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AWS – AWS announces Nitro Enclaves are now available in all AWS Regions
AWS Nitro Enclaves is an Amazon EC2 capability that enables customers to create isolated compute environments (enclaves) to further protect and securely process highly sensitive data within their EC2 instances. Nitro Enclaves helps customers reduce the attack surface area for their most sensitive data processing applications. There is no additional cost other than the cost […]
GCP – At Google, the future is multiarch; AI and automation are helping us get there
Google Axion processors, our first custom Arm®-based CPUs, mark a major step in delivering both performance and energy efficiency for Google Cloud customers and our first-party services, providing up to 65% better price-performance and up to 60% more energy-efficient than comparable instances on Google Cloud. We put Axion processors to the test: running Google production […]
GCP – Build trust and context for AI with lineage, now at column-level granularity
Effective AI systems operate on a foundation of context and continuous trust. When you use Dataplex Universal Catalog, Google Cloud’s unified data governance platform, the metadata that describes your data is no longer static — it’s where your AI applications can go to know where to find data and what to trust. But when you […]
GCP – What’s new in Cloud Armor: Innovations to boost security posture, threat protection
In today’s complex threat landscape, effectively managing network security is crucial — especially across diverse environments. Organizations are looking to advanced capabilities to strengthen security, enhance threat protection, and simplify network security operations for hybrid and multicloud deployments. We’re excited to announce new capabilities in Cloud Armor, featuring more comprehensive security policies and granular network […]
GCP – SmarterX leans on Google Cloud to deliver custom LLMs for its customers
Editor’s note: Today we hear about SmarterX, which helps retailers, manufacturers, and logistics companies minimize regulatory risk, maximize sales, and protect consumers and the environment by giving them AI-driven tools to safely and compliantly sell, ship, store, and dispose of their products. SmarterX uses BigQuery, Gemini, and Vertex AI to collect, process, and analyze vast […]
AWS – Amazon Corretto October 2025 Quarterly Updates
On October 21, 2025 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 25.0.1, 21.0.9, 17.0.17, 11.0.29, 8u472 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. This release of Corretto JDK binaries for Generic Linux, Alpine and macOS will include […]
AWS – Amazon SES adds IP observability for Dedicated IP addresses (managed)
Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) added visibility into the IP addresses used by Dedicated IP Addresses – Managed (DIP-M) pools. Customers can now find out the exact addresses in use when sending emails through DIP-M pools to mailbox providers. Customers can also see Microsoft Smart Network Data Services (SNDS) metrics for these IP addresses, […]
GCP – Pro-Russia Information Operations Leverage Russian Drone Incursions into Polish Airspace
Written by: Alden Wahlstrom, David Mainor Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) observed multiple instances of pro-Russia information operations (IO) actors promoting narratives related to the reported incursion of Russian drones into Polish airspace that occurred on Sept. 9-10, 2025. The identified IO activity, which mobilized in response to this event and the ensuing political […]
AWS – Amazon Nova now supports the customization of content moderation settings
Amazon Nova models now support the customization of content moderation settings for approved business use cases that require processing or generating sensitive content. Organizations with approved business use cases can adjust content moderation settings across four domains: safety, sensitive content, fairness, and security. These settings allow customers to adjust specific settings relevant to their business […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Data Automation supports additional formats for video and faster processing for images
Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) now supports AVI, MKV, and WEBM file formats along with the AV1 and MPEG-4 Visual (Part 2) codecs, enabling you to generate structured insights across a broader range of video content. Additionally, BDA delivers up to 50% faster image processing. BDA automates the generation of insights from unstructured multimodal content […]