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AWS – Announcing general availability of Console to Code to generate code
AWS is announcing the general availability of Console to Code, powered by Amazon Q Developer. Console to Code makes it simple, fast, and cost-effective to move from prototyping in the AWS Management Console to building code for production deployments. Customers can generate code for their console actions in their preferred format with a single click. […]
GCP – Using BigQuery Omni to reduce log ingestion and analysis costs in a multi-cloud environment
In today’s data-centric businesses, it’s not uncommon for companies to operate hundreds of individual applications across a variety of platforms. These applications can produce a massive volume of logs, presenting a significant challenge for log analytics. Additionally, the broad adoption of multi-cloud solutions complicates accuracy and retrieval, as the distributed nature of the logs can […]
GCP – Better together: BigQuery and Spanner expand operational insights with external datasets
Data analysts have traditionally struggled to analyze data across different databases. Because of data silos, they need to copy data from transactional databases into analytical data stores using ETL processes. BigQuery made the problem a little easier to solve if you have data in Spanner and BigQuery. Using the EXTERNAL_QUERY table-valued function (TVF), you could […]
GCP – Project Shield expands free DDoS protection to even more organizations and nonprofits
Project Shield has helped news, human rights, and elections-related organizations defend against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks since 2013 as part of Google’s commitment to keep online content universally accessible. The solution has helped keep election resources online, supported news reporting during pivotal geopolitical events, and helped governments during times of urgency. We are […]
GCP – Database Center — your AI-powered, unified fleet management solution
Organizations are grappling with an explosion of operational data spread across an increasingly diverse and complex database landscape. This complexity often results in costly outages, performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and compliance gaps, hindering their ability to extract valuable insights and deliver exceptional customer experiences. To help businesses overcome these challenges, earlier this year, we announced […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry now in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
The Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry and Schema Discovery service is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions, allowing you to discover and store event structure – or schema – in a shared, central location. You can download code bindings for those schemas for Java, Python, Typescript, and Golang so it’s […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Model Evaluation now supports evaluating custom 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 – AWS Lambda now detects and stops recursive loops between Lambda and Amazon S3
Lambda recursive loop detection can now automatically detect and stop recursive loops between AWS Lambda and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Lambda recursive loop detection, which is enabled by default, is a preventative guardrail that automatically detects and stops recursive invocations between Lambda and other supported services, preventing unintended usage and billing from runaway […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge Archive and Replay now in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon EventBridge Archive and Replay is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions, making event-driven applications more durable and extensible by providing an easier way to replay past events. Archive and Replay enables you to build applications that can more easily recover from errors and also allows you to more […]
AWS – AWS CodePipeline introduces new getting started experience
AWS CodePipeline introduces a simplified and new getting started experience to enable you to quickly create new pipelines. When you create a new pipeline using the CodePipeline console, you can now select from a list of pipeline templates across Build, Automation, and Deployment use cases. After selecting a pipeline template, you will be prompted to […]