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AWS – Amazon EC2 I7ie instances now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Region
AWS is announcing starting today, Amazon EC2 I7ie instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) region. Designed for large storage I/O intensive workloads, I7ie instances are powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, offering up to 40% better compute performance and 20% better price performance over […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings
We are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings, a state-of-the-art embedding model for agentic RAG and semantic search. It is the first unified embedding model that supports text, documents, images, video, and audio through a single model, to enable cross-modal retrieval with leading accuracy. Managing and searching across different content […]
AWS – AWS Payment Cryptography is now available in Canada(Montreal), Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (London)
AWS Payment Cryptography has expanded its global presence with availability in three new regions – Canada(Montreal), Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (London). This expansion enables customers with latency-sensitive payment applications to build, deploy or migrate into additional AWS Regions without depending on cross-region support. For customers processing payment workloads in Europe, availability in London offers additional […]
GCP – Introducing an agentic commerce solution for merchants from PayPal and Google Cloud
Modern consumers demand a seamless, personalized shopping journey, from initial product discovery all the way to final purchase. With the rise of agentic AI, merchants now have an opportunity to deliver a truly assistive and cohesive experience across every touchpoint. That’s why today, building on our goal of transforming commerce, PayPal and Google Cloud are […]
GCP – Announcing new capabilities in Vertex AI Training for large-scale training
Building and scaling generative AI models demands enormous resources, but this process can get tedious. Developers wrestle with managing job queues, provisioning clusters, and resolving dependencies just to ensure consistent results. This infrastructure overhead, along with the difficulty of discovering the optimal training recipe and navigating the endless maze of hyperparameter and model architecture choices, […]
GCP – Introducing Bigtable tiered storage: Save more data, longer, for less
Today, we’re pleased to introduce a new Bigtable storage tier for efficient management of massive datasets, now available in preview. This fully managed, cost-effective system automatically moves less frequently accessed data from high-performance SSDs to infrequent access storage, lowering your total cost of ownership. With tiered storage in Bigtable, you can access and modify data […]
AWS – Amazon Location Service introduces new API key restrictions
Today, AWS announced enhanced API key restrictions for Amazon Location Service, enabling developers to secure their location-based applications more effectively. This new capability helps organizations that need to restrict API access to specific mobile applications, providing improved security controls for location services across their application portfolio. Developers can now create granular security policies by restricting […]
AWS – Amazon Cognito now supports resource indicators to simplify enhancing protection of OAuth 2.0 resources
Amazon Cognito now enables app clients to specify resource indicators during access token requests as part of its OAuth 2.0 authorization code grant and implicit grant flows. The resource indicator identifies the protected resource, such as a user’s bank account record or a specific file in a file server that the user needs to access. […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Serverless is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia) regions
Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia) regions. With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users, including data analysts, developers, and data scientists, can use Amazon Redshift to get insights […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker adds additional search context for search results
Amazon SageMaker enhances search results in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio with additional context that improves transparency and interpretability. Users can see which metadata fields matched their query and understand why each result appears, increasing clarity and trust in data discovery. The capability introduces inline highlighting for matched terms and an explanation panel that details where […]