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AWS – Announcing customer-initiated reboot migrations for EC2 Scheduled Events
AWS now enables automatic instance migration when you reboot after receiving EC2 scheduled reboot event notifications. This new capability of customer-initiated reboot migrations enables customers to action scheduled reboot event notifications by rebooting the instance at a time of their choosing which will then automatically migrate their instance to different hardware, eliminating the pending scheduled […]

AWS – AWS Organizations now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
AWS Organizations customers can now use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses, via our new dual-stack endpoints to connect to AWS Organizations over the public internet using IPv6, IPv4, or dual-stack clients. The existing AWS Organizations endpoints supporting IPv4 will remain available for backwards compatibility. To learn more on best practices for configuring IPv6 in […]

AWS – AWS Site-to-Site VPN Tunnel Endpoint Lifecycle Control is now available in AWS Mexico (Central) Region
AWS Site-to-Site VPN Tunnel Endpoint Lifecycle Control is now available in AWS Mexico (Central) Region, providing you with better visibility and control of your VPN tunnel maintenance updates. AWS Site-to-Site VPN is a fully-managed service that allows you to create a secure connection between your data center or branch office and your AWS resources using […]

GCP – Google Cloud and Spring AI 1.0
A big thank you to Fran Hinkelmann and Aaron Wanjala for their contributions and support in making this blog post happen. After a period of intense development, Spring AI 1.0 has officially landed, bringing a robust and comprehensive solution for AI engineering right to your Java ecosystem. This isn’t just another library; it’s a strategic […]

GCP – SAP & Google Cloud: Enabling faster value and smarter innovation for business excellence
SAP and Google Cloud are deepening their collaboration across data analytics, AI, security, and more to deliver what customers need most: faster paths to business value, lower risk on complex projects, and smart, enterprise-ready innovation that’s built to serve real workloads — not hypothetical use cases. At SAP Sapphire 2025, we are excited to highlight […]

GCP – Introducing the next generation of AI inference, powered by llm-d
As the world transitions from prototyping AI solutions to deploying AI at scale, efficient AI inference is becoming the gating factor. Two years ago, the challenge was the ever-growing size of AI models. Cloud infrastructure providers responded by supporting orders of magnitude more compute and data. Today, agentic AI workflows and reasoning models create highly […]

GCP – Managing GenAI with Chrome Enterprise
GenAI is transforming the way people think about their work and giving businesses of all sizes an opportunity to re-imagine everything from their internal processes to the way they engage with their customers. These new capabilities are evolving at a rapid pace, and that creates new challenges for IT and security teams to protect their […]

AWS – Announcing Amazon Bedrock Agents Metrics in CloudWatch
Amazon Bedrock now offers comprehensive CloudWatch metrics support for Agents, enabling developers to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize their agent-based applications with greater visibility. This new capability provides detailed runtime metrics for both InvokeAgent and InvokeInlineAgent operations, including invocation counts, latency measurements, token usage, and error rates, helping customers better understand their agents’ performance in production […]

AWS – AWS CodeBuild adds support for new IAM condition keys
AWS CodeBuild now supports new IAM condition keys enabling granular access control on CodeBuild’s resource-modifying APIs. The new condition keys cover most of CodeBuild’s API request contexts, including network settings, credential configurations and compute restrictions. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready […]
AWS – DynamoDB local is now accessible on AWS CloudShell
Today, Amazon DynamoDB announces the general availability of DynamoDB local on AWS CloudShell, a browser-based, pre-authenticated shell that you can launch directly from the AWS Management Console. With DynamoDB local, you can develop and test your applications by running DynamoDB in your local development environment without incurring any costs. DynamoDB local works with your existing […]