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GCP – Conversational AI on Gen App Builder unlocks generative AI-powered chatbots and virtual agents
Enterprise search apps and conversational chatbots are among the most widely-applicable generative AI use cases. With Generative AI App Builder (Gen App Builder), our goal has been to combine these capabilities into a single developer-friendly product that provides access to sophisticated foundation models, removes the complexity of grounding them in proprietary data, streamlines their implementation […]
GCP – Document AI introduces powerful new Custom Document Splitter to automate document processing
Businesses rely on processing an inflow of documents to drive processes and make decisions. Many such documents are combined into a single file. For example, a loan application may have a driver’s license, paystub, W2, bank statement, and other document types within a single file. The complexity of handling many document types within a single […]
AWS – AWS Lambda and Amazon EventBridge Pipes now support enhanced filtering
AWS Lambda event source mappings and Amazon EventBridge Pipes sources now support additional filtering capabilities including the ability to match against characters at the end of a value (suffix filtering), to ignore case sensitivity (equals-ignore-case), and to have a single rule match if any conditions across multiple separate fields are true (OR matching). We’re also […]
AWS – AWS simplifies writing .NET 6 Lambda functions
We are happy to announce the general availability of the Lambda Annotations Framework for .NET. This new programming model makes the experience of writing Lambda functions in C# feel more natural for .NET developers by using C# source generator technology. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect Wisdom is now available for chat agents
Amazon Connect Wisdom now delivers ML-powered, real-time recommended information to help chat agents quickly solve customer needs. Previously only available for agents responding to calls, Wisdom’s machine learning models help detect customer issues and recommend knowledge articles to agents during chat sessions. By proactively delivering agents the information they need, Wisdom helps improve agent productivity […]
Azure – Public Preview: Customer Managed Failover for ADLS Gen 2
Customer-managed failover now supports ADLS Gen 2 Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Stream Analytics No-Code Editor available in Azure Stream Analytics Portal
The no-code editor is now available in Azure Stream Analytics portal to enable building your Stream Analytics jobs effortlessly, no coding required. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Fargate enables faster container startup using Seekable OCI
Customers running applications on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) with AWS Fargate can now leverage Seekable OCI (SOCI), a technology open sourced by AWS that helps applications deploy and scale out faster by enabling the containers to start without waiting for the entire container image to be downloaded. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon IVS now supports rendition filtering and higher frequency thumbnails for the Record to S3 feature
With Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) you now have the option to filter the specific HLS renditions stored in your S3 bucket as well as control the resolution and pixel count of thumbnail jpeg files while using the auto-record to S3 feature. These controls allow customers to control the amount of data stored while […]
GCP – DevOps Awards winner Boa Vista Services on securing the software supply chain
In this blog post, we’re highlighting Boa Vista for the DevOps achievements that earned them the ‘Securing the software supply chain’ award in the 2022 DevOps Awards. If you want to learn more about the winners and how they used DORA metrics and practices to grow their businesses, start here. Boa Vista Serviços — originally […]