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AWS – AWS Transfer Family launches support for IPv6 endpoints
AWS Transfer Family announces Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) support for server endpoints and service APIs. This enhancement enables both IPv6 and IPv4 clients to communicate with Transfer Family SFTP, FTPS, FTP, and AS2 server endpoints. You can also use IPv6 while accessing the Transfer Family service APIs. AWS Transfer Family offers fully managed support […]
AWS – Citations API and PDF support for Claude models now in Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock introduces Citations API and PDF support for Anthropic’s Claude Models that empower developers to build more trustworthy AI applications and expand document processing capabilities. The Citations API allows Claude to ground its answers in source documents, providing detailed references to the exact sentences and passages used to generate responses. This leads to more […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB global tables with multi-Region strong consistency is now generally available
Starting today, Amazon DynamoDB global tables now supports multi-Region strong consistency. DynamoDB global tables is a fully managed, serverless, multi-Region, and multi-active database used by tens of thousands of customers. With this new capability, you can now build highly available multi-Region applications with a recovery point objective (RPO) of zero, achieving the highest level of […]
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache now supports AWS PrivateLink in eight additional AWS Regions
You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access Amazon ElastiCache from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) in Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Middle East (UAE), Mexico (Central), Israel (Tel Aviv), Canada West (Calgary) and Europe (Zurich) Regions. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises […]
AWS – Now generally available: Amazon EC2 C8gn instance
Today, AWS announces the general availability of the new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gn instances, powered by the latest-generation AWS Graviton4 processors. The new instances provide up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 C7gn instances. Amazon EC2 C8gn instances feature the latest 6th generation AWS Nitro Cards, and offer up […]
AWS – Finch expands support to Ubuntu, streamlining container development across platforms
Today, AWS announced Ubuntu support for Finch, an open source command line tool that allows developers to build, run, and publish Linux containers. Finch simplifies container development by bundling a minimal native client with a curated selection of open-source components. With the addition of Ubuntu support, Finch now provides a consistent and streamlined container development […]
AWS – AWS Config rules add classifications from AWS Control Tower Control Catalog
Today, AWS Config rules adds classification information from AWS Control Tower Control Catalog to make it easier for you to identify how Config rules map to different compliance frameworks such as CIS-v8.0, FedRAMP-r4, and NIST-CSF-v1.1. AWS Config rules help you automatically evaluate your AWS resource configurations for desired settings, enabling you to assess, audit, and […]
AWS – Amazon Textract announces accuracy and feature updates to DetectDocumentText and AnalyzeDocument APIs
Amazon Textract is a managed machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. We regularly improve the underlying machine learning models based on customer feedback to provide even better accuracy. Today, we are pleased to announce feature and accuracy updates to the text detection model used in Textract […]
GCP – How to build Web3 AI agents with Google Cloud
For over two decades, Google has been a pioneer in AI, conducting groundwork that has shaped the industry. Concurrently, in the Web3 space, Google focuses on empowering the developer community by providing public goods resources like BigQuery blockchain datasets and testnet faucets, as well as the cloud infrastructure builders will need to bring their decentralized […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon EBS gp3 volumes for second-generation AWS Outposts racks
You can now use Amazon EBS General Purpose SSD volumes (gp3) volumes with the second-generation AWS Outposts racks for your workloads that require local data processing and data residency. The latest generation of gp3 enables you to provision performance independently of storage capacity, delivering a baseline performance of 3,000 IOPS and 125 MB/s at any […]