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GCP – Datastream’s SQL Server source is generally available
Have you ever wished it were easier to replicate your SQL Server databases? To address this challenge, today, we are announcing the general availability (GA) of Datastream’s SQL Server source. This means you can now easily and reliably replicate data from your SQL Server databases to BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and other Google Cloud destinations, unlocking […]
GCP – Deckmatch powers insights for venture capitalists with Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL
Editor’s note: Deckmatch uses artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics to transform investment deal flow for venture capitalists. By storing extensive, in-depth company data in Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, Deckmatch can quickly provide investors with comprehensive insights on startups and their competition. Eliminating the manual effort required to generate this data frees investors to focus […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches search API for agent status
Amazon Connect now provides an API to search an agent status by name, ID, tag, or other criteria. Agent statuses are used in the Contact Control Panel (CCP) to indicate if an agent is available to handle contacts or not, for example because they are away for lunch or in training. With this new API, […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches search API for hierarchy groups
Amazon Connect now provides an API to search for hierarchy groups by name, group ID, tag, or other criteria. Hierarchy groups describe your organization’s structure, and are used for reporting and access control. With this new API, you can now answer questions such as, “How many teams operate in the northwest region?” and, “What groups […]
AWS – Productionize Fine-tuned Foundation Models from SageMaker Canvas
Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports deploying fine-tuned Foundation Models (FMs) to SageMaker real-time inference endpoints, allowing you to bring generative AI capabilities into production and consume outside the Canvas workspace. SageMaker Canvas is a no-code workspace that enables analysts and citizen data scientists to generate accurate ML predictions and use generative AI capabilities. SageMaker Canvas […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MQ for ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ in five new regions
AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MQ for ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Israel (Tel Aviv) regions, enabling you to build serverless applications with Lambda functions that are invoked based on messages posted to Amazon MQ message brokers. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Logs Infrequent Access log class available in GovCloud Regions
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Infrequent Access (Logs IA), a log class for cost-effectively consolidating all your logs natively on AWS, is now available in all GovCloud regions. Logs IA helps improve visibility into your overall application health with a subset of CloudWatch Logs’ capabilities including managed ingestion, cross-account log analytics, and encryption with a lower per […]
AWS – Simplify Your AWS Marketplace Catalog API (CAPI) Integration with Strongly-Typed API Schemas
We’re excited to announce the introduction of a GitHub library that will host the schemas for the DetailsDocument used in StartChangeSet, DescribeChangeSet, and DescribeEntity APIs in Catalog API (CAPI). This new feature aims to simplify the integration process for developers working with the Catalog API. Today, as a developer in seller/partner organizations, you need to […]
GCP – How to build user authentication into your gen AI app-accessing database
Generative AI agents introduce immense potential to transform enterprise workspaces. Enterprises from almost every industry are exploring the possibilities of generative AI, adopting AI agents for purposes ranging from internal productivity to customer-facing support. However, while these AI agents can efficiently interact with data already in your databases to provide summaries, answer complex questions, and […]
GCP – Blazing-fast Cloud Storage uploads and downloads with client libraries
Data-intensive applications such as analytics and AI/ML are some of the fastest growing workloads on Google Cloud Storage, but ensuring high throughput for these workloads can be a challenge. Cloud Storage client library transfer manager helps maximize throughput for your workloads, by adding functionality to key client libraries to parallelize uploads and downloads. The new […]