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AWS – New Compute Optimized Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances
AWS is announcing the general availability of new compute optimized Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. These C8i and C8i-flex instances offer up to 15% better […]
AWS – AWS Glue adds write operations for SAP OData, Adobe Marketo Engage, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, and HubSpot connectors
AWS Glue adds write operations support for SAP OData, Adobe Marketo Engage, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, and HubSpot connectors. This allows you to not only extract data from those applications, but also write data to them directly from your AWS Glue ETL jobs. With the new write functionality you can create and update records in SAP […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports batch AI inference
You can now perform batch AI inference within Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion pipelines to efficiently enrich and ingest large datasets for Amazon OpenSearch Service domains. Previously, customers used OpenSearch’s AI connectors to Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, and 3rd-party services for real-time inference. Inferences generate enrichments such as vector embeddings, predictions, translations, and recommendations to power AI […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Video Streams now supports IPv6 for Streams capability
Today, AWS announces Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addressing support for Amazon Kinesis Video Streams (KVS). With this enhancement, KVS now offers dual-stack endpoints that let customers use both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to stream video from millions of devices. This means that existing IPv4 implementations continue to work seamlessly while gaining the benefits of […]
GCP – Connect Spark data pipelines to Gemini and other AI models with Dataproc ML library
Many data science teams rely on Apache Spark running on Dataproc managed clusters for powerful, large-scale data preparation. As these teams look to connect their data pipelines directly to machine learning models, there’s a clear opportunity to simplify the integration. But running inference on a Spark DataFrame using a model from Vertex AI typically requires […]
AWS – AWS End User Messaging now sends onboarding progress alerts via Slack, Email, or any other EventBridge destination
Starting today, AWS End User Messaging customers can be notified of updates to their SMS onboarding progress in Slack, Email, or any other Amazon EventBridge destination. Before this launch, tracking the status of your onboarding progress was difficult. Customers had to periodically check the status of a phone number registration in the console. Now with […]
AWS – AWS Clean Rooms now supports collaboration with cross-region data sources
Today, AWS Clean Rooms announces support for cross-region data collaboration. This launch enables companies and their partners to easily collaborate with data sources stored in different regions, without having to move, copy, or share their underlying data. With AWS Clean Rooms support for cross-region data collaboration, organizations can collaborate with their partners by leveraging datasets […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now provides generative AI-powered email conversation overviews and suggested responses
Amazon Connect now provides agents with generative AI-powered email conversation overviews, suggested actions, and responses. This enables agents to handle emails more efficiently, and customers to receive faster, more consistent support. For example, when a customer emails about a refund request, Amazon Connect automatically provides key details about the customer’s purchase history, recommends a refund […]
AWS – AWS Introduces self-service invoice correction feature
Today, AWS announces the general availability of a self-service Invoice correction feature to update AWS invoices. This launch enables all AWS customers to correct key invoice attributes—including purchase order numbers, business legal name, and addresses — on their AWS invoices and get corrected invoices instantaneously. AWS customers can now access the new self-service Invoice correction […]
AWS – EC2 Image Builder now provides enhanced capabilities for managing image pipelines
EC2 Image Builder now automatically disables pipelines after consecutive failures and allows customers to configure custom log groups for image pipelines. These capabilities address common operational needs including improved control over pipeline execution, enhanced customization options for logging requirements, and better visibility. Image Builder pipelines are used to automate the creation, testing, and distribution of […]