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GCP – Database Center — your AI-powered, unified fleet management solution
Organizations are grappling with an explosion of operational data spread across an increasingly diverse and complex database landscape. This complexity often results in costly outages, performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and compliance gaps, hindering their ability to extract valuable insights and deliver exceptional customer experiences. To help businesses overcome these challenges, earlier this year, we announced […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry now in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
The Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry and Schema Discovery service is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions, allowing you to discover and store event structure – or schema – in a shared, central location. You can download code bindings for those schemas for Java, Python, Typescript, and Golang so it’s […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Model Evaluation now supports evaluating custom models
Model Evaluation on Amazon Bedrock allows you to evaluate, compare, and select the best foundation models for your use case. Amazon Bedrock offers a choice of automatic evaluation and human evaluation. You can use automatic evaluation with predefined algorithms for metrics such as accuracy, robustness, and toxicity. Additionally, for those metrics or subjective and custom […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now detects and stops recursive loops between Lambda and Amazon S3
Lambda recursive loop detection can now automatically detect and stop recursive loops between AWS Lambda and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Lambda recursive loop detection, which is enabled by default, is a preventative guardrail that automatically detects and stops recursive invocations between Lambda and other supported services, preventing unintended usage and billing from runaway […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge Archive and Replay now in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon EventBridge Archive and Replay is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions, making event-driven applications more durable and extensible by providing an easier way to replay past events. Archive and Replay enables you to build applications that can more easily recover from errors and also allows you to more […]
AWS – AWS CodePipeline introduces new getting started experience
AWS CodePipeline introduces a simplified and new getting started experience to enable you to quickly create new pipelines. When you create a new pipeline using the CodePipeline console, you can now select from a list of pipeline templates across Build, Automation, and Deployment use cases. After selecting a pipeline template, you will be prompted to […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now supports using your customer’s initial chat message to personalize the customer experience
Amazon Connect Chat now supports using your customer’s initial message in flows, enabling you to improve self-service containment rates and personalize the customer experience. You can use the initial chat message to display the right step-by-step guide, trigger interactive messages from Amazon Lex (e.g., list pickers, carousels), or route the chat to the best agent. […]
GCP – New BigQuery capabilities for data and AI governance
Across industries and disciplines, generative AI is transforming the way we work, from sparking new forms of creativity and revolutionizing customer experiences to unlocking hidden insights within complex data. At the same time, this revolution hinges on high-quality, well-governed, and accessible data. Data may be the foundation of training and grounding AI models, but for […]
GCP – Bupa: Building a cloud-first digital platform for the future of healthcare
Consumer expectations of healthcare have changed. Accustomed to using digital products and services in other walks of life, people now rightly demand a similar experience with their healthcare. At Bupa, we’re committed to delivering on those desires, which is why we are working with Google Cloud to build our new, cloud-first digital customer platform. Driven […]
GCP – Real-time data for real-world AI with support for Apache Flink in BigQuery
Today’s organizations aspire to become “by-the-second” businesses, capable of adapting in real time to changes in their supply chain, inventory, customer behavior, and more. They also strive to provide exceptional customer experiences, whether it’s through a support interaction or an online checkout process. We believe that real-time intelligence should be accessible to all businesses, regardless […]