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GCP – Ride-share-like planning with Agentic AI: Pluto7 + Google Agentspace transform supply Chains
Pluto7, an early Google partner, has integrated Agentspace into its Planning in a Box platform Pi Agent to address inventory and demand planning challenges. Agentspace provides an Agent Development Kit (ADK) for building specialized agents and an A2A (Agent-to-Agent) communication protocol for agent collaboration. These tools facilitate a shift from static workflows to dynamic, adaptive […]
GCP – Top 25 blogs of 2025… so far
Six months into 2025, we’ve already published hundreds of posts here on the Google Cloud blog. We asked ourselves, why wait until the busy end of the year to review your favorites? With everything from new AI models, product launches, emerging cyber threats, company news, certifications and customer stories, here is a mid-year recap that […]
GCP – Gemini CLI: Custom slash commands
Today, we’re announcing support for custom slash commands in Gemini CLI! This highly requested feature lets you define reusable prompts for streamlining interactions with Gemini CLI and helps improve efficiency across workflows. Slash commands can be defined in local .toml files or through Model Context Protocol (MCP) prompts. Get ready to transform how you leverage […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service launch pre-built dashboard for AWS Network Firewall
AWS announces a new AWS Network Firewall dashboard that enhances the integrated analytics experience between Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service. This expands the existing set of pre-built dashboards that include Amazon VPC, AWS CloudTrail, and AWS WAF logs. The dashboard delivers insights into network metrics, including traffic patterns, protocols, AWS PrivateLink endpoints, and TLS […]
AWS – AWS Entity Resolution launches advanced matching using Levenshtein, Cosine, and Soundex
Today, AWS Entity Resolution announces advanced rule-based fuzzy matching using Levenshtein Distance, Cosine Similarity, and Soundex algorithms to help organizations resolve consumer records across fragmented, inconsistent, and often incomplete datasets. This feature introduces tolerance for variations and typos, enabling potentially more accurate and flexible entity resolution without requiring the manual pre-processing of records. Advanced rule-based […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.10 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.42) is now generally available
Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL – Compatible Edition 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) will support MySQL 8.0.42 through Aurora MySQL v3.10. In addition to several security enhancements and bug fixes, MySQL 8.0.42 contains performance improvements for parallel replication using writeset dependency tracking, as well as enhanced debugging capabilities within the InnoDB storage engine. Aurora MySQL […]
AWS – Database Insights adds support for fleets of Aurora Limitless databases
CloudWatch Database Insights announces support of fleet monitoring for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless databases. Database Insights is a database observability solution that provides a curated experience designed for DevOps engineers, application developers, and database administrators (DBAs) to expedite database troubleshooting and gain a holistic view into their database fleet health. Database Insights consolidates logs and […]
AWS – Amazon CloudFront introduces new origin response timeout controls
Amazon CloudFront now offers two capabilities to enhance origin timeout controls: a response completion timeout and support for custom response timeout values for Amazon S3 origins. These enhancements provide more granular control over origin response timeouts, allowing you to deliver consistent and reliable user experiences regardless of variation in network conditions or origin performance. Previously, […]
AWS – AWS announces 100G expansion in Chennai, India.
Today, AWS announced the expansion of 100 Gbps dedicated connections at the AWS Direct Connect location in the STT data center near Chennai, India. You can now establish private, direct network access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones from this location. This is the fourth […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region
Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region, enabling customers to deploy essential network protections for all their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). AWS Network Firewall is a managed firewall service that is easy to deploy. The service automatically scales with network traffic volume to provide high-availability protections without […]