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GCP – AI Innovators: How JAX on TPU is helping Escalante advance AI-driven protein design
As a Python library for accelerator-oriented array computation and program transformation, JAX is widely recognized for its power in training large-scale AI models. But its core design as a system for composable function transformations unlocks its potential in a much broader scientific landscape. Following our recent post on solving high-order partial differential equations, or PDEs, […]
AWS – AWS License Manager now supports shared AWS Managed Active Directory
AWS License Manager announces support for shared AWS Managed Active Directory across multiple AWS accounts, simplifying Microsoft license management on AWS. Customers can now centralize user subscriptions of Microsoft Office, Visual Studio, and Remote Desktop Service instances running in their AWS Organization while maintaining clear visibility across AWS accounts. With this launch, customers are no […]
GCP – Announcing the 2025 DORA Report: State of AI-Assisted Software Development
Today, we are excited to announce the 2025 DORA Report: State of AI-assisted Software Development. Drawing on insights from over 100 hours of qualitative data and survey responses from nearly 5,000 technology professionals from around the world. The report reveals a key insight: AI doesn’t fix a team; it amplifies what’s already there. Strong teams […]
AWS – AWS announces EC2 instance attestation
AWS announces the general availability of EC2 instance attestation to make it easier for customers to validate that only trusted software is running on their EC2 instances, including instances with AI chips and GPUs. Before this, customers could configure their EC2 instances to remove operator access from their own administrators and users, but there was […]
AWS – Amazon RDS announces cross-Region and cross-account snapshot copy
Amazon RDS now supports cross-Region and cross-account copying of Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora snapshots. This launch allows you to copy snapshots across Regions and accounts directly without performing it sequentially as two separate copies. Customers use cross-Region and cross-account snapshot copies for managing the risk of incidents such as ransomware attacks and region outages […]
AWS – Amazon Nova Act extension: Build and test AI agents within your IDE
We’re excited today to announce the Amazon Nova Act extension – a tool that transforms how you build with Nova Act by bringing the entire agent development experience directly into IDEs like Visual Studio Code, Kiro, and Cursor. The Nova Act extension consolidates natural language based script creation, granular scripting precision, and robust browser testing […]
AWS – AWS IAM Identity Center organization instances now support customer-managed KMS keys for encryption at rest
IAM Identity Center now supports customer-managed AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys for encrypting workforce identity data, including user and group attributes. While AWS-owned keys are used by default, customer-managed keys (CMKs) provide granular control over identity data access, enhancing security and compliance capabilities. IAM Identity Center helps you securely create, or connect, your workforce […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now supports you to associate custom attributes with interaction segments
Amazon Connect now supports you to associate custom attributes with interaction segments, ensuring reporting and analytics always reflect the true customer journey. Attributes such as business unit name, account type, or contact reason can be centrally managed with predetermined values and applied to contact records through flows or the UpdateContact API. This approach preserves accurate […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 R8gb instances are now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of the new Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS) optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8gb instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors to deliver up to 30% better compute performance than AWS Graviton3 processors. At up to 150 Gbps of EBS bandwidth, these instances offer […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Serverless is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) region
Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in the AWS Asia Pacific(Taipei) region. With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users, including data analysts, developers, and data scientists, can use Amazon Redshift to get insights from data in seconds. Amazon […]