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GCP – Introducing Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search in Spanner
Vector search is a technique used to find items that are similar to a given query item within a large dataset. It’s particularly useful when dealing with unstructured data like images, text, or audio, where traditional search methods (based on exact matches) might not be as effective. Vector search plays a crucial role in generative […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now supports Amazon Bedrock
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now supports Amazon Bedrock, enabling users to troubleshoot errors and slow performance in generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers foundation models (FMs) built by leading AI companies, such as Anthropic, Meta, and Amazon along with other tools for building generative AI applications. For users with […]
AWS – Announcing the general availability of AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault
Today, AWS Backup announces the general availability of logically air-gapped vault, a new type of AWS Backup vault that allows secure sharing of backups across accounts and organizations, supporting direct restore to help reduce recovery time from a data loss event. Logically air-gapped vault stores immutable backup copies that are locked by default, and isolated […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle supports memory optimized R6i instance types in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Starting today, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle now supports memory optimized R6i instance types in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions. The memory optimized R6i instance types feature up to 8x the RAM per vCPU of the existing R6i instance types to better fit your workloads. Many Oracle database workloads […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight now includes nested filters
Amazon QuickSight includes a new advanced filter type: nested filters. Authors can use a nested filter to use one field in a dataset to filter another field in the dataset. You might know this by another name such as in SQL this would be known as a correlated sub-query and in shopping analysis this would […]
AWS – Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku now available in more regions
Beginning today, Amazon Bedrock customers in US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) can now access Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Additionally, Amazon Bedrock customers in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) can now access Claude 3 Haiku. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is Anthropic’s latest foundation model and ranks among the most […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Europe (Paris) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 9TiB of memory (u-9tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Europe (Paris) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart […]
AWS – Amazon EFS now supports up to 30 GiB/s (a 50% increase) of read throughput
Amazon EFS provides serverless, fully elastic file storage that makes it simple to set up and run file workloads in the AWS cloud. In March 2024, we increased the Elastic Throughput read throughput limit to 20 GiB/s (from 10 GiB/s) to support the growing demand for read-heavy workloads such as AI and machine learning. Now, […]
AWS – Announcing delegated administrator for Cost Optimization Hub
Cost Optimization Hub is an AWS Billing and Cost Management feature that helps you consolidate and prioritize cost optimization recommendations, so that you can get the most out of your AWS spend. Starting today, you can designate a member account as the delegated administrator, allowing that account to view cost optimization recommendations in the Cost […]
GCP – Level up your Kubernetes security with the CIS GKE Benchmarks
Compliance efforts can feel like a challenging endeavor in most organizations. Engineering teams routinely don’t understand how often-confusing requirements will actually make the organization more secure. Sometimes, even the words that define compliance requirements can be hard to comprehend. The entire exercise can feel overwhelming, like being on an endless security treadmill. At Google Cloud, […]