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AWS – Amazon EBS now provides visibility into EBS volume initialization status
Amazon EBS now provides visibility into the EBS volume initialization status for volumes created from EBS snapshots. You can use this status to determine when your volume becomes fully initialized when restoring from a snapshot and is fully ready to support latency-sensitive applications. EBS volumes that are created from EBS snapshots undergo volume initialization, in […]

AWS – Image-to-video generation support for Luma AI’s Ray2 now in Amazon Bedrock
Today, we are excited to announce that Luma AI’s Ray2 model on Amazon Bedrock now supports image-to-video generation. This new feature expands upon the text-to-video generation capabilities introduced in January, providing developers with even more powerful tools for creating dynamic video content. With this update, customers can now transform static .jpeg and .png images of […]

AWS – Introducing AWS AI League
Today, AWS introduces the AWS AI League, a program that helps organizations upskill their workforce by combining a fun competition with hands-on learning using AWS AI services such as Amazon SageMaker AI and Amazon Bedrock. The program offers a unique opportunity for both enterprises and developers to gain valuable and practical skills in fine-tuning, model […]

AWS – Announcing on-demand deployment for custom Amazon Nova models in Amazon Bedrock
Starting today, customers can use the on-demand deployment option in Amazon Bedrock for Nova models that have been fine-tuned or distilled in Bedrock, or customized in SageMaker AI. Models customized on or after 7/16/2025 will be eligible. This enables Bedrock customers to reduce costs by processing requests in real-time without requiring pre-provisioned compute resources. Customers […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch adds generative AI observability (Preview)
Amazon CloudWatch now helps you observe generative AI applications and workloads, including agents deployed and operated with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (Preview), providing insights into AI performance, health, and accuracy. You get an out-of-the-box view into latency, usage, and errors of your AI workloads to detect issues faster in components like model invocations and agents. You […]

AWS – Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now available in preview
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore enables developers to deploy and operate AI agents with the scale, reliability, and security critical to real-world applications. It provides purpose-built infrastructure to scale agents securely, powerful tools to enhance agent capabilities, and essential controls to ensure trustworthy operations. AgentCore services are modular and composable, allowing them to be used together or […]

AWS – AWS Free Tier now offers $200 in credits and 6-month free plan to explore AWS at no cost
Today, AWS announces enhancements to its Free Tier program, offering new customers up to $200 in AWS credits to evaluate over 200 services. This program benefits a wide range of users, including cloud professionals, software developers, students, and early entrepreneurs to gain hands-on experience with AWS services, develop new skills, and build proof-of-concepts. With the […]

GCP – Go beyond data: Four steps to master enterprise excellence
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of five blog posts dedicated to data transformation powered by Google Cloud and its ecosystem of data and analytics partners. Everyone is trying to determine how best to leverage new AI technologies. But to be able to get the most out of AI, you need a […]

GCP – How to integrate your Cloud SQL for MySQL database with Vertex AI & vector search
Search is a critical component of many modern applications – whether searching for products in an online storefront, finding solutions to your customers’ support cases, or building the perfect playlist. But traditional keyword searches often miss the deeper meaning of data. Vector embeddings, however, capture the complexities of your data, enabling highly accurate and powerful […]
GCP – How Renault Group is using Google’s software-defined vehicle industry solution
It’s funny to think of Renault Group, the massive European car manufacturer, as a software company, but in many ways, it is. Renault Group subsidiary Ampere Software Technology is dedicated to developing and integrating advanced software solutions for intelligent electric vehicles, aiming to create software-defined vehicles (SDVs) with enhanced customer experiences and new services. Ampere […]