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GCP – Accelerate AI production with data agents and BigQuery platform enhancements
As the fuel for AI, data’s role in driving innovation is uncontested. However, since so much data is unstructured and unmanaged today, data accessibility can stand in the way of AI adoption. Our goal is to make data accessible, actionable and transformative for enterprises. Today, we are delivering new capabilities to help you realize this […]
GCP – London Summit: UK businesses turn to Google Cloud AI
The AI era is here, and the UK is at the forefront. Over the past year, search interest for “AI” has surged by 50% in the country, while inquiries about “how to use AI” have jumped 70%. By 2030, AI could generate more than £400 billion ($524 billion) in value for the UK economy and […]
GCP – Scaling up in the cloud: 6 UK startups unlocking growth through digital transformation
The UK is a hive of innovation and entrepreneurship. In fact, research reveals that the UK startup ecosystem is now worth more than £839 billion ($1.1 trillion), making it the third most valuable startup ecosystem in the world (after the United States and China). As well as being a world leader in startup activity, the […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon MemoryDB for Valkey
Today, Amazon MemoryDB announces support for Valkey, which is priced 30% lower than MemoryDB for Redis OSS. With MemoryDB for Valkey, you are not charged for data written up to 10 TB/month. Any data written over 10TB/month is billed at $0.04/GB, which is 80% lower than MemoryDB for Redis OSS. Valkey is an open source, […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey
Today, Amazon ElastiCache announces support for Valkey with Serverless priced 33% lower and node-based priced 20% lower than other supported engines. With ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey, customers can create a cache in under a minute and get started as low as $6/month. Valkey is an open source, high performance, key-value datastore stewarded by Linux Foundation. […]
AWS – Access organization-wide views of agreements and spend in AWS Marketplace
AWS Marketplace announces the general availability of a new procurement insights dashboard, helping you manage your organization’s renewals and optimize your AWS Marketplace spend. The new dashboard gives you detailed visibility into your organization’s AWS Marketplace agreements and associated spend across the AWS accounts in your organization. The procurement insights dashboard identifies contracts nearing their […]
AWS – Extension of EOL Dates for Amazon Corretto 8 and 11
We are pleased to announce that Amazon is extending the End of Life (EOL) dates for Amazon Corretto 8 and Amazon Corretto 11. The new EOL dates are as follows: Amazon Corretto 8: December-2030 Previous EOL date was April 2026 Amazon Corretto 11: January-2032 Previous EOL date was September 2027 Please note that Amazon will […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches prompt customizations for Amazon Q in Connect
Amazon Q in Connect, a generative-AI powered assistant for contact center agents, now enables contact center supervisors to pre-configure LLM prompts to match your company’s brand and business guidelines. Supervisors can tailor prompts to change Amazon Q in Connect’s tone and behavior to incorporate specific company phrases, follow language guidelines, and designate certain “fixed” responses […]
AWS – AWS Deadline Cloud now supports resubmitting jobs
Today, AWS announces support for resubmitting your Deadline Cloud jobs, via API, CLI, and within the Deadline Cloud monitor, so you can easily run jobs again with updated parameters. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for teams creating computer-generated 2D/3D graphics and visual effects for films, TV shows, commercials, […]
AWS – Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver introduces new access controls for individual Kubernetes pods
The Mountpoint for Amazon S3 Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver now supports configuring distinct AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles for individual Kubernetes pods. Built on Mountpoint for Amazon S3, the CSI driver presents an S3 bucket as a volume accessible by containers in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and self-managed Kubernetes clusters. […]