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GCP – 5 ways Service Extensions callouts can improve your Cloud Load Balancing environment
In today’s dynamic digital infrastructure landscape, where reliability, scalability, and performance are paramount, Google Cloud Application Load Balancers have emerged as indispensable tools for ensuring connectivity and an optimal user experience. Using Service Extensions callouts, organizations can customize and extend their edge environment using gRPC calls to user-managed services during data processing. Service Extensions callouts […]
GCP – Woven by Toyota decreased their AI training times by 20% by using Cloud Storage FUSE
Editor’s note: Today, we hear from Woven by Toyota, the internal team behind Toyota’s Automated Driving (AD) and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) technologies, as well as “Woven City” — a test course for mobility in Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Both of these technologies — and many others — are built on Woven by Toyota’s […]
GCP – In-context observability with customizable dashboards everywhere on Google Cloud
Unified observability and quick troubleshooting are vital for any application and system running in the cloud, including popular Google Cloud products. At the same time, different companies and development teams have different needs, and a one-size-fits-all observability dashboard often falls short. Over the past year, dozens of Google Cloud teams have added deep-dive observability dashboards […]
GCP – Long document summarization with Workflows and Gemini models
With generative AI top of mind for both developers and business stakeholders, it’s important to explore how products like Workflows, Google Cloud’s serverless execution engine, can automate and orchestrate large language model (LLM) use cases. We recently covered how to orchestrate Vertex AI’s PaLM and Gemini APIs with Workflows. In this blog, we illustrate how […]
GCP – Google Cloud named a leader in the 2024 Forrester Wave™: Data Lakehouses
To unlock the value of AI, organizations recognize that they need to combine their data and AI. That also means they need a simple way to manage the entire data-to-AI lifecycle. Tens of thousands of organizations already choose BigQuery and its integrated AI capabilities to power their data clouds. Today, we’re excited to announce that […]
GCP – Ransomware Protection and Containment Strategies: Practical Guidance for Hardening and Protecting Infrastructure, Identities and Endpoints
Written by: Matthew McWhirt, Omar ElAhdan, Glenn Staniforth, Brian Meyer Multi-faceted extortion via ransomware and/or data theft is a popular end goal for attackers, representing a global threat targeting organizations in all industries. The impact of a successful ransomware event can be material to an organization, including the loss of access to data, systems, and prolonged […]
AWS – Announcing the general availability of Amazon Q Business and Amazon Q Apps (Preview)
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Q Business and the preview of Amazon Q Apps, a new Amazon Q Business capability. Amazon Q Business revolutionizes the way that employees interact with organizational knowledge and enterprise systems. It helps users get comprehensive answers to complex questions and take actions in a unified, intuitive web-based […]
AWS – Amazon Q Developer is now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Q Developer, a generative AI–powered assistant that reimagines your experience across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). Amazon Q Developer includes unique, game-changing capabilities that allow developers to offload time-consuming, manual tasks inside or outside of AWS. Amazon Q Developer capabilities include Q&A and diagnosing common errors […]
AWS – Amazon Q data integration in AWS Glue is now generally available
Today, AWS announces general availability of Amazon Q data integration, a new generative AI–powered capability of Amazon Q Developer that enables you to build data integration pipelines using natural language. Amazon Q Developer is the AWS expert to assist you with all of your development tasks. Amazon Q data integration is a new chat experience […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Lambda Insights enables you to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize the performance of AWS Lambda functions. Lambda Insights provides you access to automated dashboards summarizing the performance and health of your Lambda functions that provide visibility into issues such as memory leaks or performance […]