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AWS – Writer’s Palmyra X5 and X4 models are now available in Amazon Bedrock
Writer’s enterprise-grade foundation models, Palmyra X5 and X4, are now available as fully managed, serverless models in Amazon Bedrock. AWS is the first cloud provider to offer fully managed models from Writer, allowing organizations to leverage enterprise AI capabilities with serverless scalability and cost optimization. Palmyra X5 has a one million token context window, while Palmyra […]
GCP – Introducing BigQuery DataFrames 2.0 for the era of multimodal data science
For data scientists and ML engineers, building analysis and models in Python is almost second nature, and Python’s popularity in the data science community has only skyrocketed with the recent generative AI boom. We believe that the future of data science is no longer just about neatly organized rows and columns. For decades, many valuable […]
GCP – Waze’s journey to Infrastructure as Code with Google Cloud’s KCC
In 2023, the Waze platform engineering team transitioned to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Google Cloud’s Config Connector (KCC) — and we haven’t looked back since. We embraced Config Connector, an open-source Kubernetes add-on, to manage Google Cloud resources through Kubernetes. To streamline management, we also leverage Config Controller, a hosted version of Config Connector […]
GCP – Announcing the first cohort of the Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First UK
At Google, we believe in empowering people and founders to use AI to tackle humanity’s biggest challenges. That’s why we’re supporting the next generation of AI leaders through our Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First programs. We announced the program in January and today, we’re proud to welcome 16 UK-based startups into our accelerator community […]
GCP – From insight to action: M-Trends, agentic AI, and how we’re boosting defenders at RSAC 2025
Cybersecurity is facing a unique moment, where AI-enhanced threat intelligence, products, and services are poised to give defenders an advantage over the threats they face that’s proven elusive — until now. To empower security teams and business leaders in the AI era, and to help organizations proactively combat evolving threats, today at RSA Conference we’re […]
GCP – The dawn of agentic AI in security operations
The daily grind of sifting through endless alerts and repetitive tasks is burdening security teams. Too often, defenders struggle to keep up with evolving threats, but the rapid pace of AI advancement means it doesn’t have to be that way. Today at the RSA Conference, as we introduce M-Trends 2025 and discuss how we’re boosting […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Data Automation now supports modality controls, hyperlinks and larger documents
Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) now supports modality enablement, modality routing by file type, extraction of embedded hyperlinks when processing documents in Standard Output, and an increased overall document page limit of 3,000 pages. These new features give you more control over how your multimodal content is processed and improve BDA’s overall document extraction capabilities. […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge cross-account event delivery now in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Starting today, in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions, you can now deliver events from an Amazon EventBridge Event Bus directly to AWS services in another account. Using multiple accounts can improve security and streamline business processes while reducing the overall cost and complexity of your architecture. Amazon EventBridge Event Bus is […]
AWS – AWS Resource Explorer now supports AWS PrivateLink
AWS Resource Explorer now supports AWS PrivateLink in all commercial AWS Regions, allowing you to search for and discover your AWS resources within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without traversing the public internet. With AWS Resource Explorer you can search for and discover your AWS resources across AWS Regions and accounts in your organization, […]
AWS – Amazon Q Developer operational investigations (preview) now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Q Developer operational investigations is available in preview in 11 additional regions. With this launch, Amazon Q Developer operational investigations is now available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Sydney), […]