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AWS – AWS KMS launches on-demand key rotation for imported keys
AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is announcing support for on-demand rotation of symmetric encryption KMS keys with imported key material. This new capability enables you to rotate the cryptographic key material of Bring Your Own Keys (BYOK) keys without changing the key identifier (key ARN). Rotating keys helps you meet compliance requirements and security best […]
AWS – Amazon Connect enhances hold duration tracking for multiparty calls
Amazon Connect now allows you to track durations of holds initiated by individual agents in multiparty calling scenarios through the new Agent Initiated Hold Duration field on the contact record. This new field allows contact center managers to gain insights into hold patterns at the individual agent level during customer interactions. This also provides other […]
AWS – Amazon EFS is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) region
Customers can now create file systems using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) 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 […]
AWS – Upgrade Experience from Amazon SageMaker Studio to SageMaker Unified Studio
Amazon SageMaker now offers an upgrade experience that enables customers to transition from SageMaker Studio to SageMaker Unified Studio while preserving their existing resources and maintaining consistent access controls. This new capability allows customers to import their SageMaker AI domains, user profiles, and spaces into SageMaker Unified Studio without redeploying infrastructure. The upgrade tool ensures […]
GCP – Accelerate your gen AI: Deploy Llama4 & DeepSeek on AI Hypercomputer with new recipes
The pace of innovation in open-source AI is breathtaking, with models like Meta’s Llama4 and DeepSeek AI’s DeepSeek. However, deploying and optimizing large, powerful models can be complex and resource-intensive. Developers and machine learning (ML) engineers need reproducible, verified recipes that articulate the steps for trying out the models on available accelerators. Today, we’re excited […]
GCP – Building a Production Multimodal Fine-Tuning Pipeline
Looking to fine-tune multimodal AI models for your specific domain but facing infrastructure and implementation challenges? This guide demonstrates how to overcome the multimodal implementation gap using Google Cloud and Axolotl, with a complete hands-on example fine-tuning Gemma 3 on the SIIM-ISIC Melanoma dataset. Learn how to scale from concept to production while addressing the […]
AWS – Announcing ASN match support for AWS WAF
AWS WAF now supports matching incoming request against Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs). By monitoring and restricting traffic from specific ASNs, you can mitigate risks associated with malicious actors, comply with regulatory requirements, and optimize the performance and availability of your web applications. This new ASN Match Statement integrates seamlessly with existing WAF rules, making it […]
AWS – AWS Invoice Summary API is now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of the Invoice Summary API. This allows you to retrieve your AWS invoice summary details programmatically via SDK. You can retrieve multiple invoice summary details by making a single API call that accepts input parameters like AWS Account ID, AWS Invoice ID, billing period, or a date range as […]
AWS – Amazon Q Developer agentic coding experience is now available within JetBrains and Visual Studio
Today, Amazon Q Developer announces support for the agentic coding experience within the JetBrains and Visual Studio IDEs. This experience, already available in Visual Studio Code and the Amazon Q Developer CLI, redefines how you write, modify, and maintain code by leveraging natural language understanding to seamlessly run complex workflows. Agentic coding provides intelligent task […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 now enables you to delete underlying EBS snapshots when deregistering AMIs
Amazon EC2 now enables you to automatically delete underlying Amazon EBS snapshots when deregistering Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), allowing you to better manage your storage costs and simplify your AMI cleanup workflow. Previously, when deregistering an AMI, you had to separately delete its associated EBS snapshots, which required additional steps. This process could lead to […]