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AWS – ACM now supports automated certificate management for Kubernetes
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now automates certificate provisioning and distribution for Kubernetes workloads through AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK). Previously, ACM automated certificate management for AWS-integrated services like Application Load Balancers and CloudFront. However, using ACM certificates with applications terminating TLS in Kubernetes required manual steps: exporting certificates and private keys via API, creating Kubernetes […]
GCP – Boost your agency’s efficiency: Take Google Workspace for a test drive
Public sector agencies are under constant pressure to do more with less. With shrinking budgets and expanding responsibilities, the need for efficient, secure, and modern tools has never been greater. Outdated systems can hinder collaboration, create security risks, and impact employee morale, making it difficult to deliver the services constituents require. Modernizing mission delivery Google […]
GCP – A developer’s guide to Gemini Live API in Vertex AI
Give your AI apps and agents a natural, almost human-like interface, all through a single WebSocket connection. Today, we announced the general availability of Gemini Live API on Vertex AI, which is powered by the latest Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio model. This is more than just a model upgrade; it represents a fundamental move […]
GCP – Gemini Live API Now GA on Vertex AI
Today, we are excited to announce that Gemini Live API, powered by the latest Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio model, is generally available on Vertex AI. Pioneering organizations have been using Gemini Live API to build the next generation of multimodal conversational AI that blends voice, vision, and text, to deliver fluid, human-like, and highly […]
GCP – Recognizing real-time data innovations for the agentic era
Today, many organizations operate with data that’s trapped in silos, in disconnected legacy systems and is days or hours old. However, the rise of AI presents the need and opportunity to unify these environments, tap into unstructured data from audio, video, and text files, which together, makes up more than 80% of enterprise data and […]
GCP – How to connect Looker to Gemini Enterprise in minutes, with MCP Toolbox and ADK
We can all agree that the quality of AI-driven answers relies on the consistency of the underlying data. But AI models, while powerful, lack business context out of the box. As more organizations ask questions of their data using natural language, it is increasingly important to unify business measures and dimensions, ensure consistency company-wide. If […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Our 2026 Cybersecurity Forecast report
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for December 2025. Today, Francis deSouza, COO and president, Security Products, Google Cloud, shares our Cybersecurity Forecast report for the coming year, with additional insights from our Office of the CISO colleagues. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google […]
AWS – Amazon MSK Replicator is now available in ten additional AWS Regions
You can now use Amazon MSK Replicator to replicate streaming data across Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) clusters in ten additional AWS Regions: Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), Europe (Zurich) and Israel (Tel […]
AWS – AWS Shield network security director now supports multi-account analysis
Today, AWS Shield announces multi-account network security management and automated network analysis for network security director, which is currently in preview. AWS Shield network security director provides visibility into the AWS resources in your AWS organization, identifies missing or misconfigured network security services, and recommends remediation steps. With network security director, you can specify a […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Managed Scaling is now available in 7 additional AWS regions
We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR Managed Scaling is now available for EMR on EC2 customers in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia, New Zealand, Taipei, Thailand), Canada West (Calgary), Mexico (Central), and US Gameday Northeast (Illinois) AWS Regions. Amazon EMR Managed Scaling automatically resizes the EC2 instances in your EMR cluster for the best […]