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GCP – Investing in AI, collaboration and the next generation of leaders
AI is positively transforming government operations and being used to support mission outcomes across a wide range of services, from improving patient care, enhancing learning and education, improving public safety, streamlining citizen services, and so much more. Nearly 400 technology leaders from state and local government, research, and higher education institutions discussed the transformative impact […]
AWS – Database Insights provides on-demand analysis for RDS MySQL and RDS MariaDB
Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights expands the availability of its on-demand analysis experience to the RDS for MySQL and RDS for MariaDB database engines. This feature leverages machine learning models to help identify performance bottlenecks during the selected time period, and gives advice on what to do next. This launch allows you to analyze database performance […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Db2 now supports M7i and R7i instances types
Amazon Relational Database (RDS) for Db2 now supports M7i and R7i database instance types. M7i and R7i are the latest Intel-based offering and are available with a new maximum instance size of 48xlarge, which brings 50% more vCPU and memory than the maximum size of M6i and R6i instance types. M7i and R7i instances are […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 announces Time-based Copy for AMIs
Amazon EC2 announces the general availability of Time-based Copy for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). Similar to Time-based Copy for EBS snapshots , this feature enables customers to meet their compliance objectives by ensuring that AMIs are copied within and across AWS Regions within a specified duration. Prior to today, customers could not predict or control […]
AWS – AWS Batch now supports resource aware scheduling
AWS Batch now supports job scheduling that takes into account consumable resources (CRs) such as third-party license tokens, database access bandwidth, budgetary limits, and more. With resource aware scheduling you can set up sets of tokens representing these resources, which will then be consumed by the running AWS Batch jobs. This will help you reduce […]
AWS – Amazon Connect reduces telephony pricing in Vietnam
Amazon Connect has reduced prices for Vietnam in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region. This includes price reductions of Direct Inward Dial (DID) minutes by 95% from $0.0815/min to $0.004/min, and Outbound minutes by 44% from $0.0896/min to $0.05/min. The new Telephony Rates are now available as part of the standard pricing for Amazon Connect service […]
AWS – Monitor and observe apps across multiple accounts with Application Signals
CloudWatch Application Signals, an application performance monitoring (APM) tool that simplifies health and performance monitoring for applications now supports the ability to monitor your applications’ services and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) across multiple source accounts from one monitoring account. Centralized application observability across accounts in a region provides single-pane-of-glass tracking, health maintenance, and resource optimization. […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 F2 instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney)
Starting today, the FPGA-powered Amazon EC2 F2 instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) region. F2 instances are the second generation of FPGA powered instances and are the first to feature an FPGA with 16 GB of high bandwidth memory (HBM). Compared to F1 instances, the F2 instances have up to 3x vCPUs […]
GCP – Demonstrating the AI-driven telecom at Mobile World Congress
Telecoms, like all businesses, are wondering how AI can transform their businesses. And there’s no better way to display how to build the AI-driven telecom than with demos. Join us at Mobile World Congress 2025, March 3-6 in Barcelona Hall 2 Booth #2H40, where we’ll be highlighting key agent use cases where AI is becoming […]
GCP – The AI-driven telecom: How we’re powering transformation
AI is driving unprecedented change and evolution across every industry, and the telecommunications sector is at a particularly interesting crossroads: The industry is standardizing on 5G; data is growing exponentially; and customer expectations are quickly changing. Leading communication service providers (CSPs) are working with Google Cloud to adopt AI and lead the industry forward in […]