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AWS – Amazon Nova now supports the customization of content moderation settings
Amazon Nova models now support the customization of content moderation settings for approved business use cases that require processing or generating sensitive content. Organizations with approved business use cases can adjust content moderation settings across four domains: safety, sensitive content, fairness, and security. These settings allow customers to adjust specific settings relevant to their business […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Data Automation supports additional formats for video and faster processing for images
Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) now supports AVI, MKV, and WEBM file formats along with the AV1 and MPEG-4 Visual (Part 2) codecs, enabling you to generate structured insights across a broader range of video content. Additionally, BDA delivers up to 50% faster image processing. BDA automates the generation of insights from unstructured multimodal content […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now supports automated follow-up evaluations triggered by initial evaluation results
Amazon Connect can now automatically initiate follow-up evaluations to analyze specific situations identified during initial evaluations. For example, when an initial customer service evaluation detects customer interest in a product, Amazon Connect can automatically trigger a follow-up evaluation focused on the agent’s sales performance. This enables managers to maintain consistent evaluation standards across agent cohorts […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now provides on-demand analysis for RDS for SQL Server
Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights expands the availability of its on-demand analysis experience to the RDS for SQL Server database engine. CloudWatch Database Insights is a monitoring and diagnostics solution that helps database administrators and developers optimize database performance by providing comprehensive visibility into database metrics, query analysis, and resource utilization patterns. This feature leverages machine […]
AWS – Amazon U7i instances now available in Europe (London) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 6TB of memory (u7i-6tb.112xlarge) are now available in the Europe (London) region. U7i-6tb instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-6tb instances offer 6TB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction processing […]
AWS – Amazon ECS now publishes AWS CloudTrail data events for insight into API activities
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports AWS CloudTrail data events, providing detailed visibility into Amazon ECS Agent API activities. This new capability enables customers to monitor, audit, and troubleshoot container instance operations. With CloudTrail data event support, security and operations teams can now maintain comprehensive audit trails of ECS Agent API activities, detect […]
GCP – G4 VMs under the hood: A custom, high-performance P2P fabric for multi-GPU workloads
Today, we announced the general availability of the G4 VM family based on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. Thanks to unique platform optimizations only available in Google Cloud, G4 VMs deliver the best performance of any commercially available NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU offering for inference and fine-tuning on a wide […]
GCP – The G4 VM is GA: Expanding our NVIDIA GPU portfolio for visual computing and AI
Many of today’s multimodal workloads require a powerful mix of GPU-based accelerators, large GPU memory, and professional graphics to achieve the performance and throughput that they need. Today, we announced the general availability of the G4 VM, powered by NVIDIA’s RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. The addition of the G4 expands our comprehensive […]
GCP – What’s new with the AI Hypercomputer? vLLM on TPU, and more
The Google Cloud AI Hypercomputer combines AI-optimized hardware, leading software, and flexible consumption models to help you tackle any AI workload efficiently. Every three months we share a roundup of the latest AI Hypercomputer news, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Today, we’re excited to share the latest developments to make your AI journey faster, […]
GCP – Google named a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide GenAI Life-Cycle Foundation Model Software
Unlocking real value with AI in the enterprise calls for more than just intelligence. It requires a seamless, end-to-end platform where your model and operational controls are fully integrated. This is the core of our strategy at Google Cloud: combining the most powerful models with the scale and security required for production. Today, we are […]