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GCP – Best Kept Security Secrets: Keeping secrets, the Secret Manager way
Can you keep a secret? Many people struggle to keep secrets. So do organizations. An organization’s digital credentials — its passwords, API keys, tokens, and encryption keys baked into its software code — are its vital secrets, used to authenticate access to protected resources and services. The security of these secrets represent one of the […]
GCP – TensorFlow on GKE Autopilot with GPU acceleration
With all the recent interest in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, you might be wondering: what’s the best place to run my AI/ML workloads? This is why we built the Autopilot mode of operation for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with GPU support. Autopilot takes care of all the infrastructure, so you can focus on running […]
AWS – AWS Entity Resolution is now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Entity Resolution, a configurable, machine learning (ML)–powered service that helps organizations match and link related records stored across multiple applications, channels, and data stores. You can get started in minutes using entity resolution workflows that are flexible, scalable, and seamlessly connectable to your existing applications, without any […]
AWS – Vector engine for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now in preview
Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers a simple, scalable, and high-performing vector engine for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless. Your developers can use this vector engine to build machine learning (ML)–augmented search experiences and generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications without having to manage the vector database infrastructure. You can rely on the vector engine for a cost-efficient, secure […]
AWS – Enable generative AI applications to complete tasks in just a few clicks
Amazon Bedrock now supports agents, a new, fully managed capability, that enables generative AI applications to complete tasks in just a few clicks – based on organization data and user input without any manual code. Agents for Bedrock orchestrate interactions between FMs, data sources, software applications, and users and automatically execute APIs. Developers can easily […]
Azure – Speech-to-text REST API v3.0 will be retired by 31 March 2026.
Speech-to-text REST API v3.0 will be retired by 31 March 2026. Update your code that uses Speech-to-text REST API. We recently updated the Speech-to-text REST API to version 3.1. Version 3.1 builds on the capabilities of the previous version and adds new features including language identification and multi-speaker diarization. With these enhancements, we’ll retire version 3.0 of […]
GCP – How an international fashion company transforms customer service experiences with conversational AI
LPP S.A. (LPP), a Polish international fashion company that manages five clothing brands, maintains an extensive e-commerce footprint and operates over 2,000 brick-and-mortar stores in almost 40 countries. With double-digit growth across all brands and markets, LPP increasingly relies on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to automate and transform customer service experiences. “Sales […]
AWS – Announcing the general availability of AWS HealthImaging
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS HealthImaging, a new HIPAA-eligible service that empowers healthcare providers and their software partners to store, analyze, and share medical images at petabyte scale. With HealthImaging, you can run your medical imaging applications at scale from a single, authoritative copy of each medical image in the cloud, while […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Serverless now supports storing logs in Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option that makes it simple for data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks like Apache Spark and Apache Hive without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Starting today, you can store logs for your EMR Serverless Spark and Hive applications in Amazon CloudWatch. Read […]
AWS – CloudWatch Application Insights adds monitoring for multi-app instance deployments
Amazon Web Services customers can now get detailed health metrics and analysis of their multi-application deployments residing in the same instances with Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights. CloudWatch Application Insights helps customers gain actionable insights for their application environment and AWS resources by making it easy to set up and monitor applications, recognize problems, and use […]