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AWS – Amazon Bedrock Model Evaluation now supports evaluating custom model import models
Model Evaluation on Amazon Bedrock allows you to evaluate, compare, and select the best foundation models for your use case. Amazon Bedrock offers a choice of automatic evaluation and human evaluation. You can use automatic evaluation with predefined algorithms for metrics such as accuracy, robustness, and toxicity. Additionally, for those metrics or subjective and custom […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight now supports programmatic export and import of shared folders
Amazon QuickSight now supports programmatic export and import of shared folders as an update to previously launched StartAssetBundleExportJob and StartAssetBundleImportJob APIs. This enables you to backup and restore, continuously replicate and migrate QuickSight folders along with its member assets and sub folders. With the earlier version of these APIs, you had to managed folders deployment […]
AWS – QuickSight Reporting now supports triggering scheduled reports via API
QuickSight Reporting has expanded its event driven reporting capabilities by adding the ability to distribute pixel-perfect reports and dashboard reports via emails using APIs. Using the AWS SDK, developers can invoke StartDashboardSnapshotJobSchedule API to run the report, which will follow the configured scheduled report settings, including export type (PDF, CSV, Excel etc.) and email set […]
AWS – AWS Marketplace now supports notifications for private marketplace
Today, AWS Marketplace announces the general availability of private marketplace notifications, a new feature that streamlines the product request approval process for private marketplace customers. Using private marketplace, administrators can create customized catalogs of approved products from AWS Marketplace to enable their organization’s AWS accounts to purchase the preselected and vetted software. This capability enables […]
AWS – MemoryDB is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, AWS announces the availability of Amazon MemoryDB in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Amazon MemoryDB is a fully managed, Valkey and Redis OSS-compatible database for in-memory performance and multi-AZ durability. Customers in GovCloud regions can now use MemoryDB as a primary database for use cases that require ultra-fast performance and durable storage, such as […]
AWS – Amazon DataZone introduces new designations in projects for members to perform specific tasks
Amazon DataZone launches new project designations allowing customers to configure project members to do specific tasks while collaborating with other members in a project. Amazon DataZone is a data management service for customers to catalog, discover, share, and govern data at scale across organizational boundaries with governance and access controls. With the new designations in […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight expands integration with Amazon EventBridge
Amazon QuickSight now supports more events using Amazon EventBridge as an update to previously launched integration with Amazon EventBridge. By subscribing to QuickSight events in EventBridge, you can automate your workflows such as continuous deployment, and backups. These events are delivered to EventBridge in near real time. Developers can write simple rules to indicate which […]
GCP – From Cassandra to Bigtable: Database migration tips from Palo Alto Networks
In today’s data-driven world, businesses need database solutions that can handle massive data volumes, deliver lightning-fast performance, and maintain near-perfect uptime. This is especially true for companies with critical workloads operating at global scale, where downtime translates directly into lost revenue and frustrated customers. In this blog post, we examine how Palo Alto Networks, a […]
GCP – How The Home Depot is innovating with Google Cloud using the ABAP SDK
The Home Depot, the world’s largest home-improvement retailer, has been on a transformation journey on Google Cloud since 2017. We’ve harnessed the power of Google Cloud to enhance our customer experience, optimize critical SAP applications, and build an efficient and integrated supply chain. Our supply chain, fueled by a data platform on Google Cloud, is […]
GCP – Introducing Google Cloud’s new Vulnerability Reward Program
Vulnerability reward programs play a vital role in driving security forward. By incentivizing security research, vulnerabilities can be found and fixed by vendors before they are potentially exploited by malicious actors, protecting users and strengthening security posture. Also known as bug bounties, Google has long been a leader in supporting them, and they are now […]