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AWS – Amazon Polly expands Generative TTS engine with additional languages and region support
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of five highly expressive Amazon Polly Generative voices in Austrian German (Hannah), Irish English (Niamh), Brazilian Portuguese (Camila), Belgian Dutch (Lisa), and Korean (Seoyeon). This release follows our October launch of Netherlands Dutch (Laura) Generative voice, bringing our total Generative engine offering to thirty-one voices across […]
GCP – A new era: Supporting customers as a critical ICT third-party provider under EU DORA
At Google Cloud, we take our role in the financial ecosystem in Europe very seriously. We also firmly believe that digital operational resilience is vital to safeguarding and enhancing innovation. Today, we mark a significant milestone in our long-term commitment to the European financial services sector. The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) have officially designated Google […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift now supports Just-In-Time (JIT) ANALYZE for Apache Iceberg tables
Amazon Redshift today announces the general availability of Just-In-Time (JIT) ANALYZE capability for Apache Iceberg tables, enabling users to run high performance read and write analytics queries on Apache Iceberg tables within the Redshift data lake. The Apache Iceberg open table format has been used by many customers to simplify data processing on rapidly expanding […]
AWS – AWS announces flat-rate pricing plans for website delivery and security
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching flat-rate pricing plans with no overages for website delivery and security. The flat-rate plans, available with Amazon CloudFront, combine global content delivery with AWS WAF, DDoS protection, Amazon Route 53 DNS, Amazon CloudWatch Logs ingestion, and serverless edge compute into a simple monthly price with no overage charges. Each […]
AWS – Workshops now available in AWS Builder Center
AWS Builder Center now provides access to the catalog of AWS Workshops, offering step-by-step instructions crafted by AWS experts that explain how to deploy and use AWS services effectively. These workshops cover a wide range of AWS services and use cases, allowing builders to follow guided tutorials within their own AWS accounts. Workshops are designed […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift announces support for the SUPER data type in Databases with Case-Insensitive Collation
Amazon Redshift announces support for the SUPER data type in databases with case insensitive collation, enabling analytics on semi-structured and nested data in these databases. Using the SUPER data type with PartiQL in Amazon Redshift, you can perform advanced analytics that combine structured SQL data (such as string, numeric, and timestamp) with the semi-structured SUPER […]
AWS – Amazon MSK Replicator is now available in two additional AWS Regions
You can now use Amazon MSK Replicator to replicate streaming data across Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) clusters in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Regions. MSK Replicator is a feature of Amazon MSK that enables you to reliably replicate data across Amazon MSK clusters in different or the same AWS […]
AWS – Active threat defense now enabled by default in AWS Network Firewall
Starting today, AWS Network Firewall enables active threat defense by default in alert mode when you create new firewall policies in the AWS Management Console. Active threat defense provides automated, intelligence-driven protection against dynamic, ongoing threat activities observed across AWS infrastructure. With this default setting you get visibility into threat activity and indicator groups, types, […]
AWS – Amazon Route 53 DNS Firewall adds protection against Dictionary-based DGA attacks
Starting today, you can enable Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Advanced to monitor and block queries associated with Dictionary-based Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) attacks, that generate domain names by pseudo-randomly concatenating words from a predefined dictionary, creating human-readable strings to evade detection. Route 53 DNS Firewall Advanced is an offering on Route 53 DNS Firewall […]
GCP – A methodical approach to agent evaluation: Building a robust quality gate
AI is shifting from single-response models to complex, multi-step agents that can reason, use tools, and complete sophisticated tasks. This increased capability means you need an evolution in how you evaluate these systems. Metrics focused only on the final output are no longer enough for systems that make a sequence of decisions. A core challenge […]