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AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now available in Canada (Central) region
We are excited to announce the availability of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless in the Canada (Central) region. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. OpenSearch Serverless automatically provisions and scales resources to provide consistently fast data […]
AWS – Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now offers observability logs
Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capability that allows you to connect foundation models (FMs) to internal company data sources to deliver relevant and accurate responses. Knowledge Bases now supports observability, offering log delivery choice through CloudWatch, S3 buckets, and Firehose streams. This capability provides enhanced visibility and timely […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL supports new minor version 8.0.37
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor version 8.0.37. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community. Learn more about the […]
GCP – Square Enix’s journey of building an AI-driven Customer Data Platform
Editor’s note: In this post, we’ll learn from Japanese video game and entertainment company Square Enix about its journey building a customer data platform with Google Cloud to enhance its first-party data strategy by collecting and connecting its marketing, player, and game data. In today’s data-driven world, understanding who your customers are is more critical […]
GCP – GKE under the hood: What’s new with Cluster Autoscaler
In the world of cloud infrastructure, sometimes the most impactful features are the ones you never have to think about. When it comes to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), we have a long history of quietly innovating behind the scenes, optimizing the invisible gears that keep your clusters running smoothly. These enhancements might not always grab […]
GCP – Google is a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms
We are thrilled to share that Gartner® has named Google a Leader in the 2024 Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and Business Intelligence. We believe this is a testament to our strategy of delivering innovative business intelligence offerings across ad-hoc, governed, and embedded analytics, as well as our vision for integrating AI to enable our customers […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now provides granular access control for foundation models
Starting today, enterprise admins using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart can easily configure granular access control for foundation models (FM) that are discoverable and accessible to users within their organization. Amazon SageMaker JumpStart is a machine learning (ML) hub that offers pretrained models and built-in algorithms to help you quickly get started with ML. Amazon SageMaker JumpStart […]
AWS – Default Role in CodeCatalyst Environments
Today Amazon CodeCatalyst announces support for adding a default IAM role to an environment. Previously – when a workflow was configured – a user was required to specify the environment, AWS account connection, and IAM role for each individual action in order for that action to interact with AWS resources. With the default IAM role, […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports IPv6 for outbound connections in VPC in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Lambda now allows Lambda functions to access resources in dual-stack VPC (outbound connections) over IPv6 in the AWS GovCloud(US) Regions. With this launch, Lambda enables you to scale your application without being constrained by the limited number of IPv4 addresses in your VPC, and to reduce costs by minimizing the need for translation mechanisms. […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 is now available in AWS Canada (Calgary) region
You can now use the Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 with Amazon Redshift in the AWS Canada (Calgary) region. Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 makes data in your Amazon Redshift data warehouse and data lake more accessible with a web-based tool for SQL users such as data analysts, data scientists, and database developers. With Query […]