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AWS – Amazon OpenSearch UI is now available in AWS Europe (Stockholm) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Regions
Amazon OpenSearch Service expands its modernized operational analytics experience to the AWS Europe (Stockholm) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Regions, enabling users to gain insights across data spanning managed domains and serverless collections from a single endpoint. The expansion includes Workspaces to enhance collaboration and productivity, allowing teams to create dedicated spaces. Discover is revamped […]

AWS – AWS Marketplace introduces new fulfillment experience for container products
Today, AWS announces a new fulfillment experience for container products in AWS Marketplace, enhancing the deployment and management of container-based software from AWS Partners. The new fulfillment experience helps to reduce complexity and improve workflow efficiency by making it easier to understand available deployment options, and providing explanations of each option’s purpose and implications. The […]

AWS – New Guidance in the Well-Architected Tool
The latest Well-Architected Framework update is now available in the Well-Architected Tool, featuring updates and improvements for 78 new best practices that offer actionable guidance to help organizations build more secure, resilient, scalable, and sustainable workloads. With this release, the Well-Architected Framework has refreshed 100% of each pillar, including the Reliability Pillar, with 14 of […]

AWS – Amazon MSK expands support for Graviton3 based M7g instances for Standard and Express brokers in AWS Middle East (UAE) Region
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Graviton3-based M7g instances for both Standard brokers and Express brokers for MSK Provisioned clusters in Middle East (UAE) AWS region. Graviton M7G instances for Standard brokers deliver up to 24% compute cost savings and up to 29% higher write and read throughput over comparable MSK […]

AWS – Announcing pgvector 0.8.0 support in Aurora PostgreSQL
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports pgvector 0.8.0, an open-source extension for PostgreSQL for storing vector embeddings in your database. pgvector provides vector similarity search capabilities that enables Aurora use in generative artificial intelligence (AI) semantic search and retrieval-augemented generation (RAG) applications. pgvector 0.8.0 includes improvements to PostgreSQL query planner’s selection of index when filters […]

GCP – Transforming customer experiences with AI agents and the next generation Customer Engagement Suite
Envision a future where every customer interaction is not only seamless and personalized, but delivers enduring experiences that build brand loyalty. Today, AI agents are already transforming the ways businesses engage with customers — including advanced conversational agents. In fact, these conversational AI agents are enabling new levels of hyper-personalized, multimodal conversations with customers, and […]

GCP – Scale enterprise search and agent adoption with Google Agentspace
AI agents are a major leap from traditional automation or chatbots. They can execute complex workflows, from planning and research, to generating and testing novel ideas. But to scale, businesses need an AI-ready information ecosystem that can work across silos, easy ways to create and adopt agents, and enterprise-grade security and compliance. That’s why we […]

GCP – Driving secure innovation with AI and Google Unified Security
Today at Google Cloud Next, we are announcing Google Unified Security, new security agents, and innovations across our security portfolio designed to deliver stronger security outcomes and enable every organization to make Google a part of their security team. Introducing Google Unified Security Enterprise infrastructure continues to grow in size and complexity, expanding the attack […]

GCP – Google Axion processors boost AlloyDB, Cloud SQL, major customers, and ISVs
Last year we announced Google Axion processors, our first custom Arm®-based CPUs. We built Axion to address our customers’ need for general-purpose processors that maximize performance, reduce infrastructure costs, and help them meet their sustainability goals. Since then, Axion has shaken up the market for cloud compute. Customers love its price-performance — up to 65% […]
GCP – New services to help enterprises adopt AI from Google Cloud Consulting
Enterprise customers are coming to Google Cloud to transform their businesses with AI, and many are turning to our seasoned experts at Google Cloud Consulting to help implement these innovations. Working alongside our many partners, Google Cloud Consulting teams are helping customers identify the right use cases for AI, deliver them safely and securely, and […]