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AWS – Amazon Lex improves conversational accuracy with LLM-Assisted NLU
Amazon Lex now offers a Large Language Model (LLMs) assisted Natural Language Understanding (NLU) to improve intent classification and slot resolution capabilities for English and Spanish locales. This feature allows you to leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance accuracy when the standard NLU encounters challenges, helping you deliver more natural, resilient conversational experiences, while […]
GCP – What’s new with Google Data Cloud
June 9 – June 13 Introducing Pub/Sub Single Message Transforms (SMTs), to make it easy to perform simple data transformations such as validate, filter, enrich, and alter individual messages as they move in real time right within Pub/Sub. The first SMT is available now: JavaScript User-Defined Functions (UDFs), which allows you to perform simple, lightweight […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower now supports service-linked AWS Config managed Config rules
Today, we are excited to announce support for service-linked AWS Config rules in AWS Control Towers detective controls. A service-linked AWS Config rule is managed entirely by AWS services and cannot be edited or deleted by users. To maintain consistency, prevent configuration drift, and simplify user experience, you can only update these rules through AWS […]
AWS – AWS Marketplace now supports Private Marketplace management in the console
AWS Marketplace now provides streamlined Private Marketplace management within the AWS Marketplace console. Administrators can create and manage custom Private Marketplace experiences, controlling what products can be procured from AWS Marketplace by users in their organization. These customized Private Marketplace experiences can be tailored for an entire organization, specific organizational units (OUs), or individual accounts […]
GCP – Improving Bigtable single-row read throughput by 70%: How we did it
As a scalable, distributed, high-performance, Cassandra- and HBase-compatible NoSQL database, Bigtable processes more than 5 billion sustained queries per second and has more than 10 Exabytes of data under management. At this scale, we optimize Bigtable for high-throughput and low-latency reads and writes. In a previous blog post, we shared details of how our single-row […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: How Google secures AI Agents
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for June 2025. Today, Anton Chuvakin, security advisor for Google Cloud’s Office of the CISO, discusses a new Google report on securing AI agents, and the new security paradigm they demand. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud […]
GCP – Accelerating innovation with Agent Assist, Looker (Google Cloud core) and Vertex AI Vector Search, now FedRAMP High authorized
In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, the need to protect highly sensitive government data remains paramount. Today, we reinforce our commitment to providing the highest level of assurance that sensitive agency data is protected while also streamlining the adoption of secure and modern cloud technologies, with another significant achievement – FedRAMP High authorization for Agent Assist, […]
GCP – Autonomous Network Operations framework: Unlock predictable and high-performing networks
Over the past year, an exponential surge in data, the widespread rollout of 5G, and heightened customer expectations have placed unprecedented demands upon communications service providers (CSPs). To thrive in this challenging landscape, telecommunications leaders are rethinking traditional network management, embracing digital transformation, and using the power of AI to build smarter, more efficient, and […]
AWS – AWS CloudTrail enhances logging for Amazon S3 DeleteObjects API
Today, AWS announces an enhancement to Amazon S3 DeleteObjects API logging in AWS CloudTrail, bringing additional visibility into the bulk delete operations to help you better protect and monitor the usage of your Amazon S3 buckets. Amazon S3’s DeleteObjects API enables bulk object deletion in a single operation and serves as the default method for […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import now supports Qwen models
Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import now supports Qwen models. You can now import custom weights for Qwen-based architectures, including models like Qwen 2.5 Coder, Qwen 2.5 VL, and QwQ 32B. This enables you to bring your own customized Qwen models into Bedrock and deploy them in a fully managed, serverless environment—without having to manage infrastructure […]