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GCP – Managing GenAI with Chrome Enterprise
GenAI is transforming the way people think about their work and giving businesses of all sizes an opportunity to re-imagine everything from their internal processes to the way they engage with their customers. These new capabilities are evolving at a rapid pace, and that creates new challenges for IT and security teams to protect their […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon Bedrock Agents Metrics in CloudWatch
Amazon Bedrock now offers comprehensive CloudWatch metrics support for Agents, enabling developers to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize their agent-based applications with greater visibility. This new capability provides detailed runtime metrics for both InvokeAgent and InvokeInlineAgent operations, including invocation counts, latency measurements, token usage, and error rates, helping customers better understand their agents’ performance in production […]
AWS – AWS CodeBuild adds support for new IAM condition keys
AWS CodeBuild now supports new IAM condition keys enabling granular access control on CodeBuild’s resource-modifying APIs. The new condition keys cover most of CodeBuild’s API request contexts, including network settings, credential configurations and compute restrictions. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready […]
AWS – DynamoDB local is now accessible on AWS CloudShell
Today, Amazon DynamoDB announces the general availability of DynamoDB local on AWS CloudShell, a browser-based, pre-authenticated shell that you can launch directly from the AWS Management Console. With DynamoDB local, you can develop and test your applications by running DynamoDB in your local development environment without incurring any costs. DynamoDB local works with your existing […]
AWS – Amazon Inspector enhances container security by mapping ECR images to running containers
Amazon Inspector now automatically maps your Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) images to specific tasks running on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) or pods running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), helping identify where the images are actively in use. This enables you to focus your limited resources on patching most critical […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Data Automation now supports generating custom insights from videos
Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) now supports video blueprints so you can generate tailored, accurate insights in a consistent format for your multimedia analysis applications. BDA automates the generation of insights from unstructured multimodal content such as documents, images, audio, and videos for your GenAI-powered applications. With video blueprints, you can customize insights — such […]
AWS – AWS CloudWatch Synthetics adds safe canary updates and automatic retries
Today, CloudWatch Synthetics, which allows monitoring of customer workflows on websites through periodically running custom code scripts, announces two new features: canary safe updates and automatic retries for failing canaries. The former allows you to test updates for your existing canaries before applying changes and the latter enables canaries to automatically attempt additional retries when […]
AWS – Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 4.0
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 4.0, bringing the latest advancements in cluster management and performance to MSK Provisioned. Kafka 4.0 introduces a new consumer rebalance protocol, now generally available, that helps ensure smoother and faster group rebalances. In addition, Kafka 4.0 requires brokers and tools to use […]
AWS – Amazon MSK is now available in Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) Regions
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now available in Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) regions. Customers can create Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters in these regions starting today. Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect that makes it easier for you to build and run applications […]
GCP – Oviva builds AI meal logging app with Google Cloud
Monitoring food intake is a key factor in maintaining a balanced diet, but traditional documentation can be cumbersome and ineffective. Oviva set out to change this. That’s why we developed an AI-powered meal logging app that simplifies the meal logging process and enhances the quality of feedback people receive, helping them make better dietary decisions. […]