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AWS – Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces an increase in service quota limits
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces an increase in default service quota limits enabling you to scale your generative AI applications for higher traffic. Bedrock Guardrails provides configurable safeguards to filter undesirable and harmful content across different categories and prompt attacks, topic filters to define and disallow specific topics, sensitive information filters to redact personally identifiable information […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Spatial Patch Bundle for January 2025 Release Update
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Spatial Patch Bundle (SPB) for the January 2025 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database version 19c. This update delivers important fixes for Oracle Spatial and Graph functionality, helping ensure reliable and optimal performance for your spatial operations. You can now create new DB instances […]
AWS – Amazon Location Service now supports AWS PrivateLink
We are excited to announce that Amazon Location Service now supports AWS PrivateLink integration, enabling customers to establish private connectivity between their VPCs and Amazon Location Service without data ever traversing the public internet. With this new capability, customers can now access Amazon Location Service APIs through private IP addresses within their VPC, significantly enhancing […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Europe (Zurich) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 3TiB of memory (u-3tb1.56xlarge) is available in the Europe (Zurich) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On-Demand (OD) and Savings Plan purchase options. Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart […]
GCP – How we got to 100 million cells in our global Li-ion rack battery fleet
When it comes to data center power systems, batteries play an important role. The applications that run in our data centers require nearly continuous uptime. And while utility power is highly reliable, power outages are unavoidable. When an outage happens, batteries can supply short-duration power, allowing servers to operate continuously when the facility switches between […]
GCP – Enhancing AlloyDB vector search with inline filtering and enterprise observability
Many specialized vector databases today require you to create complex pipelines and applications in order to get the data you need. AlloyDB for PostgreSQL offers Google Research’s, state-of-the-art vector search index, ScaNN, enabling you to optimize the end-to-end retrieval of the most fresh, relevant data with a single SQL statement. Today, we are introducing a […]
GCP – Get Google Cloud certified in 2025—and see why the latest research says it matters
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AWS – CloudWatch Database Insights adds support for RDS databases
CloudWatch Database Insights announces support of databases hosted on Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). Database Insights is a database observability solution that provides a curated experience designed for DevOps engineers, application developers, and database administrators (DBAs) to expedite database troubleshooting and gain a holistic view into their database fleet health. Database Insights consolidates logs and […]
GCP – Announcing Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Anthropic’s first hybrid reasoning model, is available on Vertex AI
Today, we’re announcing Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Anthropic’s most intelligent model to date and the first hybrid reasoning model on the market, is available in preview on Vertex AI Model Garden. Claude 3.7 Sonnet can produce quick responses or extended, step-by-step thinking that is made visible to the user. Claude 3.7 Sonnet includes improvements in coding, […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C7gd instances are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. These Graviton3-based instances with DDR5 memory are built on the AWS Nitro System and are a great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low […]