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GCP – Advancing sovereignty, choice, and security in the cloud for our customers
Like most organizations, Google Cloud is continually engaging with customers, partners, and policymakers to deliver technology capabilities that reflect their needs. When it comes to digital sovereignty solutions, Google Cloud has worked with customers for nearly a decade. Today, we’re pleased to announce significant technical and commercial updates on our sovereign cloud solutions for customers, […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports credential management with AWS Secrets Manager for databases using Oracle multitenant architecture
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports credential management with AWS Secrets Manager for databases that adopt Oracle multitenant architecture. Oracle multitenant architecture enables customers to consolidate data and code from multiple databases into one database by setting up a multitenant container database (CDB) that can include multiple pluggable databases (PDBs). With this launch, customers can […]
GCP – Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro expand on Vertex AI to drive more sophisticated and secure AI innovation
Today at Google I/O, we’re expanding Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro model capabilities that help enterprises build more sophisticated and secure AI-driven applications and agents: Thought summaries: For enterprise-grade AI, we’re bringing clarity and auditability with thought summaries. This feature organizes a model’s raw thoughts — including key details and tool usage — into a […]
GCP – Expanding Vertex AI with the next wave of generative AI media models
Today, we are introducing the next wave of generative AI media models on Vertex AI: Imagen 4, Veo 3, and Lyria 2. We’ve already seen customers generate stunning, photorealistic images with Imagen 3, Google’s image generation model. Customers have taken these images and transformed them into high quality videos and assets with Veo 2. We’ve […]
GCP – AI deployment made easy: Deploy your app to Cloud Run from AI Studio or MCP-compatible AI agents
Cloud Run has become a go-to app hosting solution for its remarkable simplicity, flexibility, and scalability. But the age of AI-assisted development is here, and going from idea to application is faster and more streamlined than ever. Today, we’re excited to make AI deployments easier and more accessible by introducing new ways to deploy your […]
GCP – Google AI Edge Portal: On-device machine learning testing at scale
Today, we’re excited to announce Google AI Edge Portal in private preview, Google Cloud’s new solution for testing and benchmarking on-device machine learning (ML) at scale. Machine learning on mobile devices enables amazing app experiences. But how will your model truly perform across the vast, diverse, and ever-changing landscape of mobile devices? Manually testing at […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals introduces auto-monitor support for EKS workloads
CloudWatch Application Signals, an application performance monitoring (APM) tool that simplifies health and performance monitoring for applications, now makes instrumentation easier for your EKS applications through a single configuration flag within the Amazon CloudWatch Observability add-on. Once enabled, you can gain access to pre-built, standardized dashboards within CloudWatch Application Signals and track application performance against […]
AWS – The next generation of Amazon SageMaker is now available in an additional region
The next generation of Amazon SageMaker is now available in AWS Europe (Stockholm). Amazon SageMaker is the center for all your data, analytics, and AI. From SageMaker Unified Studio, you can discover your data and put it to work using familiar AWS tools for model development, generative AI app development, data processing, and SQL analytics. […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.5.29 and 10.6.22
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.5.29 and 10.6.22. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community. You […]
AWS – AWS service changes
At AWS, we understand that the decision to end support for a service or feature significantly impacts customers. We approach such decisions only after careful consideration. When end of support is necessary, we provide customers detailed guidance on available alternatives and comprehensive support for migration, ensuring minimal disruption to customer operations. We understand that changes […]