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AWS – Amazon SageMaker HyperPod announces P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA B200 GPUs
Today, Amazon SageMaker HyperPod announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA B200 GPUs. Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances offer up to 2x performance compared to P5en instances for AI training. P6-B200 instances feature 8 Blackwell GPUs with 1440 GB of high-bandwidth GPU memory and a 60% increase in GPU memory bandwidth […]
AWS – Amazon S3 now supports sort and z-order compaction for Apache Iceberg tables
Amazon S3 now supports sort and z-order compaction for Apache Iceberg tables, available both in Amazon S3 Tables and general purpose S3 buckets using AWS Glue Data Catalog optimization. Sort compaction in Iceberg tables minimizes the number of data files scanned by query engines, leading to improved query performance and reduced costs. Z-order compaction provides […]
AWS – Customer Carbon Footprint Tool now includes location-based emissions
The Customer Carbon Footprint Tool (CCFT) and Data Exports now show emissions calculated using the location-based method (LBM), alongside emissions calculated using the market-based method (MBM) which were already present. In addition, you can now see the estimated emissions from CloudFront usage in the service breakdown, alongside EC2 and S3 estimates. LBM reflects the average […]
GCP – The secret to document intelligence: Box builds Enhanced Extract Agents using Google’s Agent-2-Agent framework
Box is one of the original information sharing and collaboration platforms of the digital era. They’ve helped define how we work, and have continued to evolve those practices alongside successive waves of new technology. One of the most exciting advances of the generative AI era is that now, with all the data that Box users […]
AWS – Announcing Intelligent Search for re:Post and re:Post Private
Today, AWS launches Intelligent Search on AWS re:Post and AWS re:Post Private — offering a more efficient and intuitive way to access AWS knowledge across multiple sources. This new capability transforms how builders find information, providing synthesized answers from various AWS resources in one place. Intelligent Search streamlines the process of finding relevant AWS information […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces tiers for content filters and denied topics
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces tiers for content filters and denied topics, offering additional flexibility and ease of use towards choosing features and expanded language support depending on customer use cases. With a new Standard tier, Guardrails now detects and filters undesirable content with better contextual understanding including modifications such as typographical errors, and support for […]
GCP – Run your own code at the edge with Service Extensions plugins for Cloud CDN
At Google Cloud, we’re committed to delivering the best performance possible globally for web and API content. Cloud CDN is a high-performance edge caching solution that runs at over 200 points of presence, and we continue to add more features and capabilities to it. Recently we launched invalidation with cache tags, device characterization, 0-RTT early […]
GCP – How to use Gemini 2.5 to fine-tune video outputs on Vertex AI
Recently, we announced Gemini 2.5 is generally available on Vertex AI. As part of this update, tuning capabilities have extended beyond text outputs – now, you can tune image, audio, and video outputs on Vertex AI. Supervised fine tuning is a powerful technique to customize LLM output using your own data. Through tuning, LLMs become […]
GCP – How AI & IoT are helping detect hospital incidents — without compromising patient privacy
Hospitals, while vital for our well-being, can be sources of stress and uncertainty. What if we could make hospitals safer and more efficient — not only for patients but also for the hard-working staff who care for them? Imagine if technology could provide an additional safeguard, predicting falls, or sensing distress before it’s even visible […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances to simplify VDI migrations
AWS today announced Amazon WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances, simplifying virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) migrations with highly customizable instance configurations. Utilizing EC2 Managed Instances at its foundation, WorkSpaces Core can now provision resources in your AWS account, handling infrastructure lifecycle management for both persistent and non-persistent workloads. Managed Instances complement existing WorkSpaces Core pre-configured bundles by […]