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AWS – AWS Resilience Hub now provides tailored AWS Fault Injection Service recommendations
AWS Resilience Hub now supports an enhanced integration with AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) to offer tailored experiment recommendations. Fault injection experiments help test and improve your applications’ performance, observability, and resilience. When you onboard an application to the Resilience Hub, you receive customized experiment recommendations based on the specific application context. With this […]
AWS – AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports Slurm version 24.05
Today, we are announcing Slurm 24.05 support in AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS). You can now create AWS PCS clusters running the newer Slurm 24.05 version. AWS PCS’ release of Slurm 24.05 provides new Slurm fixes and security updates, including improved auditing for RPC calls, hardened security, and enhancements in Slurm client commands. With […]
AWS – Amazon Q Business analytics dashboard enhanced with conversation insights
Amazon Q Business, the most capable generative AI-powered assistant for finding information, gaining insight, and taking action at work, now offers enhanced administration capabilities, providing valuable insights from AI conversations and user feedback information. With the new analytics dashboard, administrators can view and analyze various aspects of these conversations, including: No answer found queries: Administrators […]
AWS – AWS DMS now supports Kerberos authentication for Oracle and SQL Server Source Endpoints
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) now allows customers to use Kerberos authentication to securely connect to Oracle and SQL Server source endpoints. This feature allows users to authenticate database connections using the Kerberos protocol, a widely adopted standard for secure identity verification. With this update, AWS DMS can authenticate using credentials stored in AWS […]
AWS – AWS Glue expands connectivity to 16 native connectors for applications
AWS Glue announces 16 new connectors for applications, expanding its connectivity portfolio. Now, customers can use AWS Glue native connectors to ingest data from Adobe Analytics, Asana, Datadog, Facebook Page Insights, Freshdesk, Freshsales, Google Search Console, Linkedin, Mixpanel, Paypal Checkout, Quickbooks, SendGrid, SmartSheets, Twilio, WooCommerce and Zoom Meetings. As enterprises increasingly rely on data-driven decisions, […]
GCP – Optimizing RAG retrieval: Test, tune, succeed
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) supercharges large language models (LLMs) by connecting them to real-time, proprietary, and specialized data. This helps LLMs deliver more accurate, relevant, and contextually aware responses, minimizing hallucinations and building trust in AI applications. But RAG can be a double-edged sword: while the concept is straightforward – find relevant information and feed it […]
GCP – How Memorystore helps FanCode stream 2X more live sports
Editor’s note: FanCode needed to deliver low-latency, personalized sports content to millions of fans while scaling rapidly. By migrating to Google Cloud and adopting Memorystore for Redis Cluster, FanCode built a fully integrated, scalable backend infrastructure that supports real-time features and high-traffic live events. Today, FanCode streams 2x more live events annually with consistent performance […]
GCP – Google Cloud’s commitment to responsible AI is now ISO/IEC certified
With the rapid advancement and adoption of AI, organizations face increasing pressure to ensure their AI systems are developed and used responsibly. This includes considerations around bias, fairness, transparency, privacy, and security. A comprehensive framework for managing the risks and opportunities associated with AI can help by offering a structured approach to building trust and […]
GCP – Google Cloud and SAP: Powering AI with enterprise data
As the 2027 end of support for SAP Business Suite 7 approaches, SAP customers need to decide where to deploy as they upgrade to cloud-based S/4HANA and RISE with SAP. This represents a great opportunity to get more value out of your enterprise data, and take advantage of the longstanding partnership between Google Cloud and […]
AWS – Amazon Route 53 Resolver Endpoints now available in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) Regions
You can now use Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud configurations in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) Regions. With this launch, you also have the option to enable Route 53 Resolver endpoints in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) Regions with DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH). Amazon Route 53 is a highly available […]