS Resource Explorer you can search for and discover your AWS resources across AWS Regions and accounts in your organization, either using the AWS Resource Explorer console, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune Now Integrated with Zep to Power Long-Term Memory for GenAI Applications
Today, we’re announcing the integration of Amazon Neptune with Zep, an open-source memory server for LLM applications. Zep enables developers to persist, retrieve, and enrich user interaction history, providing long-term memory and context for AI agents. With this launch, customers can now use Neptune Database or Neptune Analytics as the underlying graph store and Amazon […]
AWS – AWS Transform for VMware supports flexible network management and broader AWS Region coverage
AWS Transform for VMware now helps you maintain business continuity during migrations by supporting Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) range modifications, allowing you to run workloads in both on-premises and AWS environments without IP conflicts. When adjusting VPC CIDRs, AWS Transform automatically updates all associated resources including subnets, security groups, routing tables, […]
AWS – AWS Deadline Cloud Now Supports Automating Job Attachments Downloads
AWS Deadline Cloud now supports automating job attachments output downloads with new functionality available in the Deadline Cloud client. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for teams creating computer-generated graphics and visual effects, for films, television and broadcasting, web content, and design. The Deadline Cloud job attachments feature makes it […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus adds direct PagerDuty integration
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service now sends alerts directly to PagerDuty, making it easier to manage your incident notifications. You no longer need to create custom Lambda functions or set up additional services to connect with PagerDuty. This direct integration makes alert delivery more reliable and simplifies the authentication […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker introduces account-agnostic, reusable project profiles
Amazon SageMaker introduces account-agnostic, reusable project profiles (templates) in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio domain, enabling domain administrators to define project configurations once and reuse them across multiple AWS accounts and regions. Project profiles are no longer tied to a specific AWS account or region. Instead, platform teams can reference an account pool—a new domain entity that enables […]