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AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics Adds Java Runtime for Lightweight API Monitoring
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports the Java programming language for authoring canaries, enabling developers to write monitoring scripts using the Java 21 runtime environment. This new runtime, syn-java-1.0, allows customers to leverage existing Java expertise to continuously monitor the availability and performance of their services and applications using CloudWatch Synthetics. With Java support, customers can […]
GCP – Google Cloud’s open lakehouse: Architected for AI, open data, and unrivaled performance
The Google Data Cloud is a uniquely integrated platform built on Google’s planet-scale infrastructure, infused with AI, and features an open lakehouse architecture for multimodal data. Already, organizations like Snap Inc. credit Google’s Data Cloud and open lakehouse architecture with empowering their data engineers and data scientists to do more with their data assets. “Partnering […]
GCP – Leveraging AI for incident response: Personalized Service Health integrated with Gemini Cloud Assist
In the event of a cloud incident, everyone wants swift and clear communication from the cloud provider, and to be able to leverage that information effectively. Personalized Service Health in the Google Cloud console addresses this need with fast, transparent, relevant, and actionable communications about Google Cloud service disruptions, customized to your specific footprint. This […]
GCP – Mark Your Calendar: APT41 Innovative Tactics
Written by: Patrick Whitsell Google Threat Intelligence Group’s (GTIG) mission is to protect Google’s billions of users and Google’s multitude of products and services. In late October 2024, GTIG discovered an exploited government website hosting malware being used to target multiple other government entities. The exploited site delivered a malware payload, which we have dubbed […]
GCP – Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) & GDC air-gapped appliance achieve DoD Impact Level 6 (IL6) authorization
Today, we’re thrilled to announce another significant milestone for our Google Public Sector business: Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) & GDC air-gapped appliance achieved Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Level 6 (IL6) authorization. Google Public Sector is now able to provide DoD customers with a secure, compliant, and cutting-edge cloud environment at IL6, enabling them to […]
AWS – AWS Neuron introduces NxD Inference GA, new features, and improved tools
Today, AWS announces the release of Neuron 2.23, featuring enhancements across inference, training capabilities, and developer tools. This release moves the NxD Inference library (NxDI) to general availability (GA), introduces new training capabilities including Context Parallelism and ORPO, and adds support for PyTorch 2.6 and JAX 0.5.3. The NxD Inference library moves from beta to […]
AWS – AWS Secrets Manager announces support for cost allocation tags for secrets
AWS Secrets Manager now enables customers to allocate and track cost for their secret usage. Customers can categorize their secret costs by department, team, or application using AWS cost allocation tags. You can leverage this feature by tagging your secrets and enabling them in Cost Allocation Tags. Secrets Manager is a fully managed service that […]
AWS – AWS Backup now supports Amazon Aurora DSQL
AWS Backup now provides fully managed data protection capabilities for Amazon Aurora DSQL, a serverless distributed SQL database for always available applications. As organizations build applications with Aurora DSQL, they can do so with confidence, knowing that their critical data is protected by AWS Backup. Using AWS Backup’s integration with AWS Organizations, you can centrally […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20250508
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL now supports new Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20250508. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of MySQL. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including minor and major version upgrades, in the Amazon RDS User […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora DSQL is now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Aurora DSQL, the fastest serverless, distributed SQL database with active-active high availability and multi-Region strong consistency. Aurora DSQL enables you build always available applications with virtually unlimited scalability, the highest availability, and zero infrastructure management. It is designed to make scaling and resilience effortless for your applications and […]