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GCP – Google is a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: AI Foundation Models for Language, Q2 2024
Today, we are excited to announce that Google is a Leader in The 2024 Forrester Wave™: AI Foundation Models for Language, Q2 2024, receiving the highest scores of all vendors evaluated in the Current Offering and Strategy categories. “Gemini is uniquely differentiated in the market especially in multimodality and context length while also ensuring interconnectivity […]
GCP – Phishing for Gold: Cyber Threats Facing the 2024 Paris Olympics
Written by: Michelle Cantos, Jamie Collier Executive Summary Mandiant assesses with high confidence that the Paris Olympics faces an elevated risk of cyber threat activity, including cyber espionage, disruptive and destructive operations, financially-motivated activity, hacktivism, and information operations. Olympics-related cyber threats could realistically impact various targets including event organizers and sponsors, ticketing systems, Paris […]
GCP – ChromeOS + Cameyo: Reimagining Legacy Apps for the Modern Enterprise
Today, we’re thrilled to announce that the Cameyo team is joining Google. This exciting development marks a significant milestone in our mission to make legacy applications accessible and easy to manage within the ChromeOS ecosystem. By bringing the Cameyo team’s expertise in-house, we are doubling down on our commitment to delivering a streamlined experience for […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EMR Serverless Streaming jobs for continuous processing on streaming data
Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple for data engineers and data scientists to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. We are excited to announce a new streaming job mode on Amazon EMR Serverless, enabling you to continuously analyze and […]
AWS – Amazon API Gateway integration timeout limit increase beyond 29 seconds
Amazon API Gateway now enables customers to increase their integration timeout beyond the prior limit of 29 seconds. This setting represents the maximum amount of time API Gateway will wait for a response from the integration to complete. You can raise the integration timeout to greater than 29 seconds for Regional REST APIs and private […]
AWS – Amazon Route 53 Profiles now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Starting today, you can enable Route 53 Profiles in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions to define a standard DNS configuration, in the form of a Profile, that may include Route 53 private hosted zone (PHZ) associations, Route 53 Resolver rules, and Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall rule groups, and apply this […]
AWS – Amazon Titan Text Embeddings V2 now available for use with Bedrock Knowledge Bases
Amazon Titan Text Embeddings V2, a new embeddings model in the Amazon Titan family of models, is now available for use with Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock. Using Titan Text Embeddings V2, customers can embed their data into a vector database and use it to retrieve relevant information for tasks such as questions and answers, […]
AWS – Amazon Connect agent workspace launches refreshed look and feel
The Amazon Connect agent workspace now features an updated user interface to improve productivity and focus for your agents. The new user interface is designed to be more intuitive, highly responsive, and increase visual consistency across capabilities, providing your agents with a streamlined user experience. With this launch, you can also easily build and embed […]
AWS – AWS DMS now supports Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL as a source
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) now supports Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL as a source by enhancing its existing PostgreSQL endpoint to handle Babelfish data types. Babelfish is a feature of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition that enables Aurora to understand commands from applications written for Microsoft SQL Server. AWS DMS supports both Full Load and […]
AWS – Amazon Q offers inline completions in the command line
Today, Amazon Q Developer launches AI-powered inline completions in the command line. As developers type in their command line, Q Developer will provide real-time AI-generated code suggestions. For instance, if a developer types `git`, Q Developer might suggestion `push origin main`. Developers can accept the suggestion by simply pressing the right arrow. To generate accurate […]