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GCP – Announcing public beta of Gen AI Toolbox for Databases
Today, we are thrilled to announce the public beta launch of Gen AI Toolbox for Databases in partnership with LangChain, the leading orchestration framework for developers building large language model (LLM) applications. Gen AI Toolbox for Databases (Toolbox) is an open-source server that empowers application developers to connect production-grade, agent-based generative AI (gen AI) applications […]
GCP – Rightsize your Memorystore for Redis Clusters with open-source Autoscaler
One of the most compelling aspects of cloud computing is being able to automatically scale resources up, but almost as importantly, to scale them back down to manage costs and performance. This is standard practice with virtual machines, for instance Compute Engine Managed Instance Groups, but because of their inherent complexity, less so with stateful […]
GCP – Using capa Rules for Android Malware Detection
Mobile devices have become the go-to for daily tasks like online banking, healthcare management, and personal photo storage, making them prime targets for malicious actors seeking to exploit valuable information. Bad actors often turn to publishing and distributing malware via apps as a lucrative channel for generating illegal and/or unethical profits. Android takes a multi-layered […]
GCP – Empowering women with cloud and AI skills: Register for the Google Launchpad for Women series
Last year, we offered our first ever “Google Launchpad for Women” series to empower women within our customer ecosystem to grow their cloud and AI skills. The response from our customers has been tremendous: more than 11,000 women across a breadth of roles – sales, leadership, marketing, finance, and more have completed previous editions of […]
AWS – Amazon ECS Service Connect is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) launches its networking capability called ECS Service Connect in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. Amazon ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service that makes it easier for you to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications. With ECS Service Connect, customers can easily configure service […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker AI is now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia)
Starting today, you can build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models in Asia Pacific (Malaysia). Amazon SageMaker AI is a fully managed platform that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models quickly. SageMaker AI removes the heavy lifting from each step of the […]
AWS – Amazon DocumentDB now offers one-click connectivity with CloudShell
Starting today, you can connect to your Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) clusters with a single click through AWS CloudShell directly from the AWS Management Console. This new feature allows our customers to easily connect to their DocumentDB clusters directly from their browser, without requiring any local setup. One-click connectivity with Cloudshell automatically configures VPCs, […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are now available in Europe (Zurich)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6in and M6idn instances are available in AWS Europe (Zurich) region. These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, for 2x more network bandwidth over comparable fifth-generation instances. Customers […]
AWS – Amazon Q Business introduces orchestration for user query management
Amazon Q Business, the generative AI-powered assistant for finding information, gaining insight, and taking action at work, introduced an intelligent orchestration feature that simplifies conversational experience by understanding user queries, and automatically directing the queries to the right data sources and plugins to generate relevant responses. Earlier, users would need to manually switch between different […]
AWS – AWS Step Functions now supports 100,000 state machines and activities per AWS account
AWS Step Functions has increased the default quota for the maximum number of registered state machines and activities from 10,000 to 100,000. This tenfold increase enables customers to create and manage significantly more workflows within a single AWS account, providing greater scalability and flexibility. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating […]