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AWS – Amazon Bedrock now available in the Europe (Zurich) Regions
Beginning today, customers can use Amazon Bedrock in the Europe (Zurich) region to easily build and scale generative AI applications using a variety of foundation models (FMs) as well as powerful tools to build generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing large language models (LLMs) and […]
AWS – Configure Route53 CIDR blocks rules based on Internet Monitor suggestions
With Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor’s new traffic optimization suggestions feature, you can configure your Amazon Route 53 CIDR blocks to map your application’s client users to an optimal AWS Region based on network behavior. Internet Monitor now provides actionable suggestions to help you optimize your Route 53 IP-based routing configurations. By leveraging the new traffic […]
AWS – Amazon Verified Permissions launches new API to get multiple policies
Amazon Verified Permissions has launched a new API called batchGetPolicies. Customers can now make a single API call that returns multiple policies, for example to populate a list of policies that apply to a specific principal or resource. Amazon Verified Permissions is a permissions management and fine-grained authorization service for the applications that you build. […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports October 2024 Release Update
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the October 2024 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c. To learn more about Oracle RUs supported on Amazon RDS for each engine version, see the Amazon RDS for Oracle Release notes. If the auto minor version upgrade (AmVU) option is enabled, […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports minor versions in October 2024
New minor versions of Microsoft SQL Server are now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, providing performance enhancements and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports these latest minor versions of SQL Server 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2022 across the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. We encourage you to upgrade your […]
AWS – Express brokers for Amazon MSK is now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Express brokers for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK). Express brokers are a new broker type for Amazon MSK Provisioned designed to deliver up to 3x more throughput per broker, scale up to 20x faster, and reduce recovery time by 90% as compared to standard Apache […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in South America (Sao Paulo) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 9TiB of memory (u-9tb1.112xlarge) and 18TiB of memory (u-18tb1.112xlarge) are now available in South America (Sao Paulo) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for running Business […]
GCP – Deutsche Telekom designs the telco of tomorrow with BigQuery
Imagine you unlocked your phone and all you saw was a blank glowing screen in a happy shade of pink, or a family photo, and nothing else. No apps, no window, no pop-ups. You simply tap the screen and then speak a request or type something in, and almost instantly you’ve drafted an email or […]
GCP – How to simplify building RAG pipelines in BigQuery with Document AI Layout Parser
Document preprocessing is a common hurdle when building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines. It often requires Python skills and external libraries to parse documents like PDFs into manageable chunks that can be used to generate embeddings. In this blog, we look at new capabilities within BigQuery and Document AI that simplify this process, and take you […]
GCP – Getting started with NL2SQL (natural language to SQL) with Gemini and BigQuery
The rise of Natural Language Processing (NLP) combined with traditional Structured Query Language (SQL) has given rise to an exciting new technology known as Natural Language to SQL, or NL2SQL, which translates questions phrased in everyday human language into structured SQL queries. Not surprisingly, the technology has tremendous potential to transform the way we interact […]