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AWS – IonQ Forte Enterprise now available on Amazon Braket
Amazon Braket, the quantum computing service from AWS, now offers IonQ’s latest 36-qubit Forte Enterprise quantum processing unit (QPU) in the US East (N. Virginia) Region. This new device joins IonQ’s existing quantum hardware portfolio on Braket, which includes Forte-1, Aria-1, and Aria-2, providing customers with additional capacity to run their quantum workloads on ion-trapped […]
GCP – Vertex AI Search and Generative AI (with Gemini) achieve FedRAMP High
In the rapidly evolving AI landscape, security remains paramount. Today, we reinforce that commitment with another significant achievement: FedRAMP High authorization for Google Vertex AI Search and Generative AI on Vertex AI. This follows our announcement earlier this week where we shared that Gemini in Workspace apps and the Gemini app are the first generative […]
GCP – Google Cloud Next 25 Partner Summit: Session guide for partners
Partner Summit at Google Cloud Next ’25 is your opportunity to hear from Google Cloud leaders on what’s to come in 2025 for our partners. Breakout Sessions and Lightning Talks are your ticket to unlocking growth, mastering AI, and conquering the cloud marketplace. Sign-up today to secure your seat in one of the 40+ exclusive […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Model Evaluation LLM-as-a-judge is now generally available
Amazon Bedrock Model Evaluation’s LLM-as-a-judge capability is now generally available. Amazon Bedrock Model Evaluation allows you to evaluate, compare, and select the right models for your use case. You can choose an LLM as your judge from several available on Bedrock to ensure you have the right combination of evaluator models and models being evaluated. […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock now supports RAG Evaluation (generally available)
Amazon Bedrock RAG evaluation is now generally available. You can evaluate your retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications, either those built on Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases or a custom RAG system. You can evaluate either retrieval or end-to-end generation. Evaluations are powered by an LLM-as-a-judge, with a choice of several judge models. For retrieval, you can select […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall introduces new flow management feature
Today, AWS announces a new flow management feature for AWS Network Firewall that enables customers to identify and control active network flows. This feature introduces two key functions: Flow Capture, which allows point-in-time snapshots of active flows, and Flow Flush, which enables selective termination of specific connections. With these new capabilities, customers can now view […]
AWS – Amazon Q Business now available in AWS Europe (Ireland) region
Starting today, Amazon Q Business is available in AWS Europe region (Ireland). Amazon Q Business revolutionizes the way that employees interact with organizational knowledge and enterprise systems. Q Business customers in this region can get answers from enterprise RAG knowledge bases and uploaded files (e.g. pdf’s, images) and run tabular search on small tables. Customers […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M7g instances are now available in AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7g instances are available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed […]
GCP – Announcing BigQuery repositories: Git-based collaboration in BigQuery Studio
Modern data teams want to use Git to collaborate effectively and adopt software engineering best practices for managing their data pipelines and analytics code. But most tools used by data teams don’t offer integration with Git version control systems, making a Git workflow feel out of reach. This forces users to copy and paste code […]
GCP – Vector similarity search for Cloud SQL for MySQL is now GA
If you used the internet today, you’ve probably already benefited from generative AI. Whether it helped you get your work done faster, research home repairs, or find the perfect gift, gen AI is transforming how we get things done. These generative AI experiences use searches against vector embeddings — multi-dimensional representations of data’s meaning — […]