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GCP – Google’s AI-powered next-generation global network: Built for the Gemini era
From answering search queries, to streaming YouTube videos, to handling the most demanding cloud workloads, for over 25 years, we’ve been relentlessly pushing the boundaries of network technology, building a global infrastructure that powers Google and Google Cloud for billions of users and enterprise customers globally. We now stand at another pivotal moment, driven by […]

GCP – Kubernetes, your AI superpower: How Google Kubernetes Engine powers AI innovation
The age of AI is now. In fact, the global AI infrastructure market is on track to increase to more than $200 billion by 2028. However, working with massive data, intricate models, and relentless iterations isn’t easy, and adapting to this new era can be daunting. Platform engineering and infrastructure teams that have invested in […]

GCP – Cloud WAN: Connect your global enterprise with a network built for the AI era
For over 25 years, Google has pushed the boundaries of the network, with innovations that connect billions of users around the world to essential services like Gmail, YouTube, and Search. At the foundation lies Google’s vast backbone network. With 202 points of presence (PoPs), powered by over 2 million miles of fiber, 33 subsea cables, […]

GCP – Google Cloud databases supercharge the AI developer experience
Generative AI continues to capture our imagination and promises to transform every industry. Its transformative potential hinges on integrating powerful models like Gemini, with the most contextually-relevant enterprise data. Google Cloud is leading this transformation, not only by delivering the gen AI technologies themselves, but also by embedding those technologies directly into operational databases. For […]

GCP – What’s new with Google Cloud networking
The AI era is here, fundamentally reshaping industries and demanding unprecedented network capabilities for training, inference and serving AI models. To power this transformation, organizations need global networking solutions that can handle massive capacity, seamless connectivity, and provide robust security. At Next 25, we’re addressing these critical needs and enabling customers to build and deliver […]

GCP – Delivering an application-centric, AI-powered cloud for developers and operators
Today we’re unveiling new AI capabilities to help cloud developers and operators at every step of the application lifecycle. We are doing this by: Putting applications at the center of your cloud experience, abstracting away the infrastructure complexities of the traditional cloud model. Now you can design, observe, secure, and optimize at the application level, […]

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now available in AWS Europe (Spain) Region
Starting today, customers can use Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion in Europe(Spain) region for ingesting data into their Amazon OpenSearch Service managed clusters or serverless collections. Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is a fully managed data ingestion tier that allows you to ingest and process data before indexing it in Amazon OpenSearch managed clusters or serverless collections. Amazon OpenSearch […]

GCP – Presenting our 2025 Google Cloud Partners of the Year
It’s an honor to announce the 2025 Google Cloud Partner of the Year winners! It takes a lot to build great AI and cloud technology. Advancements and innovation come from collaboration, and Google Cloud has thousands of partners to make this happen. Among these, we’re excited to recognize dozens who take our work to the […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 C6in instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Osaka). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, for 2x more network bandwidth over comparable fifth-generation instances. Customers can […]
AWS – Meta’s Llama 4 now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
The first models in the new Llama 4 herd of models—Llama 4 Scout 17B and Llama 4 Maverick 17B—are now available on AWS. You can access Llama 4 models in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. These advanced multimodal models empower you to build more tailored applications that respond to multiple types of media. Llama 4 offers improved […]