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AWS – Amplify Swift launches Shared Keychain support
Amplify Swift now supports sharing authentication state across multiple apps by leveraging keychain access groups. This new feature allows developers to manage a single authentication session across all Swift-based applications and extensions within the same access group. Developers can now configure Amplify to store authentication information in a shared keychain, with built-in support for migrating […]
GCP – Nuro drives autonomous innovation with AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
Editor’s note: Nuro, a robotics company that develops technology for self-driving vehicles, needed a data platform that could handle complex data processes and support continuous AI model improvement. By migrating to AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Nuro gained the scalability, high performance, and advanced query capabilities needed to power AI-driven insights across millions of data points while […]
GCP – Build gen AI agents using Google Cloud databases
As enterprises build generative AI agents to strengthen their security posture or improve their customer experience, they need access to real-time data. Because most business critical and real-time data is stored and processed in databases, you need ways to perform agentic orchestration in dynamic ways. In this post, we’ll define a new tech stack composed […]
GCP – Speed up checkpoint loading time at scale using Orbax on JAX
Imagine training a new AI / ML model like Gemma 3 or Llama 3.3 across hundreds of powerful accelerators like TPUs or GPUs to achieve a scientific breakthrough. You might have a team of powerful computers working in sync, constantly learning and refining. But every so often, they need to save their progress — a […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens now enables you to capture agent acknowledgements of performance evaluations
You can now capture and review agent acknowledgements of performance evaluations within Contact Lens, ensuring that agents have reviewed evaluation feedback and understand performance expectations. Today, agents receive automated email notifications or tasks to review their performance evaluations. With this launch, agents can acknowledge their review of performance evaluations within the Connect UI, and add […]
AWS – AWS Deadline Cloud now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
AWS Deadline Cloud customers can now use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses, enabling you to run your render farms in IPv6-only or dual-stack environments. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that helps customers render visual effects, animation, and other complex graphics workloads in the cloud. With the addition of IPv6 support, AWS […]
AWS – AWS Directory Service for Microsoft AD and AD Connector available in Mexico and Thailand
AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, and AD Connector are now available in the AWS Mexico – Central and in Thailand region. Built on actual Microsoft Active Directory (AD), AWS Managed Microsoft AD enables you to migrate AD-aware applications while reducing the work of managing AD infrastructure […]
AWS – AWS adds currency selection to Payment Profiles
AWS has enhanced Payment Profiles to allow customers to select their preferred currency for each AWS service provider (seller of record). This new capability builds upon the existing ability to set different payment methods per service provider, giving you more control over your currency preferences. With Payment Profiles you can now customize both payment methods […]
GCP – Introducing protection summary, a new Google Cloud Backup and DR feature
In today’s cloud environments, data protection is paramount. Ensuring your backups are configured correctly and aligned with your business continuity requirements is critical for business continuity and resilience against threats like ransomware. However, understanding your backup coverage across a complex cloud environment can be challenging. That’s why we’re excited to announce the preview of protection […]
GCP – Building AI agents with Gen AI Toolbox for Databases and Dgraph
We recently announced the public beta of Gen AI Toolbox for Databases, and today we’re excited to expand its capabilities through a new partnership with Hypermode. Gen AI Toolbox for Databases is an open source server that empowers application developers to connect production-grade, agent-based generative AI (gen AI) applications to databases. Toolbox streamlines the creation, […]