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GCP – The new data scientist: From analyst to agentic architect
The role of the data scientist is rapidly transforming. For the past decade, their mission has centered on analyzing the past to run predictive models that informed business decisions. Today, that is no longer enough. The market now demands that data scientists build the future by designing and deploying intelligent, autonomous agents that can reason, […]
GCP – Another BRICKSTORM: Stealthy Backdoor Enabling Espionage into Tech and Legal Sectors
Written by: Sarah Yoder, John Wolfram, Ashley Pearson, Doug Bienstock, Josh Madeley, Josh Murchie, Brad Slaybaugh, Matt Lin, Geoff Carstairs, Austin Larsen Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) is tracking BRICKSTORM malware activity, which is being used to maintain persistent access to victim organizations in the United States. Since March 2025, Mandiant Consulting has responded […]
GCP – Indiana DOT saved 360 hours of manual effort to meet a 30-day executive order with Google AI
Public sector agencies are under increasing pressure to operate with greater speed and agility, yet are often hampered by decades of legacy data. Critical information, essential for meeting tight deadlines and fulfilling mandates, frequently lies buried within vast collections of unstructured documents. This challenge of transforming institutional knowledge into actionable insight is a common hurdle […]
GCP – From legacy complexity to Google-powered innovation
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Syed Mohammad Mujeeb, CIO and Arsalan Mazhar, Head of Infrastructure, for JS Bank a prominent and rapidly growing midsize commercial bank in Pakistan with a strong national presence of over 293 branches. JS Bank, always at the forefront of technology, deployed a Google stack to modernize operations while maintaining […]
AWS – Amazon Route 53 Resolver Query Logging now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand)
Today, we are announcing the availability of Route 53 Resolver Query Logging in Asia Pacific (New Zealand), enabling you to log DNS queries that originate in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). With query logging enabled, you can see which domain names have been queried, the AWS resources from which the queries originated – including […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports forced cancellation of instance refreshes
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now enables customers to force cancel instance refreshes immediately, without waiting for in-progress instance launches or terminations to complete. This enhancement provides greater control over Auto Scaling group (ASG) updates, especially during emergency situations such as when needing to rapidly roll forward to a new application deployment when the current deployment […]
AWS – AWS announces unlimited network burst duration on EC2 I8g and I7i instances
Today, AWS eliminated the networking bandwidth burst duration limitations for Amazon EC2 I7i and I8g instances on sizes larger than 4xlarge. This update doubles the Network Bandwidth available at all times for i7i and i8g instances on sizes larger than 4xlarge. Previously, these instance sizes had a baseline bandwidth and used a network I/O credit […]
AWS – Amazon GameLift Servers launches a new Local Zone in Dallas, Texas
Amazon GameLift Servers now supports a new AWS Local Zone in Dallas, Texas (us-east-1-dfw-2). You can use this Local Zone to deploy GameLift Fleets with EC2 C6gn, C6i, C6in, M6g, M6i, M6in, M8g, and R6i instances. Local Zones place AWS services closer to major player population and IT centers where no AWS region exists. From […]
AWS – Amazon DataZone is now available in 3 additional commercial regions
Amazon DataZone is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Europe (Zurich) Regions. Amazon DataZone is a fully managed data management service to catalog, discover, analyze, share, and govern data between data producers and consumers in your organization. With Amazon DataZone, data producers populate the business data catalog with structured […]
GCP – Deutsche Bank delivers AI-powered financial research with DB Lumina
At Deutsche Bank Research, the core mission of our analysts is delivering original, independent economic and financial analysis. However, creating research reports and notes relies heavily on a foundation of painstaking manual work. Or at least that was the case until generative AI came along. Historically, analysts would sift through and gather data from financial […]