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GCP – Introducing agent evaluation in Vertex AI Gen AI evaluation service
Comprehensive agent evaluation is essential for building the next generation of reliable AI. It’s not enough to simply check the outputs; we need to understand the “why” behind an agent’s actions – its reasoning, decision-making process, and the path it takes to reach a solution. That’s why today, we’re thrilled to announce Vertex AI Gen […]
GCP – How we’re making GKE more transparent with supply-chain attestation and SLSA
What goes into your Kubernetes software? Understanding the origin of the software components you deploy is crucial for mitigating risks and ensuring the trustworthiness of your applications. To do this, you need to know your software supply chain. Google Cloud is committed to providing tools and features that enhance software supply chain transparency, and today […]
GCP – Announcing smaller machine types for A3 High VMs
Today, an increasing number of organizations are using GPUs to run inference1 on their AI/ML models. Since the number of GPUs needed to serve a single inference workload varies, organizations need more granularity in the number of GPUs in their virtual machines (VMs) to keep costs low while scaling with user demand. You can use […]
GCP – New Year, New OS. Supporting your business with ChromeOS Flex
Out with the old, in with the new It’s a new year, which means new beginnings, fresh starts, ambitious resolutions, and the sinking feeling that you still have outdated tech slowing down and creating unnecessary costs for your business. Thankfully, there’s a no-cost, easy to deploy New Year’s resolution to add to your tech stack. […]
AWS – Amazon EFS is now available in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region
Customers can now create file systems using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region. Amazon EFS is designed to provide serverless, fully elastic file storage that lets you share file data without provisioning or managing storage capacity and performance. It is built to scale on demand to petabytes without disrupting […]
AWS – AWS Elastic Beanstalk improves scaling and deployment speeds for Windows instance with EC2 Fast-launch
With AWS Elastic Beanstalk you can easily deploy and manage applications in AWS without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. Now, Elastic Beanstalk automatically launches Windows instances with EC2 Fast Launch enabled on currently supported Windows platform versions. This new functionality helps in timely provisioning of Windows instances at scale reducing downtime and […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Flows announces preview of multi-turn conversation support
Amazon Bedrock Flows enables you to link foundation models (FMs), Amazon Bedrock Prompts, Amazon Bedrock Agents, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails and other AWS services together to build and scale pre-defined generative AI workflows. Today, we announce preview of multi-turn conversation support for agent nodes in Flows. This feature enables dynamic, back-and-forth conversations […]
AWS – Luma AI’s Ray2 visual AI model Amazon Bedrock
Luma AI’s new video-generating AI foundation model (FM), Ray2, is now available in Amazon Bedrock. AWS is the first and only cloud provider to offer fully managed models from Luma AI, expanding creative possibilities for developers and businesses using AWS services. Luma Ray2 is a large-scale video-generation model capable of creating realistic visuals with fluid, […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch allows alarming on data up to 7 days old
Amazon CloudWatch now lets customers evaluate metrics data for an extended duration of up to 7 days, a 7x increase from the previous limit of 24 hours. This enhancement empowers customers to monitor the health of longer-running or infrequent processes, such as daily data loading jobs or day-over-day performance trends, offering deeper insights into their resources […]
AWS – AWS Marketplace launches automated version archiving for AMI and container products
Today, AWS Marketplace announces the availability of automated archival of old, unused product versions that are no longer available publicly for subscription (restricted). This feature is available for Amazon Machine Image (AMI), AMI with CloudFormation templates, and container products. With this release, AWS Marketplace is streamlining the version management experience for AWS customers and sellers. […]