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AWS – Announcing the release of AWS Thinkbox Deadline 10.3
AWS Thinkbox Deadline 10.3.0.9 is generally available with a DeadlineCommand application plugin, updated support for third-party integrations, and an upgrade to Python 3.10. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Translate enables language detection for real time document translation
Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Today, we are enabling language detection for real time document translation. Customers can now automatically detect the source document’s dominant language leveraging Amazon Comprehend’s language detection API. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Resilience Hub announces application resilience drift detection
AWS Resilience Hub adds support for application resilience drift detection, allowing you to opt into notifications that your application is no longer meeting the recovery objectives set by your business. Resilience Hub provides a single place to define, validate, and track the resilience of your applications so that you can avoid unnecessary downtime caused by […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker announces a new direct integration with Salesforce Data Cloud
Today, Amazon SageMaker announces a new direct integration with Salesforce Data Cloud, allowing customers to securely access their data in Salesforce Data Cloud from SageMaker to build, train, and deploy ML models on SageMaker. Customers can then bring the ML models into Salesforce Data Cloud using Salesforce Einstein Studio to power their ML-driven business applications. […]

GCP – IT pros’ top 5 challenges, ranked — and how Google Cloud Next can help you slay them
As an IT architect or IT professional, you are essential to the success of your organization, responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the IT systems that your businesses and governments rely on. As if that wasn’t enough, you’ve also got to constantly learn and adapt to keep up with the demand of an ever-changing IT […]

GCP – Building Internet-scale event-driven applications with Cloud Spanner change streams
Since its launch, Cloud Spanner change streams has seen broad adoption by Spanner customers in healthcare, retail, financial services, and other industries. This blog post provides an overview of the latest updates to Cloud Spanner change streams and how they can be used to build event-driven applications. A change stream watches for changes to your […]

Azure – Azure Load Testing: Now supports JMeter backend listeners
Azure Load Testing now supports JMeter backend listeners, so you can now configure a backend listener to export load test results to a data store, of your choice. Read More for the details.

GCP – SQL only LLM for Text Generation using Vertex AI model in BigQuery
Want to do quick Generative AI without writing much code, meeting your data where it is, only with SQL queries and without having to worry about security, privacy and compliance issues? BQML (BigQuery ML) helps you perform analytics on data stored in BigQuery using large language models (LLM) from Vertex AI. This means you can […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports secondary host metrics in Enhanced Monitoring
Starting today, the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports secondary host metrics in Enhanced Monitoring. Customers can now view essential metrics associated on the secondary host of a Multi-AZ DB instance, such as free storage, free memory, Read/Write IOPS, Read/Write Throughput, CPU utilization, and etc. See OS metrics in Enhanced […]
GCP – Unlock real-time observability for Vertex AI with Datadog
Things are about to change. ML and AI applications are revolutionizing the way problems are solved in everything from complex medical and financial systems, to autonomous vehicles and personalized search algorithms. End-to-end machine learning platforms like Vertex AI provide critical guardrails for ML development and deployment — from feature engineering to model training to low-latency […]