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AWS – Amazon ElastiCache Serverless now supports same-slot WATCH command
Today, we are announcing that Amazon ElastiCache Serverless now supports the WATCH command for same-slot transactions, helping developers build more reliable applications with improved data consistency in high-concurrency scenarios. With this launch, the WATCH command makes transactions conditional, ensuring they execute only when monitored keys remain unchanged. For ElastiCache Serverless, the WATCH command works with […]
GCP – Announcing MCP support in Apigee: Turn existing APIs into secure and governed agentic tools
Today, we expanded Google’s support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) with the release of fully-managed, remote MCP servers, giving developers worldwide consistent and enterprise-ready access to Google and Google Cloud services. This includes support for MCP in Apigee, which makes it possible for agents to use your secure, governed APIs and custom workflows cataloged in […]
GCP – Announcing Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for Google services
With the recent launch of Gemini 3, we have the state-of-the-art reasoning to help you learn, build, and plan anything. But for AI to truly be an “agent”, to pursue goals and solve real-world problems on behalf of users, it needs more than just intelligence; it needs to reliably work with tools and data. Anthropic’s […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch SDK supports optimized JSON, CBOR protocols
Amazon CloudWatch announces support for both the JSON and Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) protocols in the CloudWatch SDK, enabling lower latency and improved performance for CloudWatch customers. The SDK will automatically use JSON or CBOR as its new default communication protocol, offering customers a lower end-to-end processing latency as well as reduced payload sizes, […]
GCP – Agent Factory Recap: Building with Gemini 3, AI Studio, Antigravity, and Nano Banana
Welcome back to The Agent Factory! This week, we went beyond the hype to dissect the technical details of Google’s massive wave of AI releases. We were joined by Paige Bailey, the UTL for Developer Relations at DeepMind, to break down everything from the new Gemini 3 model to the Antigravity IDE. Google has been […]
AWS – Amazon Braket now supports Qiskit 2.0
Amazon Braket now supports Qiskit 2.0, enabling quantum developers to use the latest version of the most popular quantum software framework with native primitives and client-side compilation capabilities. With this release, Braket provides native implementations of Qiskit’s Sampler and Estimator primitives that leverage Braket’s program sets for optimized batching, reducing execution time and costs compared […]
AWS – AWS Support Center Console now supports screen sharing for troubleshooting support cases
Today, AWS announces that AWS Support Center Console now support screen sharing for troubleshooting support cases. With this new feature, you can request a virtual meeting while in an active chat or call, join support calls with one click through a meeting bridge link. With the new virtual meetings, you will be able to share […]
GCP – AlphaEvolve on Google Cloud: AI for agentic discovery and optimization
Innovators in science and engineering face a common barrier: the search space for solving complex problems — like designing a new chip or discovering a drug molecule — is often too vast for standard brute-force methods to explore effectively. To help you overcome this challenge, we are releasing AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered coding agent for designing […]
GCP – From adoption to impact: Putting the DORA AI Capabilities Model to work
The 2025 State of AI-assisted Software Development report revealed a critical truth: AI is an amplifier. It magnifies the strengths of high-performing organizations and the dysfunctions of struggling ones. While AI adoption is now near-universal, with 90% of developers using it in their daily workflows, success is not guaranteed. Our cluster analysis of nearly 5,000 […]
GCP – How Virgin Media O2 uses data contracts to enable trusted data and scalable AI products
As organizations scale their data and AI capabilities, many are adopting federated data architectures to empower domain teams, accelerate innovation, and foster ownership. This decentralization is essential for building AI products that are adaptable and data-driven — but it also introduces new challenges: maintaining trust, ensuring data quality, and enforcing governance across distributed teams and […]