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AWS – Amazon EC2 R7i instances are now available in an additional AWS region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7i instances are available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. Amazon EC2 R7i instances are powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids), available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. R7i […]
AWS – Accelerate serverless development with ready-to-use Serverless Land Patterns in Visual Studio Code
AWS makes it easier for developers to build serverless applications by bringing Serverless Land’s extensive application pattern library directly into the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) IDE. This integration eliminates the need to switch between your development environment and external resources when building serverless architectures by enabling you to browse, search, and implement pre-built serverless […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge expands IAM execution role support to all targets
Amazon EventBridge expands execution role support to AWS Lambda, Amazon SNS, and Amazon SQS event bus targets, making this feature available for all target types. We recommend configuring execution roles for all your EventBridge targets to benefit from consistent permissions policies and dedicated invocation throttle limits. Amazon EventBridge Event Bus is a serverless event broker […]
AWS – Amazon GameLift Servers launches Game Server Wrapper for rapid onboarding
We’re excited to introduce the Amazon GameLift Servers Game Server Wrapper, an open-source tool that helps significantly reduce the time required for game developers to onboard their game servers. Developers told us they faced significant overhead integrating the Server SDK, including dependency management and custom code implementation. The Game Server Wrapper solves these challenges by […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Flows and Prompt Management now available in AWS GovCloud (US) and more regions
Amazon Bedrock Flows and Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) and Europe (Stockholm) regions. Flows helps you accelerate the creation, testing, and deployment of predefined generative AI workflows. You can use the visual builder or SDK to connect the latest foundation models, prompts, agents, knowledge bases, and other AWS services […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune Database now supports R7i instances
Amazon Neptune Database now supports R7i database instances powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. R7i instances offer larger instance sizes, up to 48xlarge and features an 8:1 ratio of memory to vCPU, and the latest DDR5 memory. These instances are now available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), […]
GCP – ScaNN for AlloyDB: The first PostgreSQL vector search index that works well from millions to billion of vectors
Executive Summary – ScaNN for AlloyDB is the first Postgres-based vector search extension that supports vector indexes of all sizes, while providing fast index builds, fast transactional updates, small memory footprint, and accurate and fast search. Many customers use AlloyDB for PostgreSQL to power sophisticated semantic search and generative AI use cases, performing vector search […]
GCP – 5 ways ChromeOS uplevels the experience for Microsoft 365
For businesses to modernize and meet the needs of workers, embracing the web is essential. Forrester’s research confirms this trend, with 78% of IT respondents stating that companies failing to embrace the web will fall behind.1 ChromeOS can be the catalyst for an organization to improve security, IT management, user experience, and reduce IT-related costs […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge SaaS partner integrations now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon EventBridge now supports Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) partner integrations in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, enabling government customers and organizations in regulated industries to build event-driven architectures that connect their AWS applications with supported third-party SaaS partners. With EventBridge partner integrations, customers can receive events from supported SaaS providers without writing custom code for API integration. […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 G6e instances now available in Seoul Region
Starting today, the Amazon EC2 G6e instances powered by NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs is now available in Asia Pacific(Seoul) Region. G6e instances can be used for a wide range of machine learning and spatial computing use cases. Customers can use G6e instances to deploy large language models (LLMs) with up to 13B parameters and […]