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AWS – Amazon SageMaker contributes a custom transport to OpenLineage community and offers additional lineage capabilities
AWS announces that Amazon SageMaker has contributed a custom transport ‘AmazonDataZoneTransport’ to the OpenLineage community and enhanced automated lineage capabilities. These lineage enhancements include improvements to automation from sources such as AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift, and automated lineage capture from tools, enabling data scientists and engineers to work more efficiently with their data and models. […]
AWS – AWS Directory Service for Microsoft AD and AD Connector available in Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region
AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, and AD Connector are now available in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. Built on actual Microsoft Active Directory (AD), AWS Managed Microsoft AD enables you to migrate AD-aware applications while reducing the work of managing AD infrastructure in the AWS Cloud. […]
GCP – Using Platform Engineering to simplify the developer experience – part one
Editor’s note: This is part one of the story. After you’re finished reading, head over to part two. In 2017, John Lewis, a major UK retailer with a £2.5bn annual online turnover, was hampered by its monolithic e-commerce platform. This outdated approach led to significant cross-team dependencies, cumbersome and infrequent releases (monthly at best), and […]
GCP – You dream it, Veo creates it: Veo 3 is now available for everyone in public preview on Vertex AI
A great story doesn’t just tell you, it shows you. With Veo 3, we’ve leapt forward in combining video and audio generation to take storytelling to the next level. Today, we’re excited to share that Veo 3 is now available for all Google Cloud customers and partners in public preview on Vertex AI. Why this […]
GCP – New AI tools help partners increase efficiency and growth
At Google Cloud, we’re building the most enterprise-ready cloud for the AI era, which includes ensuring our partner ecosystem has the best technology, support, and resources to optimally serve customers. Today, we’re announcing two AI-powered tools that will enable partners to more efficiently complete manual tasks and access information, while augmenting their capabilities with a […]
GCP – Tools Make an Agent: From Zero to Assistant with ADK
Imagine that you’re a project manager at QuantumRoast, a global coffee machine company. You help your teammates navigate a sea of engineering roadmaps, sudden strategy pivots (we’re doing matcha now!), and incoming tickets from customers— everything from buggy invoice systems to a coffee machine that’s making a high-pitched noise 24/7. On a regular day, you […]
AWS – Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports Amazon S3 access
You can now attach Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Access Points to your Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems so that you can access your file data as if it were in S3. With this new capability, your file data in FSx for OpenZFS is accessible for use with the broad range of artificial […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker now supports automatic synchronization from Git to S3
Today, AWS announces a new feature for Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio that automatically synchronizes files from project Git repositories to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio is a single data and AI development environment that brings together functionality and tools from AWS Analytics and AI/ML services services. It facilitates building, […]
GCP – Google named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave for security analytics platforms
We are excited to announce that Google has been named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Security Analytics Platforms, Q2 2025, in our first year of participation. The report acknowledges Google Cloud’s vision which relies heavily on Mandiant’s roots in threat-intelligence-driven security operations, which are evident in the platform. For us, this recognition validates […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Flows announces preview of persistent long-running execution and inline-code support
Amazon Bedrock Flows enables you to link foundation models (FMs), Amazon Bedrock Prompts, Amazon Bedrock Agents, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails and other AWS services together to build and scale pre-defined generative AI workflows. Today, we announce the preview of persistent execution for long running workflows, and inline-code execution support within the flows. […]