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AWS – AWS CodeArtifact now supports Cargo, the Rust package manager
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Cargo support in CodeArtifact. Crates, which are used to distribute Rust libraries, can now be stored in CodeArtifact. Cargo, the package manager for the Rust programming language, can be used to publish and download crates from CodeArtifact repositories. Developers can configure CodeArtifact to fetch crates from crates.io, the […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Multitenant in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Oracle Multitenant configuration on Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c running Oracle Enterprise Edition or Standard Edition 2 in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With this release, the Amazon RDS for Oracle DB instance can operate as a multitenant container database (CDB) hosting one […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock now supports compressed embeddings from Cohere Embed
Amazon Bedrock now supports compressed embeddings (int8 and binary) from the Cohere Embed model, enabling developers and businesses to build more efficient generative AI applications without compromising on performance. Cohere Embed is a leading text embedding model. It is most frequently used to power Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and semantic search systems. The text embeddings output […]
AWS – Amazon Chime SDK meetings is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region
Amazon Chime SDK now offers WebRTC meetings with API endpoints in the Africa (Cape Town) Region. With this release, Amazon Chime SDK developers can add one-to-one and group meetings with real-time audio and video to web and mobile applications from the Africa (Cape Town) Region. This release also includes the ability to connect clients to […]
AWS – Record individual participants with Amazon IVS Real-Time Streaming
Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) Real-Time Streaming enables you to build real-time interactive video experiences. With individual participant recording, you can now record each live stream participant’s video or audio to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). When recording is enabled, each participant is automatically recorded and saved as a separate file in the […]
AWS – Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet model now available in Amazon Bedrock
Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet foundation model is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock. Anthropic’s most intelligent model to date, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, sets a new industry standard for intelligence. The model outperforms other generative AI models in the industry as well as Anthropic’s previously most intelligent model, Claude 3 Opus, on a wide range of […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports configurable cluster storage
Today, AWS announces the general availability of configurable cluster storage for SageMaker HyperPod cluster instances, which enables customers to provision additional storage for model development. This launch allows you to centrally automate the provisioning and management of additional Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes for your cluster instances. With configurable cluster storage, you can easily integrate […]
GCP – Boost your log analysis with BigQuery vector search and LLMs
We recently launched BigQuery vector search, which enables semantic similarity search in BigQuery. This powerful capability can be used to analyze logs and asset metadata stored in BigQuery tables. For example, given a suspected log entry, your Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or incident response (IR) team can search for semantically similar logs to validate whether […]
GCP – Tips for troubleshooting Google Cloud Load Balancing backends
Is your Google Cloud load balancer up and running, but those backends just won’t turn green and healthy? Don’t worry, you’re not alone! This post is packed with handy tips to help you troubleshoot those unhealthy backends, potentially saving you a call to Cloud Support. Lets understand how health checks work: Just like a doctor […]
GCP – How Altice Labs enhanced API management with Google’s Application Integration
Editor’s note: Today we hear from Altice Labs, which leads research and development for telecom & business markets within Altice Group. The team builds cutting-edge telecommunications solutions that help Altice Group’s operating companies connect with over 500 million people worldwide — across video, broadband, mobile, and enterprise services. While the existing IT infrastructure in our […]