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GCP – Google Cloud Serverless for Apache Spark: high-performance, unified with BigQuery
At Google Cloud, we’re committed to providing the most streamlined, powerful, and cost-effective production- and enterprise-ready serverless Spark experience. To that end, we’re thrilled to announce a significant evolution for Apache Spark on Google Cloud, with Google Cloud Serverless for Apache Spark. Serverless Spark is now also generally available directly within the BigQuery experience. This […]
GCP – Lessons from the field: What decision-makers want to know about multi-agentic systems
This year, we’ve spent dozens of hours synthesizing hundreds of conversations with CXOs across leading organizations, trying to uncover their biggest thorns when it comes to building Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). These conversations have revealed a clear pattern: MAS is helping enterprises re-think clunky legacy processes, but many CXOs are focused on automating those legacy processes […]
GCP – Datadog expands its AI observability capabilities with new integrations across the Google Cloud stack
Datadog and Google Cloud have long provided customers with powerful capabilities that enable performant, scalable, and differentiated applications in the cloud; in the past two years alone, Datadog’s revenue on Google Cloud Marketplace has more than doubled. As these customers bring Google Cloud’s AI capabilities into their technology stacks, they require observability tools that allow […]
AWS – Amazon Elastic VMware Service now integrates with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS), an AWS service that enables you to run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, now integrates with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a fully managed AWS service built on NetApp’s ONTAP file system. With this integration, Amazon EVS customers can use FSx for ONTAP as […]
AWS – AWS launches public preview of Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS)
Today, AWS is expanding access to Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) through public preview. Building on the momentum from the initial private preview announcement at AWS re:Invent 2024, public preview opens access for AWS customers who want to run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)-based workloads within their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). During public […]
AWS – AWS Glue now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region
AWS Glue, a serverless data integration service, is now available in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) region, enabling customers to build and run their ETL workloads closer to their data sources in these regions. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it simple to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning, […]
AWS – AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for CloudWatch Log Insights
AWS customers can now access CloudWatch Log Insights from within the AWS Console Mobile App to search and analyze log data in CloudWatch Logs while on the go. AWS customers can perform queries to more efficiently and effectively respond to operational issues. If an issue occurs, AWS customers can use CloudWatch Log Insights to identify […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches profile explorer for unified customer views
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now offers profile explorer, a new capability that enables organizations to access a unified, customized view of Amazon Connect Customer Profiles. This intuitive interface enables organizations to better understand and engage with their customers across all touchpoints, enhancing the existing Amazon Connect Customer Profiles service by providing real-time user access to […]
AWS – Amazon EFS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) for both EFS APIs and mount targets, enabling customers to manage and mount file systems using IPv4, IPv6, or dual-stack clients. This launch helps customers meet IPv6 compliance requirements and eliminates the need for complex infrastructure to handle IPv6 to IPv4 address translation. […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch agent adds support for EBS detailed performance statistics
Amazon CloudWatch agent now supports collecting detailed performance statistics for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes attached to Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon EKS nodes. The CloudWatch agent can be configured to collect NVMe-based metrics including queue depth, number of operations, bytes sent and received, and time spent on read and write I/O operations, making […]