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GCP – Partnering with Google Cloud MSSPs: Solving security challenges with expertise & speed
Organizations today face immense pressure to secure their digital assets against increasingly sophisticated threats — without overwhelming their teams or budgets. Using managed security service providers (MSSPs) to implement and optimize new technology, and handle security operations, is a strategic delegation that can make internal security operations staff more efficient and effective. At Google Cloud, […]
GCP – How Mr. Cooper assembled a team of AI agents to handle complex mortgage questions
In today’s world where instant responses and seamless experiences are the norm, industries like mortgage servicing face tough challenges. When navigating a maze of regulations, piles of financial documents, and the high stakes of homeownership, consumers quickly find that even simple questions can turn into complicated issues. And the same can be true for the […]
GCP – Inside the AI-powered assistant helping doctors work faster and better at Seattle Children’s Hospital
Though its name may suggest otherwise, Seattle Children’s is the largest pediatric healthcare system in the world. While its main campus is in its namesake city, Seattle Children’s also encompasses 47 satellite hospitals across Alaska, Montana, Idaho, and Washington, and patients come from as far away as Hawaii for treatment. For more than 100 years, […]
GCP – Network Performance Decoded: Much ado about headers, data and bitrates
We are happy to drop the third installment of our Network Performance Decoded whitepaper series, where we dive into topics in network performance and benchmarking best practices that often come up as you troubleshoot, deploy, scale, or architect your cloud-based workloads. We started this series last year to provide you helpful tips to not only […]
AWS – OpenAI open weight models expand to new regions on AWS Bedrock
Today, AWS announces the expansion of OpenAI open weight models on AWS Bedrock to eight new regions. This expansion brings these powerful AI models closer to customers in various parts of the world, enabling lower latency and improved performance for a wide range of AI-powered applications. With this expansion, the OpenAI open weight models are […]
AWS – Qwen3 models are now available fully managed in Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock continues to expand model choice by adding four Qwen3 open weight foundation models, now available as fully managed, serverless offerings. The lineup includes: Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507, and Qwen3-32B for efficient dense computation. These models feature both dense and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures, providing flexible options for various development needs. These open weight models enable […]
AWS – DeepSeek-V3.1 model now available fully managed in Amazon Bedrock
DeepSeek-V3.1 is now available as a fully managed foundation model in Amazon Bedrock. This advanced open weight model allows you to switch between thinking mode for detailed step-by-step analysis and non-thinking mode for quicker responses. With comprehensive multilingual support, it delivers enhanced accuracy and reduced hallucinations compared to previous DeepSeek models, while maintaining visibility into […]
AWS – Amazon Lex provides enhanced confirmation and currency built-in slots to 10 additional languages
Amazon Lex now provides support for confirmation and currency slot types in 10 additional languages: Portuguese, Catalan, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, and Korean. Built-in slots help you build more natural and efficient conversations by understanding synonyms of what you user says and resolving those inputs to a standard format. The confirmation slot […]
AWS – AWS Step Functions expands data source options and improves observability for Distributed Map
AWS Step Functions now supports additional data sources and new observability metrics for Distributed Map. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating over 14,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to build distributed applications and data processing workloads. Distributed Map is a task state of Step Functions that runs the […]
GCP – How Google Cloud’s AI tech stack powers today’s startups
AI has accelerated startup innovation more than any technology since perhaps the internet itself, and we’ve been fortunate to have a front row seat to much of this innovation here at Google Cloud. Nine of the top ten AI labs use Google Cloud, as does nearly every AI unicorn and more than 60% of the […]