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AWS – Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports binary vector embeddings to build RAG applications
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports binary vector embeddings for building Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications. This feature is available with Titan Text Embeddings V2 model and Cohere Embed models. Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases offers fully-managed RAG workflows to create highly accurate, low latency, secure and customizable retrieval-augmented-generation (RAG) applications by incorporating contextual information from […]
AWS – Amazon Cognito now supports passwordless authentication for low-friction and secure logins
Amazon Cognito now allows you to secure user access to your applications with passwordless authentication, including sign-in with passkeys, email, and text message. Passkeys are based on FIDO standards and use public key cryptography, which enables strong, phishing-resistant authentication. With passwordless authentication, you can reduce the friction associated with traditional password-based authentication and thus simplify […]
AWS – Cross-zone enabled Application Load Balancer now supports zonal shift and zonal autoshift
AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) now supports Amazon Application Recovery Controller’s zonal shift and zonal autoshift features on load balancers that are enabled across zones. Zonal shift allows you to quickly shift traffic away from an impaired Availability Zone (AZ) and recover from events such as bad application deployment and gray failures. Zonal autoshift safely […]
AWS – Amazon Cognito introduces Managed Login to support rich branding for end user journeys
Amazon Cognito introduces Managed Login, a fully-managed, hosted sign-in and sign-up experience that customers can personalize to align with their company or application branding. Amazon Cognito provides millions of users with secure, scalable, and customizable sign-up and sign-in experiences. With Managed Login, Cognito customers can now use its no-code visual editor to customize the look […]
AWS – Announcing new feature tiers: Essentials and Plus for Amazon Cognito
Amazon Cognito launches new user pool feature tiers: Essentials and Plus. The Essentials tier offers comprehensive and flexible user authentication and access control features, allowing customers to implement secure, scalable, and customized sign-up and sign-in experiences for their application within minutes. It supports password-based log-in, multi-factor authentication (email, SMS, TOTP), and log-in with social identity […]
GCP – Create a self-escalating chatbot in Conversational Agents using Webhook and Generators
As conversational AI becomes a core part of the user experience, it’s crucial for application developers to build chatbots that not only provide accurate information, but also know the right time to escalate to a human agent. This blog post will show you how to create a self-escalating chatbot using Google Cloud’s generative AI solutions […]
GCP – Build an AI agent for trip planning with Gemini 1.5 Pro: A step-by-step guide
Gemini 1.5 Pro is creating new possibilities for developers to build AI agents that streamline the customer experience. In this post, we’ll focus on a practical application that has emerged in the travel industry – building an AI-powered trip planning agent. You’ll learn how to connect your agent to external data sources like event APIs, […]
GCP – Boost your Continuous Delivery pipeline with Generative AI
In the domain of software development, AI-driven assistance is emerging as a transformative force to enhance developer experience and productivity and ultimately optimize overall software delivery performance. Many organizations started to leverage AI-based assistants, such as Gemini Code Assist, in developer IDEs to support them in solving more difficult problems, understanding unfamiliar code, generating test […]
GCP – How Commerzbank is transforming financial advisory workflows with gen AI
In today’s fast-paced financial landscape, staying competitive requires embracing innovation and efficiency. Commerzbank, a leading German bank, recognized the potential to streamline its internal workflows, particularly within its financial advisory division for corporate clients. Given regulatory requirements, sales advisors need to carefully document investment suggestions in detailed protocols. It’s a highly manual and time consuming […]
GCP – Seeing Through a GLASSBRIDGE: Understanding the Digital Marketing Ecosystem Spreading Pro-PRC Influence Operations
Written by: Vanessa Molter Special thanks to Mandiant’s Ryan Serabian for his contributions to this analysis. This blog post details GLASSBRIDGE—an umbrella group of four different companies that operate networks of inauthentic news sites and newswire services tracked by the Google Threat Intelligence Group (consisting of Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Mandiant). Collectively these […]