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AWS – Amazon SageMaker HyperPod announces new observability capability
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod’s new observability capability allows customers to accelerate generative AI model development by providing comprehensive visibility across compute resources and model development tasks. It takes away the manual work of collecting hundreds of metrics from across the stack, visualizing the correlations between them, and restoring the generative AI model development task performance. HyperPod observability […]
AWS – Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet hybrid reasoning model is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West). Claude 3.7 Sonnet offers advanced AI capabilities with both quick responses and extended, step-by-step thinking made visible to the user. This model has strong capabilities in coding and brings enhanced performance across various tasks, like instruction following, math, and physics. Anthropic’s […]
GCP – From localhost to launch: Simplify AI app deployment with Cloud Run and Docker Compose
At Google Cloud, we are committed to making it as seamless as possible for you to build and deploy the next generation of AI and agentic applications. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that we are collaborating with Docker to drastically simplify your deployment workflows, enabling you to bring your sophisticated AI applications from local development […]
AWS – Amazon P6e-GB200 UltraServers now available for the highest GPU performance in EC2
Today, Amazon announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P6e-GB200 UltraServers, accelerated by NVIDIA GB200 NVL72. Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 UltraServers offer the highest GPU-based AI training and inference performance in EC2. They are designed to accelerate training and inference of foundation models (FMs) including next-generation capabilities like reasoning models and agentic […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight introduces granular access customization for exports and reports
Amazon QuickSight extends the current granular access capabilities with new options for exports and reports. QuickSight now allows administrators to customize access by export content type – PDF reports, CSV or Excel exports and dashboard prints for both on-demand exports on QuickSight Dashboards or Q visuals as well as scheduled email reports. Administrators can also […]
AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports C7i and R7i instances
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) now supports Amazon EC2 C7i and R7i instances, powered by 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. These instance types offer improved performance over previous generations and are suitable for a wide range of migration workloads. You can launch migrations using C7i and R7i instances via the AWS DMS Console, […]
GCP – How to tap into natural language AI services using the Conversational Analytics API
AI is making it easier than ever to get clear, reliable answers from your data. With intelligent tools like the Conversational Analytics API, powered by Gemini, you no longer need intricate systems to get insights. The Conversational Analytics API lets you use everyday language to ask questions of your data in BigQuery or Looker, with […]
AWS – Fully managed MLflow 3.0 now available on Amazon SageMaker AI
Amazon SageMaker now offers fully-managed support for MLflow 3.0 that streamlines AI experimentation and accelerates your GenAI journey from idea to production. This release transforms managed MLflow from experiment tracking to providing end-to-end observability, reducing time-to-market for generative AI development. As customers across industries accelerate their generative AI development, they require capabilities to track experiments, […]
AWS – Amazon Route 53 Resolver Query Logging now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei)
Today, we are announcing the availability of Route 53 Resolver Query Logging in Asia Pacific (Taipei), enabling you to log DNS queries that originate in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). With query logging enabled, you can see which domain names have been queried, the AWS resources from which the queries originated – including […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now supports parallel AWS Lambda execution in flows
Amazon Connect now supports parallel execution of AWS Lambda functions in flows, enabling faster and more seamless customer experiences. Amazon Connect allows you to integrate with third-party or homegrown systems such as CRMs using Lambda to automate tasks like reading or updating customer records. With this launch, you can now execute multiple Lambda functions concurrently […]