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GCP – Digital Manager Guru processes over 24M transactions with Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus
Editor’s note: Digital Manager Guru provides an online sales platform for small- and medium-sized businesses, integrating all the tools they need to create seamless sales experiences. The company chose Google Cloud managed databases for their reliability, along with other powerful Google Cloud products and services, to help build its architecture. Today, Digital Manager Guru can […]

GCP – Unlocking Medical Insights: Secure AI Analyzes Data
With the widespread adoption of wearable fitness devices and health trackers, biomedical researchers face the challenge of how to glean insights from all this information and translate them efficiently into clinical practice. The latest artificial intelligence (AI) tools and cloud computing can accelerate the collection and analysis of insights by processing massive amounts of data […]

AWS – Amazon MWAA now available in nine additional Regions
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) is now available in nine new AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Middle East (UAE), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Canada West (Calgary), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Asia Pacific (Osaka). Amazon MWAA is a managed service for Apache Airflow that lets you use the […]

AWS – AWS License Manager now integrates with Red Hat Subscription Manager
AWS License Manager now integrates with Red Hat Subscription Manager (RHSM) to provide greater insight into use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) on Amazon EC2. With instance and subscription data from RHSM accessible directly in License Manager, you can better manage cost optimization and compliance of your RHEL usage on AWS. You can already […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches a 20x higher limit for SPICE JOIN
Amazon QuickSight is excited to announce an increase in the table size limit for joining SPICE datasets from 1GB to 20GB. Previously, when customers prepared their data and joined tables from various sources, including SPICE, the combined secondary tables had to be less than 1GB. This limitation often forced QuickSight customers to find workarounds in […]

AWS – Amazon Cognito is now available in Canada West (Calgary) Region
Starting today, customers can use Amazon Cognito in Canada West (Calgary) Region. Cognito makes it easy to add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. The service scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via […]

AWS – Amazon Cognito is now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region
Starting today, customers can use Amazon Cognito in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. Cognito makes it easy to add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. The service scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers […]

AWS – AWS Backup now supports Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots Archive in backup policies
Today, AWS Backup announces support for Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive in backup policies, allowing customers to automatically move Amazon EBS Snapshots created by AWS Backup to Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive at the AWS Organizations level. Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive is low-cost, long-term storage tier meant for your rarely-accessed snapshots that do not need frequent retrieval. […]

AWS – Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock can now detect hallucinations & safeguard apps using any FM
Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock enables customers to implement safeguards based on their application requirements and responsible AI policies. Today, guardrails adds contextual grounding checks and introduces a new ApplyGuardrail API to build trustworthy generative AI applications using any foundation model (FM). Customers rely on the inherent capabilities of the FMs to generate grounded (credible) responses […]
AWS – Amazon Q Developer is now available in SageMaker Studio
Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed machine learning service, announces the general availability of Amazon Q Developer in SageMaker Studio. SageMaker Studio customers now get generative AI assistance powered by Q Developer right within their JupyterLab Integrated Development Environment (IDE). With Q Developer, data scientists and ML engineers can access expert guidance on SageMaker features, code […]