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GCP – HomeToGo: Helping customers find their dream vacation home with generative AI
The annual vacation: whether it’s a weekend at the beach or a far-flung adventure, choosing the right trip is one of the most significant decisions many people make all year. At HomeToGo, it’s important to us that travelers find exactly the right accommodation for their needs. As the SaaS-enabled marketplace with the world’s largest selection […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in three additional regions
Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), and Middle East (UAE) regions. Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling elastically scales query processing power to provide consistently fast performance for hundreds of concurrent queries. Concurrency Scaling resources are added to your Redshift cluster transparently in seconds, as concurrency increases, to process […]
AWS – Amazon RDS announces integration with AWS Secrets Manager in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon RDS now supports integration with AWS Secrets Manager in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions to streamline how you manage your master user password for your RDS database instances. With this feature, RDS fully manages the master user password and stores it in AWS Secrets Manager whenever your RDS database instances are created, modified, or […]
AWS – AWS B2B Data Interchange announces automated 999 acknowledgements for healthcare transactions
AWS B2B Data Interchange now automatically generates 999 functional acknowledgements to confirm receipt of individual X12 electronic data interchange (EDI) healthcare transactions and to report errors. This launch helps you maintain HIPAA compliance while automating delivery of 999 acknowledgements to trading partners that require them. This launch adds to AWS B2B Data Interchange’s existing support […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now available in Canada (Central) region
We are excited to announce the availability of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless in the Canada (Central) region. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. OpenSearch Serverless automatically provisions and scales resources to provide consistently fast data […]
AWS – Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now offers observability logs
Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capability that allows you to connect foundation models (FMs) to internal company data sources to deliver relevant and accurate responses. Knowledge Bases now supports observability, offering log delivery choice through CloudWatch, S3 buckets, and Firehose streams. This capability provides enhanced visibility and timely […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL supports new minor version 8.0.37
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor version 8.0.37. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community. Learn more about the […]
GCP – Square Enix’s journey of building an AI-driven Customer Data Platform
Editor’s note: In this post, we’ll learn from Japanese video game and entertainment company Square Enix about its journey building a customer data platform with Google Cloud to enhance its first-party data strategy by collecting and connecting its marketing, player, and game data. In today’s data-driven world, understanding who your customers are is more critical […]
GCP – GKE under the hood: What’s new with Cluster Autoscaler
In the world of cloud infrastructure, sometimes the most impactful features are the ones you never have to think about. When it comes to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), we have a long history of quietly innovating behind the scenes, optimizing the invisible gears that keep your clusters running smoothly. These enhancements might not always grab […]
GCP – Google is a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms
We are thrilled to share that Gartner® has named Google a Leader in the 2024 Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and Business Intelligence. We believe this is a testament to our strategy of delivering innovative business intelligence offerings across ad-hoc, governed, and embedded analytics, as well as our vision for integrating AI to enable our customers […]