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AWS – AWS Pricing Calculator, now generally available, supports discounts and purchase commitment
Today, AWS announces the general availability of the AWS Pricing Calculator in the AWS console. This launch enables customers to create more accurate and comprehensive cost estimates by providing two types of cost estimates: cost estimation for a workload, and estimation of a full AWS bill. You can also import your historical usage or create […]
AWS – Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.33
Kubernetes version 1.33 introduced several new features and bug fixes, and AWS is excited to announce that you can now use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Amazon EKS Distro to run Kubernetes version 1.33. Starting today, you can create new EKS clusters using version 1.33 and upgrade existing clusters to version 1.33 using the […]
GCP – Boost your Search and RAG agents with Vertex AI’s new state-of-the-art Ranking API
The AI era has supercharged expectations: users now issue more complex queries and demand pinpoint results, meaning there’s an 82% chance of losing a customer if they can’t quickly find what they need. Similarly, AI agents require ultra-relevant context for reliable task execution. However, when traditional search methods deliver noise – with generally up to […]
GCP – Announcing new capabilities for boosted productivity in Colab Enterprise
Colab Enterprise is a collaborative, managed notebook environment with the security and compliance capabilities of Google Cloud. Powerful integrated AI, seamless collaboration tools, enterprise readiness, and zero-config flexible compute are some of the many features making Colab Enterprise a trusted tool for developers at companies of all sizes. Today, we’re excited to announce new productivity […]
GCP – Pluto AI: Revolutionizing AI accessibility and innovation at Magyar Telekom
In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) stands as a transformative force, reshaping industries and redefining possibilities. Recognizing AI’s potential and leveraging its data landscape on Google Cloud, Magyar Telekom, Deutsche Telekom’s Hungarian operator, embarked on a journey to empower its workforce with AI knowledge and tools. This endeavor led to the creation […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: How governments can use AI to improve threat detection and reduce cost
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for May 2025. Today, Enrique Alvarez, public sector advisor, Office of the CISO, explores how government agencies can use AI to improve threat detection — and save money at the same time. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google […]
AWS – Amazon GameLift Servers SDKs are now on GitHub
The Amazon GameLift Servers team is excited to announce that the Amazon GameLift Server SDKs for C++, C#, and Go are now open source and available on the amazon-gamelift GitHub organization. The game engine plugins and SDKs for Unreal Engine and Unity along with developer scripts have been moved under the same GitHub organization for improved […]
AWS – Amazon FSx for Lustre adds new storage class that delivers the lowest-cost and only fully elastic Lustre file storage
Amazon FSx for Lustre launches the Intelligent-Tiering storage class, which delivers virtually unlimited scalability, the only fully elastic Lustre storage, and the lowest-cost Lustre file storage in the cloud. FSx for Lustre is a fully managed storage service that delivers terabytes per second of throughput, millions of IOPS, and the fastest storage performance for GPU […]
AWS – Amazon EMR enables enhanced Apache Spark capabilities for Lake Formation tables with full table access
Amazon EMR now supports read and write operations from Apache Spark jobs on AWS Lake Formation registered tables when the job role has full table access. This capability enables Data Manipulation Language (DML) operations including CREATE, ALTER, DELETE, UPDATE, and MERGE INTO statements on Apache Hive and Iceberg tables from within the same Apache Spark […]
AWS – Announcing new Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers for AWS Serverless and Containers
Today, AWS announces the release of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and Finch. MCP servers are a standard interface to enhance AI-assisted application development by equipping AI code assistants with real-time, contextual understanding of AWS Serverless and Container services including AWS Lambda, […]