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AWS – AWS B2B Data Interchange now supports all X12 transaction sets
AWS B2B Data Interchange now supports all X12 transactions for versions 4010, 4030, 4050, 4060, and 5010. Versions 4050 and 4060 are new to the service and were not previously available. Each of these transactions and versions are supported for both inbound and outbound use cases, enabling you to migrate a greater number of your […]
AWS – Announcing auto migration of EC2 databases to Amazon RDS using AWS Database Migration Service
AWS announces a “1-click move to managed” feature for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) that enables you to easily and seamlessly migrate your self-managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MariaDB databases to an equivalent Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora database. Using the 1-click move to managed functionality on the Amazon RDS console, you can migrate your […]
AWS – Bottlerocket announces new AMIs that are preconfigured to use FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic modules
Today, AWS has announced new AMIs for Bottlerocket that are preconfigured to use FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic modules, including the Amazon Linux 2023 Kernel Crypto API and AWS-LC. Bottlerocket is a Linux-based operating system purpose-built for running containers, with a focus on security, minimal footprint, and safe updates. With these FIPS-enabled Bottlerocket AMIs, the host […]
AWS – AWS re:Post Private is now integrated with Amazon Bedrock to offer contextual knowledge to organizations
Today, AWS re:Post Private announces its integration with Amazon Bedrock, ushering in a new era of contextualized knowledge management for customer organizations. This feature transforms traditional organizational knowledge practices into a dynamic system of collaborative intelligence, where human expertise and AI capabilities complement each other to build collective wisdom. At the heart of this integration […]
AWS – AWS Compute Optimizer now supports idle resource recommendation
Today, AWS announces that AWS Compute Optimizer now supports recommendations to help you identify idle AWS resources. With this new recommendation type, you will be able to identify resources that are un-used and may be candidates for turning off or deleting, resulting in cost savings. With the new idle resource recommendation, you will be able […]
GCP – Announcing new updates to Cloud Translation AI, now covering 189 languages
Your next big customer doesn’t speak your language. In fact, 40% of global consumers won’t even consider buying from websites not in their native tongue. With 51.6% of internet users speaking languages other than English, you’re potentially missing half your market. Until now, enterprises faced an impossible choice in addressing translation use cases. They had […]
GCP – Build, deploy, and promote AI agents through Google Cloud’s AI agent ecosystem
We’ve seen a sharp rise in demand from enterprises that want to use AI agents to automate complex tasks, personalize customer experiences, and increase operational efficiency. Today, we’re announcing a Google Cloud AI agent ecosystem program to help partners build and co-innovate AI agents with technical and go-to-market resources from Google Cloud. We’re also launching […]
AWS – CloudWatch RUM now supports percentile aggregations and simplified troubleshooting with web vitals metrics
CloudWatch RUM, which captures real-time data on web application performance and user interactions, helping you quickly detect and resolve issues impacting the user experience, now supports percentile aggregation of web vital metrics and simplified events based troubleshooting directly from the web vitals anomaly. Google uses the 75th percentile (p75) of a web page’s Core Web […]
AWS – Disk-optimized vector engine now available on the Amazon OpenSearch Service
Amazon OpenSearch’s vector engine can now run modern search applications at a third of the cost on OpenSearch 2.17 domains. When you configure a k-NN (vector) index for disk mode, it becomes optimized for operating in a low memory environment. With disk mode on, the index is compressed using techniques like binary quantization and search […]
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports adding Regions to existing Keyspaces
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that offers 99.999% availability. Today, Amazon Keyspaces added the capability to add Regions to existing Keyspaces. With this launch, you can convert an existing single-Region Keyspace to a multi-Region Keyspace or add a new Region to an […]