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GCP – Expanding the Vision: Welcoming Palo Alto Networks to Google Unified Security Recommended
Today’s organizations highly value their ability to choose the security tools they want to use, driving the reality that the security landscape should be interoperable. At Google Cloud, we believe in meeting customers where they are — including the partners they want to work with. We are thrilled to continue expanding the power of Google […]
GCP – Google named a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Hyperscaler Marketplaces
Today, we’re thrilled to announce that the IDC Marketscape has positioned Google as a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Hyperscaler Marketplaces. We believe this recognition underscores our commitment to deliver a cloud marketplace experience that fuels the AI agent economy and accelerates innovation. This achievement reflects our dedication to creating an open […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 X8g instances now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8g instances are available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 60% better performance than AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 X2gd instances. X8g instances offer up to 3 TiB of total memory and increased memory per vCPU compared […]
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 […]