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GCP – Real-time in no time: Introducing BigQuery continuous queries for up-to-the-minute insights
The world operates in real time: Customers make purchases, financial transactions are made, goods are shipped, sensors generate data, and security threats emerge. The sheer volume of data generated by these real-time events is staggering. Yet, many businesses still rely on traditional, batch-oriented analysis that struggles to keep pace. Among data analysts and engineers, BigQuery […]
AWS – Announcing G4dn WorkSpaces Personal bundles with WSP for Windows
Amazon WorkSpaces is introducing G4dn WorkSpaces Personal bundles with WSP (WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol) for Windows. Now you can run your graphics-intensive and accelerated applications on Windows using G4dn WorkSpaces with WSP on AWS. The Graphics G4dn bundles offer cost-effective solutions for graphics applications optimized for NVIDIA GPUs using NVIDIA libraries such as CUDA, CuDNN, OptiX, […]
AWS – Amazon Cognito enhances Advanced Security Features (ASF) to disallow password reuse and stream security events
Amazon Cognito enhances Advanced Security Features (ASF) to address additional enterprise needs. You now have the option to disallow users from reusing previous passwords, helping you address compliance needs. Additionally, you now have the option to stream security events from ASF to an Amazon S3 bucket, Amazon Kinesis Firehose, or CloudWatch Insights. This allows you […]
AWS – Introducing Titan Image Generator v2 now available on Amazon Bedrock
We’re excited to announce the launch of Amazon Titan Image Generator v2, a new image generation model which brings to customers additional control and flexibility – including image conditioning using ControlNet, subject consistency, and background removal. With Amazon Titan Image Generator v2 image conditioning, you can use a reference image to guide the generation of […]
AWS – Announcing Terraform support Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB Deployments
We are excited to announce the launch of Terraform compatibility for Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB. Terraform support enables you to automate and streamline your time-series data management workflows with infrastructure-as-code (IaC). With Terraform support, you can now define and manage your Timestream for InfluxDB instances, databases, and tables using Terraform configuration files, reducing manual errors […]
AWS – Simplified Migration Acceleration Program for VMware funding experience in AWS Partner Central
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announces a simplified Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) template in AWS Partner Central that includes the VMware Strategic Partner Incentive (SPI). Eligible AWS Partners can leverage the enhanced MAP template to accelerate more VMware customer migration opportunities with a simple approval workflow and access to SPIs. The simplified MAP template […]
AWS – Large language models powered by Amazon Sagemaker Jumpstart available in Redshift ML
Amazon Redshift ML enables customers to create, train, and deploy machine learning models on their Redshift data using familiar SQL commands. Now, you can leverage pretrained publicly available LLMs in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart as part of Redshift ML. For example, you can use LLMs to summarize feedback, perform entity extraction, and conduct sentiment analysis on […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower releases 2 new descriptive control APIs
AWS Control Tower customers can now programmatically get descriptions for managed controls. These APIs enable automation of AWS Control Tower’s library of managed controls improving ease of use for control deployment. With this release customers can extend AWS Control Tower governance into regions where some of their enabled controls are not available. Customers can also […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service OR1 instances now available in Sao Paulo
OR1, the OpenSearch Optimized Instance family, is now available in South America (Sao Paulo). OR1 delivers up to 30% price-performance improvement over existing instances (based on internal benchmarks), and uses Amazon S3 to provide 11 9s of durability. The new OR1 instances are best suited for indexing-heavy workloads, and offers better indexing performance compared to […]
AWS – New version of Amazon ECR basic scanning is now generally available
Today, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) announced the general availability of a new version of basic scanning. The new version of ECR basic scanning uses Amazon’s native scanning technology, which is designed to provide customers with improved scanning results and vulnerability detection across a broad set of popular operating systems. This allows customers to further […]