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AWS – Amazon Cognito is now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region
Starting today, customers can use Amazon Cognito in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. Cognito makes it easy to add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. The service scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers […]
AWS – AWS Backup now supports Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots Archive in backup policies
Today, AWS Backup announces support for Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive in backup policies, allowing customers to automatically move Amazon EBS Snapshots created by AWS Backup to Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive at the AWS Organizations level. Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive is low-cost, long-term storage tier meant for your rarely-accessed snapshots that do not need frequent retrieval. […]
AWS – Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock can now detect hallucinations & safeguard apps using any FM
Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock enables customers to implement safeguards based on their application requirements and responsible AI policies. Today, guardrails adds contextual grounding checks and introduces a new ApplyGuardrail API to build trustworthy generative AI applications using any foundation model (FM). Customers rely on the inherent capabilities of the FMs to generate grounded (credible) responses […]
AWS – Amazon Q Developer is now available in SageMaker Studio
Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed machine learning service, announces the general availability of Amazon Q Developer in SageMaker Studio. SageMaker Studio customers now get generative AI assistance powered by Q Developer right within their JupyterLab Integrated Development Environment (IDE). With Q Developer, data scientists and ML engineers can access expert guidance on SageMaker features, code […]
AWS – Customize Amazon Q Developer code recommendations, and receive chat responses in the IDE (Preview)
Today, AWS announces the general availability of customized Amazon Q Developer inline code recommendations. You can now securely connect Amazon Q Developer to your private code bases and generate more precise suggestions by including your organization’s internal APIs, libraries, classes, methods, and best practices. In preview, you can also use Amazon Q Developer chat in […]
GCP – How AlloyDB transformed Bayer’s data operations
Editor’s note: Bayer built its modern data solution, Field Answers, to store and analyze vast amounts of observational data. As part of the process of preparing to onboard new market segments, extensive load testing revealed that a new database solution was necessary to handle the dramatic increase in traffic. Migrating to AlloyDB for PostgreSQL has […]
GCP – IAM so lost: A guide to identity in Google Cloud
Identity and access management (IAM) can seem like a gentle hill at first. It’s not too difficult to manage, assigning logins and passwords, and granting access control based on a person’s job in an organization. However, that gentle hill can shift as you start to configure IAM. Suddenly, it can feel like a steep mountain […]
GCP – Faster API development with the Cloud Code plugin for API management
Developers are at the heart of API delivery, and they need tools that make the process faster and easier. Apigee is a powerful API management platform that helps enterprises build, manage, monetize and scale APIs with tools that help developers simplify and speed up API development. Apigee is accessible in the Google Cloud console, as […]
AWS – Agents for Amazon Bedrock now support code interpretation (Preview)
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) today announced a new code interpretation capability on Agents for Amazon Bedrock. Code interpretation allows agents to dynamically generate and execute code snippets within a secure sandboxed environment, extending the capabilities of Agents for complex use cases such as data analysis, data visualization, and optimization problems. This new capability allows […]
AWS – Agents for Amazon Bedrock now retain memory (Preview)
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) today announced Agents for Amazon Bedrock can retain memory across multiple interactions over time, allowing developers to build generative AI applications that seamlessly adapt to user context and preferences, enhancing personalized experiences and automating complex business processes more efficiently. By retaining memory AI assistants remember historical knowledge and learn from […]