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GCP – How to connect Looker to Gemini Enterprise in minutes, with MCP Toolbox and ADK
We can all agree that the quality of AI-driven answers relies on the consistency of the underlying data. But AI models, while powerful, lack business context out of the box. As more organizations ask questions of their data using natural language, it is increasingly important to unify business measures and dimensions, ensure consistency company-wide. If […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Our 2026 Cybersecurity Forecast report
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for December 2025. Today, Francis deSouza, COO and president, Security Products, Google Cloud, shares our Cybersecurity Forecast report for the coming year, with additional insights from our Office of the CISO colleagues. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google […]
AWS – Amazon MSK Replicator is now available in ten additional AWS Regions
You can now use Amazon MSK Replicator to replicate streaming data across Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) clusters in ten additional AWS Regions: Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), Europe (Zurich) and Israel (Tel […]
AWS – AWS Shield network security director now supports multi-account analysis
Today, AWS Shield announces multi-account network security management and automated network analysis for network security director, which is currently in preview. AWS Shield network security director provides visibility into the AWS resources in your AWS organization, identifies missing or misconfigured network security services, and recommends remediation steps. With network security director, you can specify a […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Managed Scaling is now available in 7 additional AWS regions
We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR Managed Scaling is now available for EMR on EC2 customers in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia, New Zealand, Taipei, Thailand), Canada West (Calgary), Mexico (Central), and US Gameday Northeast (Illinois) AWS Regions. Amazon EMR Managed Scaling automatically resizes the EC2 instances in your EMR cluster for the best […]
AWS – AWS DataSync increases scalability and performance for on-premises file transfers
AWS DataSync Enhanced mode now supports data transfers between on-premises file servers and Amazon S3, enabling customers to transfer datasets that scale to virtually unlimited numbers of files at higher levels of performance than DataSync Basic mode. AWS DataSync is a secure, high-speed file transfer service that optimizes data movement over a network. Enhanced mode […]
GCP – Multiple Threat Actors Exploit React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182)
Written by: Aragorn Tseng, Robert Weiner, Casey Charrier, Zander Work, Genevieve Stark, Austin Larsen Introduction On Dec. 3, 2025, a critical unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in React Server Components, tracked as CVE-2025-55182 (aka “React2Shell”), was publicly disclosed. Shortly after disclosure, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) had begun observing widespread exploitation across many threat […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 X2iedn instances now available in AWS Europe (Zurich) region
Starting today, memory-optimized Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X2iedn instances are available in AWS Europe (Zurich) region. These instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and built with AWS Nitro System, are designed for memory-intensive workloads. They deliver improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous generation […]
AWS – AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now available in additional regions
We are excited to announce the general availability of AWS Elastic Beanstalk in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) (Melbourne), (Malaysia), (Hyderabad), Canada West (Calgary), and Europe (Zurich). AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that simplifies application deployment and management on AWS. The service automatically handles deployment, capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring, allowing […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 X2iedn instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) region
Starting today, memory-optimized Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X2iedn instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) region. These instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and built with AWS Nitro System, are designed for memory-intensive workloads. They deliver improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous […]