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The opinions expressed in this post are the authors’ views and not those of Cisco. Enterprise architectures have long been centered on REST APIs and microservices. These systems are stable, well-tested, and deeply embedded in production environments. They weren’t designed for Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication, the emerging standard for autonomous agents that collaborate, reason, and coordinate …

Retrofit, don’t rebuild: Agentic overlays for transforming legacy enterprise services Read More »

Optimizing model training on Amazon SageMaker AI with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs changes what’s practical for large AI models. If you train large models today, you are likely working around a familiar set of constraints: batch sizes limited by GPU memory, sequence lengths cut short to avoid out-of-memory errors, and model sharding that adds communication overhead …

Optimize model training on Amazon SageMaker AI with NVIDIA Blackwell Read More »

As display technologies advance to higher resolutions, many organizations face a common challenge: their existing video libraries contain lower-resolution content that appears pixelated or blurry on modern high-definition displays. Traditional video upscaling approaches often struggle with computational limits, inconsistent quality, and scalability issues when processing large video collections. Many existing solutions also lack the techniques …

Implementing super resolution by deploying SeedVR2 on Amazon SageMaker AI Read More »

On a typical Monday morning, an enterprise operations team receives multiple AWS Health notifications about Amazon Linux 2 end-of-life, RDS version deprecations, and EC2 instance retirements across 50+ accounts. Without self-service analytics, the team has no way to quickly identify the events that affect production systems, the events that require immediate action versus long-term planning, …

Build self-service AWS Health analytics to find actionable health insights with AI agents powered by Amazon Bedrock Read More »

When a customer service agent autonomously queries order databases, retrieves return policies, and synthesizes answers, it needs governed access to multiple data sources across your organization. Building agentic AI applications on a modern data mesh requires fine-grained access control enforced at every layer of the data interaction chain. AI agents that autonomously discover database schemas, …

Building agentic AI applications with a modern data mesh strategy on AWS Read More »

The new Google Finance is coming out of beta and launching a new Android app. ​ 

When your document repository contains hundreds of millions of files accumulated over nearly a decade, how do you systematically find and redact sensitive customer data without taking years to complete? This was the challenge facing The Huntington National Bank (Huntington), a top 10 bank in the United States. Redacting sensitive information at scale Since 2015, …

Huntington Bank: Redacting sensitive data from 400M+ documents with AWS Read More »

If you run a clinic or hospital network, you already know the cost of missed appointments. The average no-show rate across US healthcare sits between 5–30 percent, depending on specialty. Each empty slot represents lost revenue, idle provider time, and delayed patient care. The standard fix, calling patients one by one to confirm or reschedule, …

Build a healthcare appointment agent with Amazon Nova 2 Sonic Read More »

One dashboard shows 42,000 active movie view counts while another shows 38,500. Your chat agent references a third number entirely. Data teams spend hours reconciling numbers instead of answering strategic questions, and trust in analytics erodes. This is a pattern that we see across many organizations. Teams spend more effort reconciling numbers than actually using …

AI-powered BI with Snowflake and Amazon Quick Read More »

Loka transformed customer voice interactions by building a conversational AI agent with Amazon Nova 2 Sonic that keeps customers engaged with natural, responsive experiences. Their AWS-based solution achieves high speech reasoning accuracy on Big Bench Audio while delivering significantly lower costs and faster response times than traditional voice AI pipelines. In this post, we demonstrate …

How Loka Built a Natural, Low-Latency Voice Agent with Amazon Nova 2 Sonic Read More »