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GCP – How SIGNAL IDUNA supercharges customer service with gen AI
Today’s insurance customers expect more: simple digital services, instant access to service representatives when they want to discuss personal matters, and quick feedback on submitted invoices. Meeting these demands has become increasingly difficult for insurers due to rising inquiry volumes, a shortage of skilled workers, and the loss of expertise as employees retire. Recognizing the […]
GCP – Announcing Gemma 3 on Vertex AI
Today, we’re sharing the new Gemma 3 model is available on Vertex AI Model Garden, giving you immediate access for fine-tuning and deployment. You can quickly adapt Gemma 3 to your use case using Vertex AI’s pre-built containers and deployment tools. In this post, you’ll learn how to fine-tune Gemma 3 on Vertex AI and […]
AWS – AWS Glue now available in two new regions
AWS Glue, a serverless data integration service, is now available in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) Regions, enabling customers to build and run their ETL workloads closer to their data sources in these regions. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it simple to discover, prepare, and combine data for […]
AWS – Amazon Nova is now available in AWS GovCloud
Today, Amazon announces the expansion of Amazon Nova understanding models (Amazon Nova Lite, Amazon Nova Micro, Amazon Nova Pro) to AWS GovCloud (US-West) – an isolated U.S. sovereign region for managing sensitive data and controlled unclassified information. Government customers, technology partners, and entities with highly-regulated enterprise requirements now have access to Amazon Nova’s powerful AI […]
AWS – AWS CloudFormation Hooks’ new invocation targets and managed Hooks are available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS CloudFormation Hooks now supports three new invocation points for stacks, change sets, and AWS Cloud Control API (CCAPI) in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can now evaluate CloudFormation create/update/delete stack and change set operations, and CCAPI create/update operations. With this launch, you can standardize your proactive evaluations beyond CloudFormation resource properties by enabling […]
AWS – AWS CodeBuild now supports organization and enterprise level GitHub self-hosted runners
AWS CodeBuild now supports registering self-hosted runners at GitHub organization or enterprise level. Additionally, you can assign your self-hosted runners to specific runner groups for enhanced security and access control. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. Organization and enterprise […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift now available in 3 additional regions
Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now supported in 3 additional regions: Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Mexico (Central). This expansion enables customers to run high-performance analytics on their DynamoDB data in Amazon Redshift with no impact on production workloads running on DynamoDB. With this launch, DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift now supports multiple integrations
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift now supports up to five integrations from the same Aurora cluster. This enhancement allows customers to create multiple zero-ETL integrations between a single Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL cluster and same or different Amazon Redshift warehouses, providing greater flexibility and efficiency in […]
AWS – Amazon ECR announces ECR to ECR pull through cache
Amazon ECR announces ECR to ECR pull through cache, a capability that allows customers to automatically sync container images between two ECR private registries, existing across AWS regions and/or accounts. This enables customers to benefit from the reduced latency of pulling cached images in-region. With today’s release, Amazon ECR makes it easier for customers to […]
AWS – Amazon Inspector expands ECR support for minimal container base images and enhanced detections
Today, we are excited to announce support for scratch, distroless (Debian/Ubuntu based), and Chainguard image scanning with Amazon Inspector. With the expanded support for ECR images, Amazon Inspector extends its security coverage to minimal and security-focused container bases, enabling teams to maintain robust security practices even with highly optimized container environments. For ECR scanning, Amazon […]