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AWS – AWS IoT now offers event-based logging to help optimize observability costs
AWS IoT now supports event-based logging, a new capability that helps developers reduce Amazon CloudWatch costs while improving log management efficiency. This feature enables targeted logging for individual event with customizable log levels and Amazon CloudWatch log group destinations. With Event-Based Logging, you can set different log levels for different types of IoT events based […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift ODBC 2.x Driver now supports Apple macOS
Amazon Redshift ODBC 2.x driver now supports Apple macOS, expanding platform compatibility for developers and analysts. This enhancement allows Apple macOS users to connect to Amazon Redshift clusters using the latest Amazon Redshift ODBC 2.x driver version. You can use an ODBC connection to connect to your Amazon Redshift cluster from many third-party SQL client […]
AWS – Amazon ECR now supports creating repositories on push
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now supports automatic repository creation on image push. This new capability simplifies container workflows by having ECR automatically create repositories if they don’t exist when an image is pushed, without customers having to pre-create repositories before pushing container images. Now when customers push images, ECR will automatically create repositories according […]
AWS – Announcing Cost Allocation Tags support for Account Tags
AWS announces Cost Allocation tags support for account tags across AWS Cost Management products, enabling customers with multiple member accounts to utilize their existing AWS Organizations account tags directly in cost management tools. Account tags are applied at the account level in AWS Organizations and automatically apply to all metered usage within tagged accounts, eliminating […]
AWS – Timestream for InfluxDB Now Supports Restart API Calls
Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now offers a restart API for both InfluxDB versions 2 and 3. This new capability enables customers to trigger system restarts on their database instances directly through the AWS Management Console, API, or CLI, to streamline operational management of their time-series database environments. With the restart API, customers can perform resilience […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Data Automation launches instruction optimization for your document blueprints
Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) now supports blueprint instruction optimization, enabling you to improve the accuracy of your custom field extraction using just a few example document assets with ground truth labels. BDA automates the generation of insights from unstructured multimodal content such as documents, images, audio, and videos for your GenAI-powered applications. Blueprint instruction […]
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Microsoft Windows Server 2025
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now offers images powered by Microsoft Windows Server 2025, enabling customers to launch streaming instances with the latest features and enhancements from Microsoft’s newest server operating system. This update ensures your application streaming environment benefits from improved security, performance, and modern capabilities. With Windows Server 2025 support, you can deliver the Microsoft […]
GCP – Why Stochastic Rounding is Essential for Modern Generative AI
In computing’s early days of the 1940s, mathematicians discovered a flawed assumption about the behavior of round-off errors. Instead of canceling out, fixed-point arithmetic accumulated errors, compromising the accuracy of calculations. A few years later, “random round-off” was proposed, which would round up or down based on a random probability proportional to the remainder. In […]
GCP – From Code to Cloud: Three Labs for Deploying Your AI Agent
You’ve built a powerful AI agent. It works on your local machine, it’s intelligent, and it’s ready to meet the world. Now, how do you take this agent from a script on your laptop to a secure, scalable, and reliable application in production? On Google Cloud, there are multiple paths to deployment, each offering a […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 now supports Availability Zone ID across its APIs
Amazon EC2 now supports Availability Zone ID (AZ ID) parameter, enabling you to create and manage resources such as instances, volumes, and subnets using consistent zone identifiers. AZ IDs are consistent and static identifiers that represent the same physical location across all AWS accounts, helping you optimize resource placement. Prior to this launch, you had […]