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AWS – Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now supports additional languages – Spanish and French
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails enable you to implement safeguards for your generative AI applications based on your use cases and responsible AI policies. Starting today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Bedrock Guardrails adds multilingual capabilities with support for Spanish and French languages. Amazon Bedrock Guardrails help you implement safeguards for building safe, generative AI […]

AWS – AWS Backup expands cross-account management in opt-in Regions
Today, AWS Backup is announcing expanded regional coverage for cross-account management in opt-in Regions (Regions that are disabled by default). Cross-account management helps customers manage and monitor backups across their AWS accounts with AWS Organizations. With cross-account management in AWS Backup, customers can deploy an organization-wide backup policy using their AWS Organizations’ management account or […]

AWS – AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code now includes Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail
AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code now includes Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail, an interactive log streaming and analytics capability which provides real-time visibility into your logs, making it easier to develop and troubleshoot your serverless applications. The Toolkit for VS Code is an open-source extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) editor. This […]

AWS – Research and Engineering Studio on AWS Version 2024.12 now available
Today we’re excited to announce Research and Engineering Studio (RES) on AWS Version 2024.12. This release makes it possible to configure your Active Directory (AD) dynamically at runtime, allows Amazon Cognito users to launch Linux virtual desktops, and gives administrators the option to configure SSH access to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). RES administrators can now […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 F2 instances, featuring up to 8 FPGAs, are generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) F2 instances, featuring up to 8 FPGAs. Amazon EC2 F2 instances, the second-generation FPGA-powered instances, are purpose built to develop and deploy reconfigurable hardware in the cloud. You can use F2 instances to power the next generation of FPGA-accelerated solutions in genomics, […]

AWS – Announcing general availability of auto-copy for Amazon Redshift in the GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Redshift announces the general availability of auto-copy, which simplifies data ingestion from Amazon S3 into Amazon Redshift in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This new feature enables you to set up continuous file ingestion from your Amazon S3 prefix and automatically load new files to tables in your Amazon Redshift data warehouse without the […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL announces Extended Support minor 11.22-RDS.20241121
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 11.22-RDS.20241121. 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 OpenSearch Service adds support for r7gd instances in six additional regions
Amazon OpenSearch Service now adds support for Graviton3 based r7gd instances with local NVMe-based SSD storage in six additional regions i.e., Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Middle East (UAE), AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). AWS Graviton3-based instances with local NVMe-based SSD storage have up to 45% improved real-time […]

AWS – Amazon Connect now supports holiday overrides for Hours of operation
You can now configure holidays and other variances to your contact center Hours of operation with “overrides” in Amazon Connect, using APIs or the admin website. Overrides are exceptions to your contact center’s standard day-of-the-week operating hours. For example, if your contact center opens at 9am and closes at 10pm, but on New Year’s Eve […]
GCP – How Ford Pro uses Bigtable to harness connected vehicle telemetry data
Ford Pro Intelligence is a cloud-based platform that is used for managing and supporting fleet operations of its commercial customers. Ford commercial customers range from small businesses, large enterprises like United Postal Service and Pepsi where fleets can be thousands of vehicles, and government groups and municipalities like the City of Dallas. The Ford Pro […]