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AWS – AWS Marketplace introduces new seller experiences for Machine Learning products
Today, we are excited to announce a set of improvements to the seller management experience for Machine Learning (ML) products in AWS Marketplace. Sellers can now quickly publish and update ML listings with a new self-service experience in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal. Additionally, sellers can now create, view, and manage private offers for ML […]

AWS – Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports Amazon Opensearch Managed Cluster for vector storage
We are announcing the support of Amazon OpenSearch Managed cluster as a vector store in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases. Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases securely connects foundation models (FMs) to internal company data sources for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), to deliver more relevant and accurate responses. Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases’ native integration with vector databases allows […]

AWS – Amazon DynamoDB now supports percentile statistics for request latency
Amazon DynamoDB now supports percentile statistics for the SuccessfulRequestLatency Amazon CloudWatch metric. The percentile statistic enables you to understand the latency distribution of your successful requests to DynamoDB, complementing the existing average, minimum, and maximum statistics. The SuccessfulRequestLatency metric only measures latency which is internal to the Amazon DynamoDB service – client side activity and […]

AWS – AWS CloudFormation now supports targeted resource scans in the IaC generator
Today, AWS CloudFormation introduced a new resource scanning workflow for the CloudFormation IaC generator, further simplifying the process of generating Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) templates for existing resources in your AWS account. IaC generator allows you to onboard existing resources to CloudFormation in three easy steps. First, you initiate a scan of resources in your AWS account. […]

GCP – Google Agentspace achieves FedRamp High authorization
We’re excited to announce that Google Agentspace is now authorized for FedRAMP High, bringing Google’s powerful search technology and agentic capabilities to the enterprise. Agentspace is available within Google Cloud’s Assured Workloads, expanding our AI portfolio for public sector organizations and offered on a per-user basis. This announcement builds upon our recent update, which introduced […]

AWS – Announcing 3 new features on Connected Mobility Solution on AWS
Today AWS announced role-based access control, multi-account and multi-region support, and Fleet Management Portal (Preview) for the Connected Mobility Solution (CMS) on AWS. Role-based access control enables customers to manage and restrict access to developer portal of CMS based on security roles assigned to users. In addition, customers can use CMS to deploy AWS and […]

AWS – Amazon Q Business now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
Starting today, Amazon Q Business is available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS Region. 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. […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 P5en instances are now available in US East (N. Virginia) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P5en instances powered by NVIDIA H200 GPUs are available in US East (N. Virginia) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) regions. These instances are optimized for generative AI and high performance computing (HPC) applications. P5en instances feature 8 H200 GPUs which have 1.7x GPU memory size and 1.4x GPU […]

AWS – Amazon EKS now enforces upgrade insights checks as part of cluster upgrades
Today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) announced a new control to prevent accidental cluster upgrades when issues are already detected that may impact application compatibility with the next Kubernetes version. This feature leverages EKS upgrade insights and is significant step towards giving cluster administrators confidence with Kubernetes version upgrades. EKS upgrade insights automatically scan clusters […]
GCP – Google Cloud at KubeCon Europe 2025
Do you work with Kubernetes every day? Want to learn about the latest advancement in Kubernetes and the Cloud Native Space? Come join us for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London (April 1-4), the premier event for folks running Kubernetes in the cloud! As the creator of the Kubernetes project and a key leader […]