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GCP – Google named a leader in the Forrester Wave: AI/ML Platforms, Q3 2024
Today, we are excited to announce that Google is a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: AI/ML Platforms, Q3 2024, tying for the highest score of all vendors evaluated in the Strategy category. At Google Cloud, we are committed to providing you with a unified platform that supports the entire AI lifecycle – from data preparation […]

GCP – ChromeOS powered digital signage guides the way at Gerald R. Ford International Airport
Today’s post is by J.J. Swain, IT Manager for Gerald R. Ford International Airport (GRR) in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The airport serves more than three million passengers annually and over 100 cargo flights per day. GRR partnered with ChromeOS and Art of Context to upgrade and modernize the airport’s extensive digital signage system. At an […]

AWS – AWS Fault Injection Service introduces additional safety control
AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) now provides additional safety control with a safety lever that, when engaged, stops all running experiments and prevents new experiments from starting. Customers can now prevent fault injection during certain time periods, such as sales events or product launches, or in response to application health alarms. FIS has built-in safety […]

AWS – AWS Glue now provides job queuing
Today, AWS adds job queuing for AWS Glue jobs. This new capability enables you to submit AWS Glue job runs without needing to manage account level quotas and limits. AWS Glue job queuing monitors your account level quotas and limits. If quotas or limits are insufficient to start a Glue job run, AWS Glue will […]

AWS – Amazon EBS direct APIs now supports IPv6 in AWS PrivateLink
Amazon EBS direct APIs now support the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) protocol when you connect your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to EBS Direct APIs using AWS PrivateLink. EBS direct APIs can help customers to simplify their backup and recovery workflows by directly creating and reading EBS snapshots via APIs. Through AWS PrivateLink, customers can […]

AWS – Introducing sagemaker-core: A New Object-Oriented SDK for Amazon SageMaker
Amazon SageMaker is excited to announce sagemaker-core, a new Python SDK that provides an object-oriented interface for interacting with SageMaker resources such as TrainingJob, Model, and Endpoint resource classes. The resource chaining feature in sagemaker-core lets developers pass resource objects as parameters, eliminating the need to manually specify complex parameters. The SDK also abstracts low-level […]

AWS – Amazon DynamoDB announces support for Attribute-Based Access Control
Amazon DynamoDB now supports Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for tables and indexes. ABAC is an authorization strategy that defines access permissions based on tags attached to users, roles, and AWS resources. With ABAC, you can now use your tags to configure access permissions and policies. Tag-based access conditions can be used to allow or deny […]

AWS – Amazon Connect now offers intraday forecasts
Amazon Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and agent scheduling now includes machine learning (ML) powered intraday forecast capabilities, available within the Amazon Connect Contact Lens dashboards. With intraday forecasts, you receive updates every 15 minutes with predictions for rest-of-day contact volumes, average queue answer time, and average handle time. These forecasts allow you to take proactive […]

AWS – AWS Network Load Balancer now supports configurable TCP idle timeout
Today AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) is launching a new capability that allows you to align the TCP idle timeout value of NLB with clients and target applications. Using this capability you can now reduce TCP connection retries and latency in applications that use long-lived flows, such as telemetry reporting devices, databases, streaming services and […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens can now generate transcriptions in 10 new languages
Amazon Connect Contact Lens can now generate transcriptions in 10 new languages that include Catalan (Spain), Danish (Denmark), Dutch (Netherlands), Finnish (Finland), Indonesian (Indonesia), Malay (Malaysia), Norwegian Bokmål (Norway), Polish (Poland), Swedish (Sweden), and Tagalog/Filipino (Philippines). With this launch, Contact Lens conversational analytics now provides transcription support for 33 languages. Amazon Connect Contact Lens helps […]