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AWS – AWS KMS adds support for post-quantum ML-DSA digital signatures
AWS Key Management Service (KMS) now supports the FIPS 203 Module-Lattice Digital Signature Standard (MLDSA), a quantum-resistant digital signature algorithm designed to help organizations address emerging quantum computing threats. This post-quantum signature algorithm is one of the selected algorithms standardized by NIST to protect sensitive information well into the foreseeable future, including after the advent […]
AWS – Extend Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins with MCP tools
Today, Amazon Q Developer announced support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) in the integrated development environment (IDE) plugins, enabling developers to utilize external tools to support richer contextual, development workflows. MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how AI models can, in a secure and structured way, access external tools, data sources, and APIs. You […]
AWS – Amazon VPC IP Address Manager is now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud IP Address Manager (Amazon VPC IPAM) that makes it easier for you to plan, track, and monitor IP addresses for your AWS workloads, is now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. Amazon VPC IPAM allows you to easily organize your IP addresses based on your routing and security needs, and set […]
AWS – Amazon Connect enhances communication limits for Outbound Campaigns
Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns now offers new instance-level communication total limit control to give you greater flexibility in configuring how often you want to engage with your customers across multiple campaigns. It also provides the ability to opt out of limit controls for critical campaigns. These new capabilities enable more efficient and targeted customer engagement […]
GCP – How good is your AI? Gen AI evaluation at every stage, explained
As AI moves from promising experiments to landing core business impact, the most critical question is no longer “What can it do?” but “How well does it do it?”. Ensuring the quality, reliability, and safety of your AI applications is a strategic imperative. To guide you, evaluation must be your North Star—a constant process that […]
GCP – How to benchmark and scale your Google Cloud Managed Service for Kafka deployment
Businesses that rely on real-time data for decision-making and application development need a robust and scalable streaming platform, and Apache Kafka has emerged as the leading solution. At its core, Kafka is a distributed streaming platform that allows applications to publish and subscribe to streams of records, much like a message queue or enterprise messaging […]
AWS – Announcing price reductions for Amazon SageMaker AI GPU-accelerated instances
Following the announcement of the price reduction for Amazon EC2 NVIDIA GPU-accelerated instances, we are announcing up to 45% price reduction for Amazon SageMaker AI instances to enable more cost-efficient generative AI model development. The price reduction for SageMaker AI instances includes P4 (P4d and P4de) and P5 (P5, P5e and P5en) instance types. This […]
AWS – Amazon EKS Pod Identity simplifies the experience for cross-account access
Amazon EKS Pod Identity now provides a simplified experience for configuring application permissions to access AWS resources in separate accounts. With enhancements to EKS Pod Identity APIs, you can now seamlessly configure access to resources across AWS accounts by providing the resource account’s IAM details during the creation of the Pod Identity association. Your applications […]
AWS – AWS WAF now supports automatic application layer distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection
Today, AWS announces enhanced application layer (L7) DDoS protection capabilities with faster automatic detection and mitigation, designed to respond to events within seconds. AWS WAF application layer (L7) DDoS protection is an AWS Managed Rule group that automatically detects and mitigates DDoS events of any duration to ensure your applications on Amazon CloudFront, Application Load […]
AWS – Amazon Nova Sonic adds support for Spanish language
Amazon Nova Sonic, a state-of-the-art speech-to-speech foundation model, now supports Spanish language, bringing natural, real-time voice conversations to more users and developers worldwide. This expands on its original support for English, with expressive voices in American and British accents, to now include Spanish with two additional (masculine and feminine-sounding) expressive voices. Nova Sonic unifies speech […]