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GCP – AI deployment made easy: Deploy your app to Cloud Run from AI Studio or MCP-compatible AI agents
Cloud Run has become a go-to app hosting solution for its remarkable simplicity, flexibility, and scalability. But the age of AI-assisted development is here, and going from idea to application is faster and more streamlined than ever. Today, we’re excited to make AI deployments easier and more accessible by introducing new ways to deploy your […]
GCP – Google AI Edge Portal: On-device machine learning testing at scale
Today, we’re excited to announce Google AI Edge Portal in private preview, Google Cloud’s new solution for testing and benchmarking on-device machine learning (ML) at scale. Machine learning on mobile devices enables amazing app experiences. But how will your model truly perform across the vast, diverse, and ever-changing landscape of mobile devices? Manually testing at […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals introduces auto-monitor support for EKS workloads
CloudWatch Application Signals, an application performance monitoring (APM) tool that simplifies health and performance monitoring for applications, now makes instrumentation easier for your EKS applications through a single configuration flag within the Amazon CloudWatch Observability add-on. Once enabled, you can gain access to pre-built, standardized dashboards within CloudWatch Application Signals and track application performance against […]
AWS – The next generation of Amazon SageMaker is now available in an additional region
The next generation of Amazon SageMaker is now available in AWS Europe (Stockholm). Amazon SageMaker is the center for all your data, analytics, and AI. From SageMaker Unified Studio, you can discover your data and put it to work using familiar AWS tools for model development, generative AI app development, data processing, and SQL analytics. […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.5.29 and 10.6.22
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.5.29 and 10.6.22. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community. You […]
AWS – AWS service changes
At AWS, we understand that the decision to end support for a service or feature significantly impacts customers. We approach such decisions only after careful consideration. When end of support is necessary, we provide customers detailed guidance on available alternatives and comprehensive support for migration, ensuring minimal disruption to customer operations. We understand that changes […]
AWS – Announcing customer-initiated reboot migrations for EC2 Scheduled Events
AWS now enables automatic instance migration when you reboot after receiving EC2 scheduled reboot event notifications. This new capability of customer-initiated reboot migrations enables customers to action scheduled reboot event notifications by rebooting the instance at a time of their choosing which will then automatically migrate their instance to different hardware, eliminating the pending scheduled […]
AWS – AWS Organizations now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
AWS Organizations customers can now use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses, via our new dual-stack endpoints to connect to AWS Organizations over the public internet using IPv6, IPv4, or dual-stack clients. The existing AWS Organizations endpoints supporting IPv4 will remain available for backwards compatibility. To learn more on best practices for configuring IPv6 in […]
AWS – AWS Site-to-Site VPN Tunnel Endpoint Lifecycle Control is now available in AWS Mexico (Central) Region
AWS Site-to-Site VPN Tunnel Endpoint Lifecycle Control is now available in AWS Mexico (Central) Region, providing you with better visibility and control of your VPN tunnel maintenance updates. AWS Site-to-Site VPN is a fully-managed service that allows you to create a secure connection between your data center or branch office and your AWS resources using […]
GCP – Google Cloud and Spring AI 1.0
A big thank you to Fran Hinkelmann and Aaron Wanjala for their contributions and support in making this blog post happen. After a period of intense development, Spring AI 1.0 has officially landed, bringing a robust and comprehensive solution for AI engineering right to your Java ecosystem. This isn’t just another library; it’s a strategic […]