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AWS – Amazon Athena Provisioned Capacity now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Amazon Athena Provisioned Capacity is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Provisioned Capacity allows you to run SQL queries on dedicated serverless resources for a fixed price, with no long-term commitment, and control workload performance characteristics such as query concurrency and cost. Athena is a serverless, interactive query service that makes it possible […]
AWS – AWS HealthOmics workflows now support NVIDIA L4 and L40S GPUs and expanded CPU options
AWS HealthOmics now supports the latest NVIDIA L4 and L40S graphical processing units (GPUs) and larger compute options of up to 192 vCPUs for workflows. AWS HealthOmics is a HIPAA-eligible service that helps healthcare and life sciences customers accelerate scientific breakthroughs with fully managed biological data stores and workflows. This release expands workflow compute capabilities […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Data API now supports single sign-on (SSO) with AWS IAM Identity Center
Amazon Redshift Data API, which lets you connect to Amazon Redshift through a secure HTTPS endpoint, now supports single sign-on (SSO) through AWS IAM Identity Center. Amazon Redshift Data API removes the need to manage database drivers, connections, network configurations, and data buffering, simplifying how you access your data warehouses and data lakes. AWS IAM […]
AWS – Application Load Balancer announces integration with Amazon VPC IPAM
AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) now allows customers to provide a pool of public IPv4 addresses for IP address assignment to load balancer nodes. Customers can configure a public IP Address Manager (IPAM) pool that can consist of either Bring Your Own IP addresses (BYOIPs) that is customer owned or a contiguous IPv4 address block […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens can now dynamically update the questions on an evaluation form
Contact Lens now enables you to create dynamic evaluation forms that automatically show or hide questions based on responses to previous questions, tailoring each evaluation to specific customer interaction scenarios. For example, when a manager answers “Yes” to the form question “Did the customer try to make a purchase on the call?”, the form automatically […]
AWS – Amazon SES announces Vade advanced email security Add On for Mail Manager
Today, Amazon SES announces the availability of the Vade Add On for Mail Manager, a sophisticated content filter that enhances email security for both incoming and outgoing messages. This new Add On, developed in collaboration with HornetSecurity, combines heuristics, behavioral analysis, and machine learning to provide robust protection against evolving communication threats such as spam, […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases supports GraphRAG now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of GraphRAG, a capability in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases that enhances Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) by incorporating graph data. GraphRAG delivers more comprehensive, relevant, and explainable responses by leveraging relationships within your data, improving how Generative AI applications retrieve and synthesize information. Since public preview, customers have leveraged the managed […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now available in AWS Europe (Spain) Region
We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is expanding availability to the Amazon OpenSearch Serverless to Europe (Spain) Region. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. OpenSearch Serverless’ compute capacity used for data […]
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Pools now supports FIPS 140-2 validated endpoints
Amazon WorkSpaces Pools now offers Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS) validated endpoints (FIPS endpoints) for user streaming sessions. FIPS 140-2 is a U.S. government standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive information. WorkSpaces Pools FIPS endpoints use FIPS-validated cryptographic standards, which may be required for certain sensitive information or […]
GCP – Meet Kubernetes History Inspector, a log visualization tool for Kubernetes clusters
Kubernetes, the container orchestration platform, is inherently a complex, distributed system. While it provides resilience and scalability, it can also introduce operational complexities, particularly when troubleshooting. Even with Kubernetes’ self-healing capabilities, identifying the root cause of an issue often requires deep dives into the logs of various independent components. At Google Cloud, our engineers have […]
