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AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion adds support for ingesting data from self-managed sources
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now allows you to ingest data from self-managed OpenSearch, Elasticsearch and Apache Kafka clusters, eliminating the need to run and manage 3rd party tools like Logstash to migrate your data from self-managed sources into Amazon OpenSearch Service. Now you can seamlessly migrate or continuously replicate your data from all OpenSearch versions and […]
AWS – Announcing streamlined Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) funding and approval process in AWS Partner Central
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announces a new Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) template in AWS Partner Central with streamlined funding and approval processes to better support partner-led migrations. Eligible AWS Partners can leverage MAP to accelerate more customer migration opportunities, now scaling to support migrations up to $10M in annual recurring revenue, with a […]
GCP – How to evaluate the impact of LLMs on business outcomes
How can you make sure that you are getting the desired results from your large language models (LLMs)? How to pick the model that works best for your use case? Evaluating the output of an LLM is one of the most difficult challenges in working with Generative AI. While these models excel across a wide […]
GCP – How Cross-Cloud Network enables a multicloud Oracle-Google Cloud environment
In June, Google Cloud entered into an exciting new partnership with Oracle to provide private, secure, flexible, reliable, and low-latency connections to joint customers, with no data-transfer charges. With this partnership, Google Cloud and Oracle will build private, scalable, and secure peering capacity in multiple locations, removing port-setup lead times, and simplify the provisioning of […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Access Grants now integrate with Amazon SageMaker Studio
Amazon S3 Access Grants now integrate with Amazon SageMaker Studio for machine learning (ML) model training. S3 Access Grants help you to map identities in Identity Provider (IdPs) such as Active Directory, or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals, to your ML datasets in S3. Using the AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) plugin within Amazon […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Access Grants now integrate with open source Python frameworks
Amazon S3 Access Grants now integrate with open source Python frameworks using the AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) plugin. S3 Access Grants help you to map identities in Identity Providers (IdPs) such as Active Directory, or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals, to your datasets in S3. Importing the Boto3 plugin to your client replaces […]
AWS – RDS for PostgreSQL supports PL/Rust crates serde, serde_json, regex, and url
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports new PL/Rust crates such as serde and serde_json crates, allowing you to exchange information between server and client or between servers by serializing and deserializing data structures in your PL/Rust user-defined functions. The release also includes support for regex crate that allow you to search strings for matches of […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches the ability to preferentially route contacts to specific agents within a queue
Amazon Connect now supports the ability to preferentially route a contact within a queue to specific agents. Using this new feature, you can now set the preferred agent(s) for a given contact, and if that agent is unavailable, fall back to the next set of routing criteria. You can also use this feature to integrate […]
AWS – Amazon API Gateway WebSocket APIs now available in 7 additional AWS Regions
Today, Amazon API Gateway has expanded the availability of WebSocket APIs to 7 additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Canada West (Calgary). With this launch, customers can build APIs with real-time bi-directional communication across all commercial AWS Regions. Amazon API Gateway […]
AWS – AWS Application Migration Service supports Dynatrace post-launch action
Starting today, AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) provides an action for installing the Dynatrace agent on your migrated instances. For each migrated server, you can choose to automatically install the Dynatrace agent to support your observability needs. Application Migration Service minimizes time-intensive, error-prone manual processes by automating the conversion of your source servers to […]