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AWS – Announcing Amazon Nova 2 Sonic for real-time conversational AI
Today, Amazon announces the availability of Amazon Nova 2 Sonic, our speech-to-speech model for natural, real-time conversational AI that delivers industry leading quality and price for voice-based conversational AI. It offers best-in-class streaming speech understanding with robustness to background noise and users’ speaking styles, efficient dialog handling, and speech generation with expressive voices that can […]
GCP – Gain Cross-Cloud Network traffic insights with VPC Flow Logs and Flow Analyzer
Gaining visibility into your network traffic is crucial, particularly with hybrid environments encompassing both on-premises and cross-cloud infrastructure. VPC Flow Logs have long been a staple to obtain detailed records of network traffic to, from, and within your Google Cloud subnets. But with the rise of more complex network topologies enabled by the Cross-Cloud Network, […]
AWS – AWS Transform for mainframe now supports application reimagining
AWS Transform for mainframe delivers new data and activity analysis capabilities to extract comprehensive insights to drive the reimagining of mainframe applications. These insights can be combined with business logic extraction to inform decomposition of legacy applications into logical business domains. Together, these form the basis of a comprehensive specification for coding agents like Kiro […]
AWS – AWS Transform launches an AI agent for full-stack Windows modernization
AWS Transform is expanding its capability from the .NET modernization agent to now include the full-stack Windows modernization agent that handles both .NET applications and their associated databases. The new agent automates the transformation of .NET applications and Microsoft SQL Server databases to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and deploys them to containers on Amazon ECS or […]
AWS – AWS Transform adds new agentic AI capabilities for enterprise VMware migrations
AWS Transform adds powerful new agentic AI capabilities to automate VMware migrations to AWS. The migration agent collaborates with migration teams to understand business priorities and intelligently plan and migrate hundreds of applications spanning thousands of servers, significantly reducing manual effort, time, and complexity. The agent can now discover your on-premises environment and prioritize applications […]
AWS – AWS Transform expands .NET transformation capabilities and enhances developer experience
Today, AWS announces the general availability of expanded .NET transformation capabilities and an enhanced developer experience in AWS Transform. Customers can now modernize .NET Framework and .NET code to .NET 10 or .NET Standard. New transformation capabilities include UI porting of ASP.NET Web Forms to Blazor on ASP.NET Core and porting Entity Framework ORM code. […]
AWS – AWS Transform for mainframe delivers new testing automation capabilities
AWS Transform for mainframe now offers test planning and automation features to accelerate mainframe modernization projects. New capabilities include automated test plan generation, test data collection scripts, and test case automation scripts, alongside functional test environment tools for continuous delivery and regression testing, helping accelerate and de-risk testing and validation during mainframe modernization projects. The […]
AWS – AWS launches AWS Transform custom to accelerate organization-wide application modernization
AWS Transform custom is now generally available, accelerating organization-specific code and application modernization at scale using agentic AI. AWS Transform is the first agentic AI service to accelerate the transformation of Windows, mainframe, VMware, and more—reducing technical debt and making your tech stack AI-ready. Technical debt accumulates when organizations maintain legacy systems and outdated code, […]
GCP – AWS and Google Cloud collaborate to simplify multicloud networking
As organizations increasingly adopt multicloud architectures, the need for interoperability between cloud service providers has never been greater. Historically, however, connecting these environments has been a challenge, forcing customers to take a complex “do-it-yourself” approach to managing global multi-layered networks at scale. To address these challenges and advance a more open cloud environment, Amazon Web […]
GCP – Expanding Google Cloud’s Cross-Cloud Network with a groundbreaking AWS collaboration
Today, we announced a significant collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer a managed, private and secure, on-demand, solution for cross-cloud connectivity. This solution is designed to enable customers to easily build enterprise-grade applications that span both Google Cloud and AWS environments. This collaboration is particularly timely, as the adoption of multicloud applications is […]