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AWS – AWS Marketplace now supports offers in four new currencies and non-US bank accounts for disbursement
AWS Marketplace announces support for sellers and channel partners to create contract pricing private offers in four new currencies, and choose non-US bank accounts for disbursement. These features make it easier for sellers and buyers to do business globally by simplifying funds flow. Sellers can now create private offers with contract pricing in EUR, GBP, […]
AWS – Amazon Transcribe now supports streaming transcription in 30 additional languages
Today, we are excited to announce support for 30 additional languages for streaming audio transcriptions bringing the total number of supported languages to 54. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. New languages supported with this release include Afrikaans, Amharic, […]
AWS – AWS Beanstalk adds support for Python 3.12
AWS Beanstalk adds support for Python 3.12 on AL2023 Beanstalk environments. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that provides the ability to deploy and manage applications in AWS without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. Python 3.12 on AL2023 adds improved error messaging, Linux perf profiler support, improved speed of interpreter and usability […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports configuring a minimum firing period for alerts
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports the ability to configure the minimum duration for which an alert remains active, after the condition that triggered the alert is no longer valid. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Agents now provides Conversational Builder
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Conversational Builder for Amazon Bedrock Agents which provides a chat interface for you to use to build your Bedrock Agents. With the Conversational Builder, you can chat with an assistant that will guide you through building an agent and create your agent based off natural language instructions. The […]
AWS – Amazon Corretto October, 2024 Quarterly Updates
On October 15, 2024 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) and Feature Release (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 23.0.1, 21.0.5, 17.0.13, 11.0.25, 8u432 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Click on the Corretto home page to download Corretto 8, […]
AWS – Announcing AWS DMS Serverless support for MongoDB and DocDB as a source
AWS Database Migration Service Serverless (AWS DMSS) now supports MongoDB and Amazon DocDB as data sources. Using AWS DMSS, you can now migrate data from MongoDB and Amazon DocDB to a variety of data targets. AWS DMSS now shows MongoDB and Amazon DocDB as options when defining endpoints which can then be used as sources […]
AWS – AWS CloudShell now supports Amazon Q CLI
Today, we are announcing the integration of Amazon Q CLI into CloudShell, the embedded terminal experience in the AWS Management Console. The command line is used by over thirty million engineers to write, build, run, debug, and deploy software. However, despite how critical it is to the software development process, the command line is challenging […]
GCP – Google Cloud Marketplace private offer enhancements unlock enterprise and AI use cases
When it comes to purchasing technology for different departments and business units that operate across the globe, enterprise customers need flexibility and choice. This needs to extend to the technology, including generative AI solutions, that integrate with a customer’s Google Cloud environment and that are procured through Google Cloud Marketplace. Google Cloud Marketplace offers a […]
GCP – Welcome to Google Public Sector Summit 2024
Today, Google Public Sector is gathering customers and partners in Washington, D.C. for its annual Google Public Sector Summit, an event focusing on the “art of the possible” in AI, cybersecurity, and data analysis for government customers. In 2023, we gathered the government technology community to explore and share best practices on how to get […]