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GCP – Build agentic RAG on Google Cloud databases with LlamaIndex
AI agents are revolutionizing the landscape of gen AI application development. Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) has significantly enhanced the capabilities of large language models (LLMs), enabling them to access and leverage external data sources such as databases. This empowers LLMs to generate more informed and contextually relevant responses. Agentic RAG represents a significant leap forward, […]
GCP – (QR) Coding My Way Out of Here: C2 in Browser Isolation Environments
Written by: Thibault Van Geluwe de Berlaere Executive Summary Browser isolation is a security technology where web browsing activity is separated from the user’s local device by running the browser in a secure environment, such as a cloud server or a virtual machine, and then streaming the visual content to the user’s device. Browser isolation […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse integrated access controls now available in Amazon Athena federated queries
Amazon SageMaker now supports connectivity, discovery, querying, and enforcing fine-grained data access controls on federated sources when querying data with Amazon Athena. Athena is a query service that makes it simple to analyze your data lake and federated data sources such as Amazon Redshift, Amazon DynamoDB, or Snowflake using SQL without extract, transform, and load […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse and Amazon Redshift support for zero-ETL integrations from eight applications
Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse and Amazon Redshift now support zero-ETL integrations from applications, automating the extraction and loading of data from eight applications, including Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, and Zendesk. As an open, unified, and secure lakehouse for your analytics and AI initiatives, Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse enhances these integrations to streamline your data management processes. These zero-ETL integrations are […]
AWS – Introducing AWS Glue 5.0
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of AWS Glue 5.0. With AWS Glue 5.0, you get improved performance, enhanced security, support for Amazon Sagemaker Unified Studio and Sagemaker Lakehouse, and more. AWS Glue 5.0 enables you to develop, run, and scale your data integration workloads and get insights faster. AWS Glue is […]
AWS – AWS expands data connectivity for Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse and AWS Glue
Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse announces unified data connectivity capabilities to streamline the creation, management, and usage of connections to data sources across databases, data lakes and enterprise applications. SageMaker Lakehouse unified data connectivity provides a connection configuration template, support for standard authentication methods like basic authentication and OAuth 2.0, connection testing, metadata retrieval, and data preview. […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Access Grants now integrate with AWS Glue
Amazon S3 Access Grants now integrate with AWS Glue for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development workloads in AWS. S3 Access Grants map identities from your Identity Provider (IdP), such as Entra ID and Okta or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals, to datasets stored in Amazon S3. This integration gives you the […]
AWS – AWS Glue Data catalog now automates generating statistics for new tables
AWS Glue Data Catalog now automates generating statistics for new tables. These statistics are integrated with cost-based optimizer (CBO) from Amazon Redshift and Amazon Athena, resulting in improved query performance and potential cost savings. Table statistics are used by a query engine, such as Amazon Redshift and Amazon Athena, to determine the most efficient way […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse
Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse automates the extracting and loading of data from a DynamoDB table into SageMaker Lakehouse, an open and secure lakehouse. You can run analytics and machine learning workloads on your DynamoDB data using SageMaker Lakehouse, without impacting production workloads running on DynamoDB. With this launch, you now have the […]
AWS – Amazon Q Developer now provides transformation capabilities for .NET porting (Preview)
Today, AWS announces new generative-AI powered transformation capabilities of Amazon Q Developer in public preview to accelerate porting of .NET Framework applications to cross-platform .NET. Using these capabilities, you can modernize your Windows .NET applications to be Linux-ready up to four times faster than traditional methods and realize up to 40% savings in licensing costs. […]