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GCP – Enhancing LLM quality and interpretability with the Vertex Gen AI Evaluation Service
Developers harnessing the power of large language models (LLMs) often encounter two key hurdles: managing the inherent randomness of their output and addressing their occasional tendency to generate factually incorrect information. Somewhat like rolling dice, LLMs offer a touch of unpredictability, generating different responses even when given the same prompt. While this randomness can fuel […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Fleet and EC2 Auto Scaling groups now supports aliases for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
EC2 Fleet and EC2 Auto Scaling group now support using custom identifiers to reference Amazon Machine Images (AMI) in Auto Scaling groups and EC2 Fleet launch requests configured to choose from a diversified list of instance types. You can create these identifiers using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store and use the parameters to reference your […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides downloadable screen recordings
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides the ability to download screen recordings from the contact details page in the Amazon Connect UI, for customers that use Contact Lens screen recording. With this launch, managers can evaluate contact quality and agent performance via offline reviews, as well as review downloaded screen recordings with agents for coaching. […]
AWS – Build your event-driven application using AWS CloudFormation Git sync status changes
AWS CloudFormation Git sync now publishes sync status changes as events to Amazon Eventbridge. With this launch, you can subscribe to new deployment sync events that shows your Git repositories or resource sync status changes. You can also get instant notification and build on top of it to further automate your GitOps workflow. With EventBridge, […]
AWS – Introducing AWS End User Messaging
Today, we announce AWS End User Messaging as the new name for Amazon Pinpoint’s SMS, MMS, push, and text to voice messaging capabilities. We are making this change to simplify how you manage end user communications across your applications and other AWS services. AWS End User Messaging provides developers with a scalable and cost-effective messaging […]
AWS – Amazon Q Business launches support for cross-region AWS IAM Identity Center access
Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, generative-AI powered assistant that enhances workforce productivity by answering questions, providing summaries, generating content, and completing tasks based on customer’s enterprise data. AWS IAM Identity Center helps set up and centrally manage workforce user identity and their access to their AWS accounts and applications. Q Business is integrated […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports SRT caller input
You can now use AWS Elemental MediaLive to receive sources using SRT caller. Secure Reliable Transport (SRT), an open source video transport protocol supported by the SRT Alliance, helps deliver video reliably across the internet. SRT has two primary connection modes: caller and listener. With SRT caller input support in MediaLive you can add inputs […]
AWS – Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ version 5.18
Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ minor version 5.18, which introduces several improvements and fixes compared to the previous version of ActiveMQ supported by Amazon MQ. These enhancements include initial support for the JMS 2.0 simplified APIs, such as JMSContext, JMSProducer, and JMSConsumer, as well as the implementation of methods for XA transactions. Starting from ActiveMQ […]
GCP – Announcing IAM group authentication in Cloud SQL
Managing and auditing data access can be very complex at scale, in particular, for a fleet of databases with a myriad of users. Today, we’re launching Identity and Access Management (IAM) group authentication in Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and Cloud SQL for MySQL, simplifying user management and database authentication. Now, developers, database administrators, and security […]
GCP – Maxxton improves app performance up to 60% with Bare Metal for Oracle on Google Cloud
Editor’s Note: Maxxton — a combined central reservation and property management system property management system services provider for the hospitality industry — is in the process of modernizing its legacy software to cope with the massive amount of data it needs to ingest and analyze every day. By migrating to Bare Metal Solution for Oracle […]