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AWS – AWS announces Flexible Cost Allocation on AWS Transit Gateway
AWS announces general availability of Flexible Cost Allocation on AWS Transit Gateway, enhancing how you can distribute Transit Gateway costs across your organization. Previously, Transit Gateway only used a sender-pay model, where the source attachment account owner was responsible for all data usage related costs. The new Flexible Cost Allocation (FCA) feature provides more versatile […]
GCP – Google is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems
Google is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems for the sixth year in a row, and for the third consecutive year is positioned furthest in vision. This comes as we cross into the era of agentic AI. Leading enterprises are in the early days of deploying agents to […]
GCP – BigQuery AI: The convergence of data and AI is here
From uncovering new insights in multimodal data to personalizing customer experiences, AI is emerging as the engine of modern innovation. The explosion in AI adoption has created a need to bring data and AI closer — not only to streamline the AI lifecycle, but also to bring AI-driven insights and workflow automation to everyone in the […]
GCP – How Google Does It: Building the largest known Kubernetes cluster, with 130,000 nodes
At Google Cloud, we’re constantly pushing the scalability of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) so that it can keep up with increasingly demanding workloads — especially AI. GKE already supports massive 65,000-node clusters, and at KubeCon, we shared that we successfully ran a 130,000-node cluster in experimental mode — twice the number of nodes compared to […]
GCP – Building with Gemini in the newest Vertex AI Studio
Today, we’re sharing new ways Vertex AI Studio – Google’s developer console for production-ready AI – will help teams turn ideas into scalable, production gen AI apps. We’ve introduced powerful new tools that directly address developer needs for efficiency and team-based work. Now, you can: Use agents as tools to help you prompt and build […]
GCP – Looker and Looker Conversational Analytics extensions available in the Gemini CLI
The ability to easily access and understand data is essential for modern businesses. The Gemini command line interface (CLI) is an open-source AI agent that provides access to Gemini directly in your terminal, enabling you to interact with Google’s latest AI models directly from the interface you know best. With the release of Looker and […]
GCP – Four agentic workflows you can build for life sciences for R&D
AI agents, powered by generative AI, are rapidly transforming industries by acting as intelligent, collaborative partners that can interpret goals, plan multi-step actions, and work independently across systems, marking a significant shift in how businesses can find, understand, and act on their data. Our recent blog outlines how AI agents are transforming several industries. Below […]
AWS – AWS Security Incident Response now provides agentic AI-powered investigation
AWS Security Incident Response now provides agentic AI-powered investigation capabilities to help you prepare for, respond to, and recover from security events faster and more effectively. The new investigative agent automatically gathers evidence across multiple AWS data sources, correlates the data, then presents findings for you in clear, actionable summaries. This helps you reduce the […]
AWS – Amazon Location Service introduces Address Form Solution Builder
Today, AWS announced Address Form Solution Builder from Amazon Location Service, enabling developers to build a customized address form, without writing any code, that helps their users enter their address with predictive suggestions, autofill address fields such as postal code, and customizable layout. This guided experience allows developers to generate a ready-to-use application in minutes […]
AWS – AWS introduces new VPC Encryption Controls and further raises the bar on data encryption
AWS launches VPC Encryption Controls to make it easy to audit and enforce encryption in transit within and across Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPC), and demonstrate compliance with encryption standards. You can turn it on your existing VPCs to monitor encryption status of traffic flows and identify VPC resources that are unintentionally allowing plaintext traffic. […]