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AWS – IAM Roles Anywhere credential helper adds support for OS certificate stores
Today, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles Anywhere released credential helper version 1.0.5 to include support for X.509 certificates and private keys that are stored in macOS and Windows certificate stores. IAM Roles Anywhere credential helper is a tool that manages the process of signing the CreateSession API with the private key associated with […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 P5 instances, optimized for generative AI and HPC, are generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P5 instances, powered by the latest NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. These instances deliver the highest performance in Amazon EC2 for deep learning and high performance computing (HPC) applications. They help you accelerate your time to solution by up to 6x and lower […]

AWS – Announcing AWS HealthScribe (Preview)
Today, we are excited to announce AWS HealthScribe, a new HIPAA-eligible service designed to help healthcare software vendors build clinical applications that automatically generate preliminary clinical notes by analyzing patient-clinician conversations. With AWS HealthScribe, you can integrate conversational and generative AI in your application to accelerate clinical documentation workflow and enhance the consultation experience: no […]

AWS – AWS Glue Studio now supports Amazon CodeWhisperer
Today, AWS Glue announces that Amazon CodeWhisperer is available in AWS Glue Studio. You can use Amazon CodeWhisperer with no additional charge to generate real-time code suggestions in AWS Glue Studio notebooks. CodeWhisperer can generate code suggestions ranging from snippets to full functions in real time based on your prompts and existing code. Read More […]

GCP – Faster retailer success with Google Cloud Shelf Checking AI and Cortex Framework with SAP
Imagine this scenario: you walk into a store with a specific brand of product in mind, excited to make the purchase, only to be disappointed when you find out it’s completely sold out on the shelves. This situation is all too familiar for many of us. No shopper wants to walk into a store to […]

GCP – Calling all SAP developers: Announcing the ABAP SDK for Google Cloud
Google Cloud and SAP have been partners for many years, helping customers like Southwire transform their businesses by migrating their SAP environments to Google Cloud, and leveraging services like Vertex AI, Document AI and BigQuery, so they can get insights faster and accelerate business transformation. SAP developers and architects have several choices while designing the […]

GCP – The Web at Work: How Miro turned a tab into a think tank
Working in the browser has become the norm for many companies. There is a whole ecosystem of applications and technologies that support people being productive in Chrome every day. In our “The Web at Work” series, we take a closer look at browser-based apps that are changing the modern work experience. Today we’re featuring Miro, […]

GCP – Best Kept Security Secrets: Keeping secrets, the Secret Manager way
Can you keep a secret? Many people struggle to keep secrets. So do organizations. An organization’s digital credentials — its passwords, API keys, tokens, and encryption keys baked into its software code — are its vital secrets, used to authenticate access to protected resources and services. The security of these secrets represent one of the […]

GCP – TensorFlow on GKE Autopilot with GPU acceleration
With all the recent interest in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, you might be wondering: what’s the best place to run my AI/ML workloads? This is why we built the Autopilot mode of operation for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with GPU support. Autopilot takes care of all the infrastructure, so you can focus on running […]
AWS – AWS Entity Resolution is now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Entity Resolution, a configurable, machine learning (ML)–powered service that helps organizations match and link related records stored across multiple applications, channels, and data stores. You can get started in minutes using entity resolution workflows that are flexible, scalable, and seamlessly connectable to your existing applications, without any […]