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GCP – Build an AI agent for trip planning with Gemini 1.5 Pro: A step-by-step guide
Gemini 1.5 Pro is creating new possibilities for developers to build AI agents that streamline the customer experience. In this post, we’ll focus on a practical application that has emerged in the travel industry – building an AI-powered trip planning agent. You’ll learn how to connect your agent to external data sources like event APIs, […]
GCP – Boost your Continuous Delivery pipeline with Generative AI
In the domain of software development, AI-driven assistance is emerging as a transformative force to enhance developer experience and productivity and ultimately optimize overall software delivery performance. Many organizations started to leverage AI-based assistants, such as Gemini Code Assist, in developer IDEs to support them in solving more difficult problems, understanding unfamiliar code, generating test […]
GCP – How Commerzbank is transforming financial advisory workflows with gen AI
In today’s fast-paced financial landscape, staying competitive requires embracing innovation and efficiency. Commerzbank, a leading German bank, recognized the potential to streamline its internal workflows, particularly within its financial advisory division for corporate clients. Given regulatory requirements, sales advisors need to carefully document investment suggestions in detailed protocols. It’s a highly manual and time consuming […]
GCP – Seeing Through a GLASSBRIDGE: Understanding the Digital Marketing Ecosystem Spreading Pro-PRC Influence Operations
Written by: Vanessa Molter Special thanks to Mandiant’s Ryan Serabian for his contributions to this analysis. This blog post details GLASSBRIDGE—an umbrella group of four different companies that operate networks of inauthentic news sites and newswire services tracked by the Google Threat Intelligence Group (consisting of Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Mandiant). Collectively these […]
GCP – How Vodafone is using gen AI to enhance network life cycle
Generative AI is transforming industries across the globe, and telecommunications is no exception. From personalized customer interactions and streamlined content creation to network optimization and enhanced productivity, generative AI is poised to redefine the very fabric of the telco industry. Vodafone, a global leader in telecommunications, recognizes the immense potential of gen AI to revolutionize […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 added New CPU-Performance Attribute for Instance Type Selection
Starting today, EC2 Auto Scaling and EC2 Fleet customers can express their EC2 instances’ CPU-performance requirements as part of the Attribute-Based Instance Type Selection (ABIS) configuration. With ABIS, customers can already choose a list of instances types by defining a set of desired resource requirements, such as the number of vCPU cores and memory per […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Express One Zone is now available in three additional AWS Regions
The Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class is now available in three additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Ireland), and US East (Ohio). S3 Express One Zone is a high-performance, single-Availability Zone storage class purpose-built to deliver consistent single-digit millisecond data access for your most frequently accessed data and latency-sensitive applications. S3 Express […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports the ability to append data to an object
Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports the ability to append data to an object. For the first time, applications can add data to an existing object in S3. Applications that continuously receive data over a period of time need the ability to add data to existing objects. For example, log-processing applications continuously add new […]
AWS – AWS Application Load Balancer introduces header modification for enhanced traffic control and security
Application Load Balancer (ALB) now supports HTTP request and response header modification giving you greater controls to manage your application’s traffic and security posture without having to alter your application code. This feature introduces three key capabilities: renaming specific load balancer generated headers, inserting specific response headers, and disabling server response header. With header rename, […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 G6e instances now available in additional regions
Starting today, the Amazon EC2 G6e instances powered by NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs are now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Europe (Frankfurt, Spain). G6e instances can be used for a wide range of machine learning and spatial computing use cases. G6e instances deliver up to 2.5x better performance compared to G5 instances and […]