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AWS – Amazon MWAA now available in additional Region
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) is now available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Malaysia). Amazon MWAA is a managed service for Apache Airflow that lets you use the same familiar Apache Airflow platform as you do today to orchestrate your workflows and enjoy improved scalability, availability, and security without the operational burden of […]

AWS – Amazon Q Developer Eclipse IDE plugin is now generally available
Amazon Q Developer plugin for the Eclipse IDE is now generally available. With this launch, developers can leverage the power of Amazon Q Developer, the most capable generative AI-powered assistant for software development, within the Eclipse IDE. Within the Eclipse IDE, you’ll now be able to utilize Amazon Q Developer’s agentic coding experience to seamlessly […]

AWS – Pricing and usage model updates for Amazon EC2 instances accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs
AWS announces two updates to Amazon EC2 instances accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs. Availability of savings plans for Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances which were available at launch only through EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML. Reduced pricing for Amazon EC2 P5 and P5en instances and Amazon EC2 P4d and P4de instances: The following pricing reductions apply to […]

AWS – Amazon Connect now supports external voice transfers in five additional AWS Regions
Amazon Connect external voice transfer is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London) AWS Regions. Amazon Connect external voice transfer enables Amazon Connect to directly transfer voice calls and metadata to other voice systems without using the public telephone network. You can use Amazon Connect […]

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Osaka) regions
We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Osaka) regions. 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’ compute capacity used for data […]

AWS – AWS HealthOmics now supports automatic detection of WDL workflow parameters
Today, AWS HealthOmics announces automatic parameter interpolation for Workflow Description Language (WDL) workflows to help streamline the workflow creation process. This new capability automatically identifies and extracts required and optional parameters along with their descriptions directly from WDL workflow definitions, eliminating the need for customers to manually create input parameter templates. AWS HealthOmics is a […]

AWS – AWS Wickr announces a Preview experience for files
AWS Wickr announces the launch of Wickr File Previews. This new feature empowers organizations to protect sensitive files and lower the risk of data loss, by allowing network administrators to configure a “view-only” mode in the Security Groups section of the AWS Management Console for Wickr. Users within these security groups will be restricted to […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights launches Query Results Summarization and OpenSearch PPL enhancements
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights launches Query Results Summarization and OpenSearch PPL enhancements to help accelerate your logs analysis. The new logs summarizer generates a natural language summary of the query results, providing users with clear, actionable insights. Interpreting log entries can be time-consuming and this natural language summarization capability transforms complex query results into clear, […]

AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now available in 7 additional AWS Regions
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now available in Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Europe (Milan), Europe (Zurich), and Middle East (UAE). Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at scale. […]
GCP – Multimodal agents tutorial: How to use Gemini, Langchain, and LangGraph to build agents for object detection
Here’s a common scenario when building AI agents that might feel confusing: How can you use the latest Gemini models and an open-source framework like LangChain and LangGraph to create multimodal agents that can detect objects? Detecting objects is critically important for use cases from content moderation to multimedia search and retrieval. Langchain provides tools […]