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AWS – AWS WAF Targeted Bot Control, Fraud & DDoS Prevention Rule Group available in 3 more regions
Starting today, AWS WAF’s Targeted Bot Control, Fraud, and DDoS Prevention Rule Group are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Bangkok), and Mexico (Central) regions. These features help customers to stay protected against sophisticated bots, application layer DDoS and account takeover attacks. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps you […]

AWS – Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime, Browser, and Code Interpreter add support for VPC, AWS PrivateLink, CloudFormation, and tagging
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime, Browser, and Code Interpreter services now support Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) connectivity, AWS PrivateLink, AWS CloudFormation, and resource tagging, enabling developers to deploy AI agents with enhanced enterprise security and infrastructure automation capabilities. AgentCore Runtime enables you to deploy and scale dynamic AI agents securely using any framework, protocol, or […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 I7i instances now available in AWS Europe (Milan) and AWS US West (N. California)
AWS is announcing the availability of high performance Storage optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances in AWS Europe (Milan) and US West (N. California) regions. Powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, these new instances deliver up to 23% better compute performance and more than 10% better price […]

AWS – Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in 10 additional AWS regions
Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Europe (Milan), Middle East (Bahrain), Mexico (Central) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions. With the Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling feature, you can now support thousands of concurrent […]

GCP – Accelerating cloud migrations to Google Cloud with Searce to drive profitable growth
As companies transition past legacy infrastructure and set themselves up for growth in AI, multi-cloud, and platform engineering requirements, many are looking to Google Cloud for its reliability, performance, and cost benefits. To achieve successful migrations, especially at the enterprise level, organizations need a seasoned partner with a deep understanding of platform modernization, automation, and […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 C8gn instances are now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gn instances, powered by the latest-generation AWS Graviton4 processors, are available in the AWS Region Europe (Frankfurt, Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Singapore). The new instances provide up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 C7gn instances. Amazon EC2 C8gn instances feature the latest 6th generation AWS […]

AWS – AWS Network Firewall enhances application layer traffic controls
AWS Network Firewall, a managed service that makes it easy to deploy essential network protections for your Amazon VPCs, now provides enhanced default rules to handle TLS client hellos, and HTTP requests split across multiple packets. This update introduces new application layer drop and alert established default stateful actions, enabling customers to maintain security controls […]

AWS – Research and Engineering Studio on AWS 2025.09 is now available
Today we’re announcing Research and Engineering Studio (RES) on AWS 2025.09, which brings support for fractional GPUs, simplified AMI management, and enhanced deployment flexibility. This release also expands regional availability to include four additional AWS commercial Regions. Research and Engineering Studio on AWS is an open source solution that provides a web-based portal for administrators […]

AWS – Billing View now supports cost management data from multiple organizations
Today, AWS announces the general availability of new capabilities within AWS Billing and Cost Management that enable customers to manage their AWS spend across multiple organizations through a single AWS account. Customers can now share custom billing views containing cost management data with other AWS accounts outside their organization. Additionally, customers can combine multiple custom […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch now supports resource tags when monitoring vended metrics
Today, Amazon CloudWatch announces support for a new tag-based telemetry experience to help customers monitor their metrics and set up their alarms using AWS resources tags. This new capability simplifies monitoring cloud infrastructure at scale by automatically adapting alarms and metrics analysis as resources change. DevOps engineers and cloud administrators can now create dynamic monitoring […]