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AWS – Announcing AWS Lambda’s support for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) for outbound connections in VPC
AWS Lambda now allows Lambda functions to access resources in dual-stack VPC (outbound connections) over IPv6, at no additional cost. With this launch, and Lambda’s support for public IPv6 endpoints (inbound connections) in 2021, Lambda enables you to scale your application without being constrained by the limited number of IPv4 addresses in your VPC, and to reduce […]

AWS – Amazon Textract launches Custom Queries to improve information extraction for business-specific documents
Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts printed text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. Today, we are pleased to announce Custom Queries, a new Amazon Textract feature that enables customers to adapt the Queries feature and improve extraction accuracy for their business-specific documents. Queries is a feature within the […]

AWS – Announcing new AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) availability and performance capabilities
AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) now supports Availability Zone DNS affinity, disable connection termination for unhealthy targets, and UDP connection termination by default. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Direct Connect announces new location in Seoul, South Korea
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Digital Realty ICN10 data center in Seoul, South Korea. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. Read […]

AWS – AWS Step Functions launches Optimized Integration for Amazon EMR Serverless
AWS Step Functions announces an Optimized Integration for Amazon EMR Serverless , adding support for the Run a Job (.sync) integration pattern with 6 EMR Serverless API Actions (CreateApplication, StartApplication, StopApplication, DeleteApplication, StartJobRun, and CancelJobRun). Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas expands content summarization and information extraction capabilities
Amazon SageMaker Canvas is a service for business analysts to generate machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) predictions without having to write a single line of code. As announced on October 5, customers can access and evaluate foundation models (FMs) to generate and summarize content. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Global Accelerator launches second Edge location in Vietnam
AWS Global Accelerator now supports traffic through a new AWS edge location in Hanoi in Vietnam. This is our second Global Accelerator edge location in Vietnam. With this addition, Global Accelerator is now available through 110 Points of Presence globally and supports application endpoints in 28 AWS Regions. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally Available: Azure Dedicated Host – Resize
Resize capability for Azure dedicated hosts is now generally available Read More for the details.

GCP – Shared fate: Protecting customers with generative AI indemnification
To our customers: At Google Cloud, we put your interests first. This means that when you choose to work with us, we become partners on a journey of shared innovation, shared support, and shared fate. We are committed to helping you evolve as technology advances, drawing on our depth of experience to ensure you can […]
GCP – Build AI/ML and generative AI applications in Python with BigQuery DataFrames
Trends in the data space such as generative AI, distributed storage systems, unstructured data formats, MLOps, and the sheer size of datasets are making it necessary to expand beyond the SQL language to truly analyze and understand your data. To provide users with more flexibility of coding languages, we announced BigQuery DataFrames at Next ‘23. […]