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GCP – Tata Steel enhances equipment and operations monitoring with the Manufacturing Data Engine
Tata Steel is one of the world’s largest steel producers, with an annual crude steel capacity exceeding 35 millions tons. With such a large and global output, we needed a way to improve asset availability, product quality, operational safety, and environmental monitoring. By centralizing data from diverse sources and implementing advanced analytics with Google Cloud, […]
GCP – Calling all devs: Join the GKE Turns 10 Hackathon and build with agentic AI
For ten years, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) has been at the forefront of innovation, powering everything from microservices to cloud-native AI and edge computing. To honor this special birthday, we’re challenging you to catapult your microservices into the future with cutting-edge agentic AI. Are you ready to celebrate? Build AI Agents on GKE in the […]
GCP – Save more with expanded coverage for Compute Flex CUDs
We’re excited to announce an expansion to our Compute Flexible Committed Use Discounts (Flex CUDs), providing you with greater flexibility across your cloud environment. Your spend commitments now stretch further and cover a wider array of Google Cloud services and VM families, translating into greater savings for your workloads. Flex CUDs are spend-based commitments that […]
GCP – Investigate fast with AI: Gemini Cloud Assist for Dataproc & Serverless for Apache Spark
Apache Spark is a fundamental part of most modern lakehouse architectures, and Google Cloud’s Dataproc provides a powerful, fully managed platform for running Spark applications. However, for data engineers and scientists, debugging failures and performance bottlenecks in distributed systems remains a universal challenge. Manually troubleshooting a Spark job requires piecing together clues from disparate sources […]
AWS – AWS Config now supports resource tags for IAM Policies
AWS Config now tracks resource tags for IAM policy resource types, enhancing the granularity of metadata you can capture to assess, audit, and evaluate configurations of your IAM policies. With this enhancement, you can now track resource tags and their changes for IAM Policies directly in your Config recorder. This capability allows you to scope […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database now supports PostgreSQL 16.9
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is now available with PostgreSQL version 16.9 compatibility. This release contains product improvements and bug fixes made by the PostgreSQL community, along with Aurora Limitless-specific additions such as support for the hstore extension, the auto_explain extension, and various performance improvements. The hstore extension allows for storing sets of key/value pairs within […]
AWS – Announcing general availability of Organizational Notification Configurations for AWS User Notifications
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Organizational Notification Configurations for AWS User Notifications. This launch allows AWS Organizations users to centrally configure and view notifications across their organization. You can use the Management Account or Delegated Administrators (DAs) to configure and view notifications about accounts included in specific organizational units (OUs) or all accounts […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Custom now supports the latest GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server now supports the latest General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for Microsoft SQL Server. This includes support for Microsoft SQL Server 2019 CU32 KB5063757 (RDS version 15.00.4440.1.v1) and SQL Server 2022 CU20 KB5063814 (RDS version 16.00.4210.1.v1). The GDR updates address vulnerabilities described in CVE-2025-49758, CVE-2025-24999, CVE-2025-49759, […]
AWS – AWS Backup now supports organization-wide reports in six additional regions
AWS Backup Audit Manager now supports cross-account, cross-Region reports in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne), Europe (Spain, Zurich), and Middle East (UAE) Regions. Now, you can use your AWS Organizations’ management or delegated administrator account to generate aggregated cross-account and cross-Region reports on your data protection policies and retrieve operational data about your backup and […]
GCP – Agent Factory Recap: Keith Ballinger on AI, The Future of Development, and Vibe Coding
In Episode #6 of the Agent Factory podcast, Vlad Kolesnikov and I were joined by Keith Ballinger, VP and General Manager at Google Cloud, for a deep dive into the transformative future of software development with AI. We explore how AI agents are reshaping the developer’s role and boosting team productivity. This post guides you […]