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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 […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports external voice in five additional AWS Regions
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports external voice in the Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London) AWS Regions. Amazon Connect integrates with other voice systems for real-time and post-call analytics to help improve customer experience and agent performance with your existing voice system. Amazon Connect Contact Lens provides […]
AWS – AWS B2B Data Interchange introduces custom validation rules
AWS B2B Data Interchange now supports custom validation rules for X12 EDI documents, enabling you to expand and alter the validation logic of the X12 ANSI standard to align with custom agreements with your trading partners. AWS B2B Data Interchange automates validation, transformation, and generation of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) documents such as ANSI X12 […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 G6 instances are now available in Middle East (UAE) Region
Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs are now available in Middle East (UAE). G6 instances can be used for a wide range of graphics-intensive and machine learning use cases. Customers can use G6 instances for deploying ML models for natural language processing, language translation, video […]