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  • AWS Introduces Open Source Model Context Protocol Servers for ECS, EKS, and Serverless

    2 days ago | infoq.com | Steef-Jan Wiggers

    AWS has released a set of open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers on GitHub for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), and AWS Serverless. These are specialized servers that enhance the capabilities of AI development assistants, such as Amazon Q Developer, by providing them with real-time, contextual information specific to these AWS services.

  • Virt8ra Sovereign Cloud Expands with Six New European Providers

    4 days ago | infoq.com | Steef-Jan Wiggers

    Virt8ra, a significant European initiative positioning itself as a major alternative to US-based cloud vendors, has announced a substantial expansion of its federated infrastructure.

  • Azure AI Search Unveils Agentic Retrieval for Smarter Conversational AI

    1 week ago | infoq.com | Steef-Jan Wiggers

    Microsoft has launched the public preview of agentic retrieval in Azure AI Search, a query engine that autonomously plans and executes retrieval strategies for complex questions. According to the company, it enhances answer relevance in conversational AI by up to 40% compared to traditional RAG. This multi-turn system leverages conversation history and Azure OpenAI to break down queries into focused subqueries, executed in parallel across text and vector embeddings.

  • AWS Launches Centralized Product Lifecycle Page: Transparency and Consolidating Deprecation Info

    1 week ago | infoq.com | Steef-Jan Wiggers

    AWS recently launched its Product Lifecycle page, a new centralized resource providing comprehensive information on service availability changes. With this initiative, the company aims to streamline how customers track service deprecations, end-of-support timelines, and restrictions on new customer access.

  • Azure MCP Serverがパブリックプレビューに登場：AIエージェント機能を拡張

    1 week ago | infoq.com | Steef-Jan Wiggers

    原文リンク(2025-04-25) マイクロソフトはオープンソースAzure MCP Serverのパブリックプレビュー、Azureリソースへのアクセスを提供することによりAIエージェント機能を強化する新しいツール、を発表した。Azure MCP ServerはAIエージェントがファイルストレージ、データベース、ログなどのAzureサービスとやり取りしたり、CLIコマンドを実行したりできるようにする。 Model Context Protocol（MCP）は、AIエージェントと外部リソースとのやり取りを標準化するオープンプロトコルである。Azure MCP Serverはこのプロトコルを実装し、AzureサービスをAIシステムに公開する。マイクロソフトによると、これによって開発者は、Azureリソースのコンテキストを意識したエージェントを構築できるようになる。例えば、エージェントは自然言語を使ってAzure Cosmos DBにクエリを発行したり、Azure Storageファイルにアクセスしたり、Azure Log Analyticsのログを分析したりできる。 Azure...

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