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GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Disrupt ransomware with AI in Google Drive
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2025. Today, Kristina Behr, VP, Workspace Product Management, and Jorge Blanco, director, Office of the CISO, explain how a new AI-driven capability in Google Drive can help security and business leaders protect their data and minimize the impact of ransomware attacks. As with all Cloud CISO […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Streams announces new Fault Injection Service (FIS) actions for API errors
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports Fault Injection Service (FIS) actions for Kinesis API errors. Customers can now test their application’s error handling capabilities, retry mechanisms (such as exponential backoff patterns), and CloudWatch alarms in a controlled environment. This allows customers to validate their monitoring systems and recovery processes before encountering real-world failures, ultimately improving […]
AWS – Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 4.1
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 4.1, introducing Queues as a preview feature, a new Streams Rebalance Protocol in early access, and Eligible Leader Replicas (ELR). Along with these features, Apache Kafka version 4.1 includes various bug fixes and improvements. For more details, please refer to the Apache […]
AWS – AWS Application Load Balancer launches URL and Host Header Rewrite
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces URL and Host Header rewrite capabilities for Application Load Balancer (ALB). This feature enables customers to modify request URLs and Host Headers using regex-based pattern matching before routing requests to targets. With URL and Host Header rewrites, you can transform URLs using regex patterns (e.g., rewrite “/api/v1/users” to “/users”), standardize […]
AWS – AWS Backup expands information in job APIs and Backup Audit Manager reports
AWS Backup now provides more details in backup job API responses and Backup Audit Manager reports to give you better visibility into backup configurations and compliance settings. You can verify your backup policies with a single API call. List and Describe APIs for backup, copy, and restore jobs now return fields that required multiple API […]
GCP – How AI can scale customer experience — online and IRL
Customer service teams at fast-growing companies face a challenging reality: customer inquiries are growing exponentially, but scaling human teams at the same pace isn’t always sustainable. Intelligent AI tools offer a new path forward. They handle routine questions automatically so employees can focus on more complex customer service tasks that require empathy, judgment, and creative […]
GCP – Google Cloud Apigee Named a Leader for the 10th Consecutive Time in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for API Management
We are excited to share that Google has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for API Management, positioned highest for our Ability to Execute — marking our tenth consecutive recognition. Google was positioned highest in Ability to Execute of all vendors evaluated. We believe this reflects our commitment supporting traditional […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M7i instances are now available in the Europe (Milan) Region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in the Europe (Milan) region. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. M7i deliver up […]
GCP – Scaling AI agents with Google Cloud Marketplace and Gemini Enterprise
Your team wants to deploy AI agents, and you’re probably wondering: Will they work together? Can we control the costs? How do we maintain security standards? These are important questions that every enterprise faces when adopting new AI technology. Google Cloud Marketplace gives you a proven path forward, whether you need to build custom AI […]
GCP – Power your enterprise applications in the cloud with unified block and file storage
Migrating enterprise applications to the cloud requires a storage foundation that can handle everything from high-performance block workloads to globally distributed file access. To solve these challenges, we’re thrilled to announce two new capabilities for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes: unified iSCSI block and file storage to enable your storage area network (SAN) migrations, and NetApp […]