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GCP – Happy birthday, GKE! Let’s celebrate with new features and better pricing
“While containers make packaging apps easier, a powerful cluster manager and orchestration system is necessary to bring your workloads to production.” Ten years ago, these words opened the blog post announcing Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The need for a managed Kubernetes platform is as important today as it was then, especially as workloads have evolved […]
GCP – Announcing general availability of Firestore with MongoDB compatibility
At Cloud Next ’25, we announced the preview of Firestore with MongoDB compatibility, empowering developers to build cost-effective, scalable, and highly reliable apps on Firestore’s serverless database using a familiar MongoDB-compatible API. Today, we’re announcing that Firestore with MongoDB compatibility is now generally available. With this launch, the 600,000 active developers within the Firestore community […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Redo Transport Compression
Amazon RDS now supports Redo Transport Compression, a feature that compresses redo data before it is transmitted to a standby database. By reducing the amount of data sent over the network, it improves redo transport performance. Because of faster redo log transport, customers can achieve a lower Recovery Point Objective (RPO), which is the amount […]
AWS – AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now available in Asia Pacific (Thailand), (Malaysia), and Europe (Spain).
We are excited to announce the general availability of AWS Elastic Beanstalk in Asia Pacific (Thailand), (Malaysia), and Europe (Spain). 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 developers to focus on writing code. […]
GCP – Widespread Data Theft Targets Salesforce Instances via Salesloft Drift
Written by: Austin Larsen, Matt Lin, Tyler McLellan, Omar ElAhdan Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) is issuing an advisory to alert organizations about a widespread data theft campaign, carried out by the actor tracked as UNC6395. Beginning as early as Aug. 8, 2025 through at least Aug. 18, 2025, the actor targeted Salesforce customer […]
GCP – Building next-gen visuals with Gemini 2.5 Flash Image on Vertex AI
Today, we announced native image generation and editing in Gemini 2.5 Flash to deliver higher-quality images and more powerful creative control. Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is State of the Art (SOTA) for both generation and image editing. For creative use cases, this means you can create richer, more dynamic visuals and edit images until they’re […]
AWS – Aurora DSQL now supports resilience testing with AWS Fault Injection Service
Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports application resiliency testing with AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS), a fully managed service for running controlled fault injection experiments to improve application performance, observability, and resilience. With this launch, customers can simulate real-world scenarios that disrupt connections to Aurora DSQL clusters, such as during regional failures, enabling them to observe […]
AWS – AWS Deadline Cloud now supports Cinema 4D and Redshift on Linux service-managed fleets
Starting today, AWS Deadline Cloud supports running Maxon Cinema 4D and Redshift render jobs on Linux service-managed fleets. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for teams creating computer-generated graphics and visual effects, for films, television and broadcasting, web content, and design. Previously available only on Windows fleets, you can […]
AWS – AWS Transform for .NET adds support for Azure repos and Artifacts feeds for NuGet packages
AWS Transform for .NET now supports Azure DevOps repos alongside GitHub, GitLab, and BitBucket. You can connect your Azure DevOps repositories directly to AWS Transform to discover, assess, transform hundreds of repositories in parallel, and run unit tests. AWS Transform automatically resolves dependencies from Azure Artifacts NuGet packages during transformation, helping you modernize .NET Framework […]
AWS – Amazon Polly launches more synthetic generative voices
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of seven highly expressive Amazon Polly Generative voices in English, French, Polish and Dutch. Amazon Polly is a fully-managed service that turns text into lifelike speech, enabling developers and builders to speechify their applications for conversational AI or for speech content creation. We are excited to share that […]