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GCP – Etsy’s Service Platform on Cloud Run cuts deployment time from days to under an hour
Introduction Etsy, a leading ecommerce marketplace for handmade, vintage, and unique items has a passion for delivering innovative and seamless experiences for customers. Like many fast growing companies, Etsy needed to scale their teams, technologies, and tools to keep pace with their business growth. Indeed, between 2012 and 2021, their gross merchandise sales increased over […]
GCP – Generative AI with enterprise controls for business users in 24 Hours
Aible is a leader in generating business impact from AI in less than 30 days, helping teams use AI to extract enterprise value from raw enterprise data with solutions for customer acquisition, churn prevention, demand prediction, preventative maintenance, and more. After previously leveraging BigQuery’s serverless architecture to reduce analytics costs, Aible is now collaborating with […]
GCP – Google is a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Translytical Data Platforms, Q4 2024
With the technology advances of our cloud-first databases, Google Cloud has become the go-to platform for companies looking to run complex, real-time, business-critical workloads. Don’t just take our word for it. Today, we’re pleased to announce that Google was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Translytical Data Platforms, Q4 2024 report. We believe this […]
AWS – AWS introduces service versioning and deployment history for Amazon ECS services
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now allows you to view the service revision and deployment history for your long-running applications deployed as Amazon ECS services. This capability makes it easier for you to track and view changes to applications deployed using Amazon ECS, monitor on-going deployments, and debug deployment failures. Typically, customers deploy long […]
AWS – AWS Lambda announces JSON logging support for .NET managed runtime
AWS Lambda now enables you to natively capture application logs in JSON structured format for Lambda functions that use .NET Lambda managed runtime. JSON format allows logs to be structured as a series of key-value pairs, enabling you to quickly search, filter, and analyze large volumes of logs to easily troubleshoot failures and understand the […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management is now generally available
Earlier this year, we launched Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management in preview to simplify the creation, testing, versioning, and sharing of prompts. Today, we’re announcing its general availability and adding several new key features. First, we are introducing the ability to easily run prompts stored in your AWS account. Amazon Bedrock Runtime APIs Converse and InvokeModel […]
AWS – AWS Mainframe Modernization achieves FedRAMP Moderate and SOC compliance
AWS Mainframe Modernization has added approval for Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Moderate and System and Organization Controls (SOC) reports. AWS Mainframe Modernization has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Moderate authorization, listed on the FedRAMP marketplace, approved by the FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board (JAB) for the AWS US East / […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service announces Extended Support for engine versions
Today, we announce end of Standard Support and Extended Support timelines for legacy Elasticsearch versions and OpenSearch Versions. Standard Support ends on Nov 7, 2025, for legacy Elasticsearch versions up to 6.7, Elasticsearch versions 7.1 through 7.8, OpenSearch versions from 1.0 through 1.2, and OpenSearch versions 2.3 through 2.9. With Extended Support, for an incremental […]
AWS – Amazon SNS supports message archiving and replay for FIFO topics in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon SNS now supports in-place message archiving and replay for SNS FIFO topics in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Topic owners can now set an archive policy, which defines a retention period for the messages published to their topic. Subscribers can then set a replay policy to an individual subscription, which […]
AWS – AWS Clean Rooms ML supports privacy-enhanced model training and inferencing
Today, AWS announces AWS Clean Rooms ML custom modeling, which enables organizations to generate predictive insights with their partners running their own machine-learning (ML) models and using their data in a clean rooms collaboration. With this launch, companies and their partners can train ML models and run inference on collective datasets without having to share […]