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GCP – Agent Factory Recap: Securing AI Agents in Production
In our latest episode of the Agent Factory, we move beyond the hype and tackle a critical topic for anyone building production-ready AI agents: security. We’re not talking about theoretical “what-ifs” but real attack vectors that are happening right now, with real money being lost. We dove into the current threat landscape and laid out […]
AWS – Now generally available: AWS RTB Fabric for real-time bidding workloads
Today, AWS announces RTB Fabric, a fully managed service that helps you connect with your AdTech partners such as Amazon Ads, GumGum, Kargo, MobileFuse, Sovrn, TripleLift, Viant, Yieldmo, and more in three steps while delivering single-digit millisecond latency through a private, high-performance network environment. RTB Fabric reduces standard cloud networking costs by up to 80% […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now supports threaded views and includes conversation history in agent replies
Amazon Connect now includes the conversation history in agent replies and introduces threaded views of email exchanges, making it easier for both agents and customers to maintain context and continuity across interactions. This enhancement provides a more natural and familiar email experience for both agents and customers. Amazon Connect Email is available in the US […]
AWS – AWS Secret-West Region is now available
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce the launch of our second Secret Region – AWS Secret-West. With this launch, AWS now offers two regions capable of operating mission-critical workloads at the Secret U.S. security classification level. AWS Secret-West places cloud resources in closer proximity to users and mission in the western U.S., delivering […]
GCP – Google Cloud and AMD at STAC Summit NYC: H4D VMs for Finance
In capital markets, the race for low latency and high performance is relentless. That’s why Google Cloud is partnering with AMD at the premier STAC Summit NYC on Tuesday, October 28th! We’re joining forces to demonstrate how our combined innovations are tackling the most demanding workloads in the financial services industry, from real-time risk analysis […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch introduces interactive incident reporting
Amazon CloudWatch now offers interactive incident report generation, enabling customers to create comprehensive post-incident analysis reports in minutes. The new capability, available within CloudWatch investigations, automatically gathers and correlates your telemetry data, as well as your input and any actions taken during an investigation, and produces a streamlined incident report. Using the new feature you […]
AWS – Amazon U7i instances now available in AWS US East (Ohio) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 6TB of memory (u7i-6tb.112xlarge) are now available in the US East (Ohio) region. U7i-6tb instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-6tb instances offer 6TB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction […]
GCP – How Model Armor can help protect your AI apps from prompt injections and jailbreaks
As AI continues to rapidly develop, it’s crucial that IT teams address the business and organizational risks posed by two common threats: prompt injection and jailbreaking. Earlier this year we introduced Model Armor, a model-agnostic advanced screening solution that can help safeguard gen AI prompts and responses, and agent interactions. Model Armor offers a comprehensive […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports bundled multi-check canaries
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics introduces multi-check blueprints, enabling customers to create comprehensive synthetic tests using simple JSON configuration files. This new feature addresses the challenge many customers face when developing custom scripts for basic endpoint monitoring, which often lack the depth needed for thorough synthetic testing across various check types like HTTP endpoints with different authentication […]
AWS – Amazon DCV releases version 2025.0 with enhanced keyboard handling and WebAuthn support
AWS announces Amazon DCV 2025.0, the latest version of the high-performance remote display protocol that enables customers to securely access remote desktops and application sessions. This release focuses on enhancing user productivity and security while expanding platform compatibility for diverse use cases. Amazon DCV 2025.0 includes the following key features and improvements: Enhanced WebAuthn redirection […]