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AWS – Amazon SNS enhances cross-Region delivery capabilities
We’re excited to announce that Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) has expanded its cross-Region delivery capabilities, providing more flexibility for customers using opt-in Regions. This update brings three improvements: Amazon SNS to Amazon SQS delivery between opt-in Regions: You can now deliver messages from an Amazon SNS topic in one opt-in Region to an […]
AWS – AWS Lambda enables developers to debug functions running in the cloud from VS Code IDE
AWS Lambda now supports remote debugging in Visual Studio Code (VS Code), enabling developers to debug their Lambda functions running in the cloud directly from their local IDE. With this new capability, developers can use familiar debugging tools like breakpoints, variable inspection, and step-through debugging with functions deployed in the cloud without modifying their existing […]
AWS – AWS Lambda announces low latency processing for Kafka events
AWS Lambda now supports low latency (sub 100ms) event processing for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) and self-managed Apache Kafka event sources in Provisioned mode for Kafka ESM. Customers can now set their MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds parameter to 0 in Kafka ESM configurations, enabling real-time processing of Kafka events. This enhancement significantly reduces end-to-end […]
AWS – AWS Lambda bridges console to VS Code for unified serverless development experience
AWS Lambda now enables seamless transition from console to Visual Studio Code (VS Code) IDE. This new console-to-IDE integration eliminates the friction between cloud and local development environments for serverless applications. Developers starting in the console require more sophisticated development capabilities of local IDE as applications evolve in complexity. Previously, they had to manually configure […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB Streams introduces a new API feature for faster and more efficient stream shard discovery
Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports a new ShardFilter parameter in the DescribeStream API to simplify and optimize the consumption of streaming data. You can use ShardFilter parameter to quickly discover child shards after a parent shard has been closed, significantly improving efficiency and responsiveness when processing data from DynamoDB Streams. DynamoDB Streams is a serverless […]
AWS – Amazon Connect agent workspace now includes real-time agent performance metrics
The Amazon Connect agent workspace now includes an out-of-box analytics dashboard that provides agents with insights into their individual performance, such as contacts handled and average handle time. The dashboard also show agents their assigned queue metrics, such as contacts in queue and longest wait time. These insights help agents improve their performance and make […]
GCP – AI/ML-ready Apache Spark with Dataproc
Apache Spark is the cornerstone for large-scale data processing, model training, and inference for AI/ML workloads. Yet, the complexities of environment configuration, dependency management, and MLOps integration can slow you down. To accelerate your AI/ML journey, Dataproc now delivers powerful, ML-ready capabilities for Spark. Available on both Dataproc on Compute Engine clusters and Google Cloud […]
GCP – Shaping the future together with our partners: The potential of agentic AI
Partners have always been central to the Google Cloud ecosystem, becoming more and more instrumental in bringing Google’s AI innovations to enterprises. I am inspired by how partners have already built more than 1,000 agentic use cases across every domain to solve deeply entrenched pain points for our shared customers. The emergence of agentic AI […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Our Big Sleep agent makes a big leap, and other AI news
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for July 2025. Today, Sandra Joyce, vice president, Google Threat Intelligence, talks about an incredible milestone with our Big Sleep AI agent, as well as other news from the intersection of security and AI. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to […]
AWS – Amazon MemoryDB now supports an AWS FIS action to pause multi-Region cluster replication
Amazon MemoryDB now supports an AWS Fault Injection Service action to pause replication for multi-Region clusters. FIS is a fully managed service for running controlled fault injection experiments to improve an application’s performance, observability, and resilience. Amazon MemoryDB Multi-Region is a fully managed, active-active, multi-Region database that lets you build multi-Region applications with up to […]