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AWS – AWS AppConfig now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
AWS AppConfig now supports dual-stack endpoints, facilitating connectivity through Internet Protocol Version 6. The existing AWS AppConfig endpoints supporting IPv4 will remain available for backwards compatibility. The continuous growth of the internet has created an urgent need for IPv6 adoption, as IPv4 address space reaches its limits. Through AWS AppConfig’s implementation of dual-stack endpoints, organizations […]
GCP – How Mars Wrigley uses agile media experiments to measure sales lift with EPAM and Cortex Framework
Consumer packaged goods brands invest significantly in advertising, driving brand affinity to boost sales now and in the future. Campaigns are often optimized as they run by monitoring media-in-progress metrics against strategies like targeting specific audiences cohorts. However, because most sales happen in physical stores, accurately linking media sales lift to target audiences while ads […]
GCP – DORA’s new report: Unlock generative AI in software development
How is generative AI actually impacting developers’ daily work, team dynamics, and organizational outcomes? We’ve moved beyond simply asking if organizations are using AI, and instead are focusing on how they’re using it. That’s why we’re excited to share DORA’s Impact of Generative AI in Software Development report. Based on extensive data and developer interviews, […]
GCP – Migrating your apps from MySQL to Spanner just got easier
Yesterday’s databases aren‘t sufficient for tomorrow’s applications, which need to deliver dynamic, AI-driven experiences at unpredictable scale and with zero downtime. To help, at Google Cloud Next 25, we announced new functionality, improved performance, and migration tooling to simplify modernizing database workloads from MySQL to Spanner, Google Cloud’s horizontally scalable, always-on operational database. MySQL simply […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift adds history mode support to 8 third-party SaaS applications
Amazon Redshift now supports history mode for zero-ETL integrations with eight third-party applications including Salesforce, ServiceNow, and SAP. This addition complements existing history mode support for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible and MySQL-compatible, DynamoDB, and RDS for MySQL databases. The expansion enables you to track historical data changes without Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) processes, simplifying data […]
AWS – Prompt Optimization in Amazon Bedrock now generally available
In November 2024, we launched Prompt Optimization in Amazon Bedrock to accelerate prompt creation and engineering for foundation models (FMs). Today, we’re announcing its general availability and pricing. Prompt engineering is the process of designing prompts to guide FMs to generate relevant responses. These prompts must be customized for each FM according to its best […]
AWS – Announcing AWS DMS Serverless automatic storage scaling
AWS Database Migration Service Serverless (AWS DMS Serverless) now offers storage scaling. With this enhancement you never have to worry about exceeding the DMS Serverless 100GB default replication storage capacity limit when processing very large transaction volumes or using detailed logging. You can now use AWS DMS Serverless for replicating even the highest of transaction […]
GCP – SaaS delivery made easy: Meet SaaS Runtime
The demand for software as a service (SaaS) based solutions is exploding, fueled by AI-driven hyper-personalization, the rise of specialized vertical solutions, and a no-code revolution. However, building and scaling a successful SaaS can be daunting for would-be SaaS providers. Challenges include difficulty in creating personalized experiences, management complexity across thousands of instances, and dealing […]
AWS – AWS announces upgrades to Amazon Q Business integrations for M365 Word and Outlook
Today, AWS announced upgrades to the Amazon Q Business integrations for M365 Word and Outlook to enhance their utility when performing document and email centered tasks. The upgrades include company knowledge access, image file attachment support, and an expanded prompt context window. With company knowledge support, users can now ask questions about their company’s indexed […]
AWS – AWS CodeBuild adds support for specifying EC2 instance type and configurable storage size
AWS CodeBuild now supports selecting an EC2 instance by name when using reserved capacity fleets. This enhancement also allows you to configure the amount of storage attached to each instance. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces ready-to-deploy software packages. You can select a compute […]