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GCP – Cloud WAN: Premium Tier & Verified Peering Provider for Reliable Global Connectivity
Recently at Google Cloud Next 25, we announced our latest Cross-Cloud Network innovation: Cloud WAN, a fully managed, reliable, and secure solution to transform enterprise wide area network (WAN) architectures. Today, we continue our series of deep dives into the technologies powering Cloud WAN, namely Premium Tier networking and the Verified Peering Provider program. The […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Data-driven insights into AI and cybersecurity
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for April 2025. Today, Sandra Joyce, vice president, Google Threat Intelligence, will talk about the practical applications of AI in both attack and defense, adapted from her RSA Conference keynote. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. […]
AWS – Announcing Generation 7i instance support for Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) on AWS Outposts now supports generation 7i instances for Amazon RDS for MySQL on Outposts and amazon RDS for PostgreSQL on Outposts. Amazon RDS on Outposts allows you to deploy fully managed database instances in your on-premises environments. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, […]
AWS – Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes now supports Bottlerocket
Today, AWS announced Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes support for Bottlerocket, the Linux-based operating system purpose-built for containers. EKS Hybrid Nodes unifies Kubernetes management across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments by enabling customers to use their on-premises infrastructure as nodes in EKS clusters. Customers can now use Bottlerocket as the node operating system for hybrid nodes […]
AWS – AWS Budgets announces support for additional cost metrics and filtering capabilities
AWS Budgets now offers enhanced filtering capabilities and cost metrics, providing greater flexibility in how customers track and manage their cloud costs. Customers can now create budgets for new cost metrics such as net unblended costs and net amortized costs allowing monitoring for costs after discounts. Customers can also exclude dimension values when creating a […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager launches just-in-time node access
Today, AWS Systems Manager announces the launch of just-in-time node access, which helps remove long-standing permissions to nodes while maintaining operational efficiency. Customers can create zero standing privileges to nodes by requiring operators to request access to nodes managed by AWS Systems Manager that are running on AWS, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments before remotely connecting […]
AWS – Announcing second-generation AWS Outposts racks
Today, AWS announces the general availability of second-generation AWS Outposts racks, marking the latest innovation from AWS at the edge of the cloud for your workloads that require low latency, local data processing, and data residency. Second-generation Outposts racks support the latest generation of x86-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, starting with general […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator now supports R7i instances
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) now supports R7i instances, powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. R7i instances provide instance sizes up to 24xlarge, feature an 8:1 ratio of memory to vCPU, and include the latest DDR5 memory. These instances are now available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US […]
AWS – Amazon Q Developer CLI now supports Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Today, Amazon Q Developer announced support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Amazon Q Developer Command Line Interface (CLI), enabling developers to leverage tools and prompts to support richer contextual, development workflows. MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how AI models can, in a secure and structured way, access external tools, data sources, and […]
AWS – AWS End User Messaging helps customers combat SMS pumping
Today, AWS End User Messaging introduces new features to help developers combat artificially inflated traffic (AIT), also known as SMS pumping. AIT occurs when bad actors use automated systems or bots to trigger large volumes of SMS messages, leading to unexpected charges that can cost businesses millions of dollars each year. End User Messaging SMS […]