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AWS – Amazon Bedrock now supports cross-region inference
Today, Amazon Bedrock announces support for cross-region inference, an optional feature that enables developers to seamlessly manage traffic bursts by utilizing compute across different AWS Regions. By using cross-region inference, Bedrock customers using on-demand mode will be able to get higher throughput limits (up to 2x their allocated in-region quotas) and enhanced resilience during periods […]
AWS – Amazon Q Business launches IAM federation for user identity authentication
Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, generative AI–powered assistant that enhances workforce productivity by answering questions, providing summaries, generating content, and completing tasks based on customers’ enterprise data. Customers create and manage their workforce user identity using identity providers of their choice. Previously, customers had to sync their user identity information from their identity […]
AWS – AWS announces support for Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Intune on Amazon WorkSpaces Personal
Amazon WorkSpaces Personal now supports Microsoft Entra ID and Intune. With this launch, customers using Amazon WorkSpaces Personal can now provision virtual desktops joined with Entra ID and enrolled in Intune, without requiring Microsoft Active Directory. By integrating with AWS IAM Identity Center, the launch also allows customers the flexibility to use other cloud-based identity […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL announces Extended Support minor 11.22-RDS.20240808
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 11.22-RDS.20240808. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of PostgreSQL. Learn more about the updates and patches in this Extended Support minor version in the Amazon RDS User Guide. Amazon […]
AWS – Amazon Braket adds support for Rigetti’s 84-Qubit Ankaa™-2 system, our largest gate-based superconducting device
Amazon Braket, the quantum computing service from AWS, now offers Rigetti Computing’s latest 84-qubit Ankaa-2 system in the US West (N. California) Region. Ankaa-2 is the highest qubit-count gate-based quantum device available on Amazon Braket, enabling customers to tackle larger and more complex problems while pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with today’s quantum hardware. […]
AWS – AWS announces a streamlined Federated and SSO sign in process for the AWS Console Mobile App
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing a streamlined Federated and SSO sign in process for the AWS Console Mobile App. AWS customers who use Federated or SSO authentication methods with the AWS Console Mobile App can now select their sign in URL from a list of recently used URLs when they setup a subsequent identity […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight now supports sharing views of embedded dashboards
Amazon QuickSight now supports sharing views of embedded dashboards. This feature allows developers to enable more collaborative capabilities in their application with embedded QuickSight dashboards. Additionally, they can enable personalization capabilities such as bookmarks for anonymous users. This feature enables embedded dashboards readers to collaborate easily. They can share a unique link that displays only […]
GCP – Announcing Terraform Google Provider 6.0.0: More Flexibility, Better Control
The Terraform Google Provider v6.0.0 is now GA. Since the last major Terraform provider release in September 2023, we have been listening closely to the community’s feedback. Discussed below are the primary enhancements and bug fixes that this major release focuses on. Support for earlier versions of Terraform will not change as a result of […]
GCP – A multimodal search solution using NLP, BigQuery and embeddings
Today’s digital landscape offers a vast sea of information, encompassing not only text, but also images and videos. Traditional enterprise search engines were primarily designed for text-based queries, and often fall short when it comes to analyzing visual content. However, with a combination of natural language processing (NLP) and multimodal embeddings, a new era of […]
GCP – The modern marketer’s strategic advantage: AI-powered data clean rooms
Businesses across all industries crave data to better understand their customers and drive sales. Imagine a major consumer packaged goods brand that primarily sells through a large retailer. This brand could gain valuable insights by understanding the key actions / high-value assets (HVAs) customers take on the retailer’s website before making a purchase. Although this […]