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AWS – VPC Lattice now includes TCP support with VPC Resources
With the launch of VPC Resources for Amazon VPC Lattice, you can now access all of your application dependencies through a VPC Lattice service network. You’re able to connect to your application dependencies hosted in different VPCs, accounts, and on-premises using additional protocols, including TLS, HTTP, HTTPS, and now TCP. This new feature expands upon […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 P5en instances, optimized for generative AI and HPC, are generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P5en instances, powered by the latest NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs. These instances deliver the highest performance in Amazon EC2 for deep learning and high performance computing (HPC) applications. You can use Amazon EC2 P5en instances for training and deploying increasingly complex […]
GCP – (Re)Introducing IBM Power for Google Cloud
Back in January of 2020, we announced the availability of IBM Power Systems for Google Cloud. But while the pandemic accelerated cloud computing adoption, many large enterprises still faced challenges with critical workloads such as those often found on the Enterprise IBM Power platform. At the beginning of 2022, we partnered with Converge Technology Solutions, […]
GCP – PayPal’s Real-Time Revolution: Migrating to Google Cloud for Streaming Analytics
At PayPal, revolutionizing commerce globally has been a core mission for over 25 years. We create innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, empowering consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets. Ensuring the availability of services offered to both merchants and consumers is paramount. PayPal’s journey with Dataflow has […]
GCP – Vertex AI grounding: More reliable models, fewer hallucinations
At the Gemini for Work event in September, we showcased how generative AI is transforming the way enterprises work. Across all the customer innovation we saw at the event, one thing was clear – if last year was about gen AI exploration and experimentation, this year is about achieving real-world impact. Gen AI has the […]
AWS – Amazon Web Services announces declarative policies
Today, AWS announces the general availability of declarative policies, a new management policy type within AWS Organizations. These policies simplify the way customers enforce durable intent, such as baseline configuration for AWS services within their organization. For example, customers can configure EC2 to allow instance launches using AMIs vended by specific providers and block public […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon EC2 I8g instances
AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) storage optimized I8g instances. I8g instances offer the best performance in Amazon EC2 for storage-intensive workloads. I8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors that deliver up to 60% better compute performance compared to previous generation I4g instances. I8g instances use the […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights launches enhanced observability for Amazon ECS
Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights introduces enhanced observability for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) running on Amazon EC2 and Amazon Fargate with out-of-the-box detailed metrics, from cluster level down to container level to deliver faster problem isolation and troubleshooting. Enhanced observability enables customers to visually drill up and down across various container layers and directly spot […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now supports external voice transfers
Amazon Connect now integrates with other voice systems to directly transfer voice calls and metadata without using the public telephone network. You can use Amazon Connect telephony and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) with your existing voice systems to help improve customer experience and reduce costs. Amazon Connect IVR provides conversational voice bots in 30+ languages […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports external voice
Amazon Connect now integrates with other voice systems for real-time and post-call analytics, so you can use Amazon Connect Contact Lens with your existing voice system to help improve customer experience and agent performance. Amazon Connect Contact Lens provides call recordings, conversational analytics (including contact transcript, sensitive data redaction, content categorization, theme detection, sentiment analysis, […]