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GCP – Improving search experiences with Enterprise Search in Gen App Builder
In our conversations with customers, few generative AI use cases have driven as much enthusiasm as generative search. Leaders at enterprises know the limits of traditional enterprise search, with queries producing a list of links based on pattern matching, and significant manual investigation required to find the more relevant answers. In generative AI, these leaders […]

GCP – Predict, personalize, and wow your customers with better analytics and AI
What will financial services look like in the future? Historically, financial services have been driven by one-on-one relationship-based interactions. Now, customers expect these trusted relationships to translate into personalized, digital experiences that prove their providers know and value them, and have the capabilities to help them. It’s no secret that customer engagement leads to revenue […]

AWS – AWS CloudTrail Lake now supports selective start or stop ingestion of CloudTrail events
AWS CloudTrail Lake now provides the ability to selectively start or stop ingestion of CloudTrail events into your CloudTrail Lake event data store. This capability enables you to collect events only for a specific time window for troubleshooting or security analysis without having to delete or recreate the event data store. When you stop ingestion, […]

AWS – Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights is now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights, a new capability of Amazon FinSpace that makes it simple to configure, run, and manage kdb Insights on AWS. KX Systems’ kdb Insights, a high-performance analytics engine, is optimized for analyzing real-time and multi-petabyte historical capital markets data. Kdb Insights is widely […]

AWS – Amazon MWAA now supports in-place version upgrades
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports in-place version upgrades for environments version 2.x and later. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Kendra now available in Europe (London) AWS region
Starting today, AWS customers can use Amazon Kendra to build intelligent search applications in the Europe (LHR) AWS Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing Multi-Region Replication for Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports enhanced homogeneous migration capabilities
Today, AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) now makes homogeneous migrations simpler with built-in native database tooling. This launch allows you to seamlessly migrate your on-premises databases to equivalent target databases on AWS, providing easy and performant like-to-like migrations with minimal downtime and zero data loss. In addition, you can now centrally manage and monitor all […]

AWS – AWS CloudFormation StackSets launches APIs to allow programmatic trust access with AWS Organizations
Today, AWS CloudFormation StackSets provides customers with three new APIs to activate, deactivate, and describe AWS Organization trust access needed to get started with service-managed StackSets. You can use service-managed StackSets to centrally manage stack deployments to AWS accounts in one or more organizational units (OUs). With this launch, you can programmatically manage trust access […]
AWS – AWS Trusted Advisor adds new checks for Amazon EFS
AWS Trusted Advisor has launched two checks for Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). AWS Trusted Advisor evaluates your AWS account with automated checks and provides cloud optimization recommendations to reduce costs, improve performance, increase security and fault tolerance, and monitor service quotas. Read More for the details.