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GCP – 50% faster merge and 50% fewer bugs: How CodeRabbit built its AI code review agent with Google Cloud Run
CodeRabbit, a rapidly growing AI code review tool, is leveraging Google Cloud Run to cut code review time and bugs in half by safely and efficiently executing untrusted code. CodeRabbit improves code quality and automates code reviews by analyzing changes against the entire codebase and generating scripts for deeper analysis. It integrates with code hosting […]
GCP – Google Cloud Database and LangChain integrations now support Go, Java, and JavaScript
Last year, Google Cloud and LangChain announced integrations that give generative AI developers access to a suite of LangChain Python packages. This allowed application developers to leverage Google Cloud’s database portfolio in their gen AI applications to drive the most value from their private data. Today, we are expanding language support for our integrations to […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Proxy is now available in 3 additional AWS regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Thailand), and Mexico (Central) Regions. RDS Proxy is a fully managed and a highly available database proxy for RDS and Amazon Aurora databases. RDS Proxy helps improve application scalability, resiliency, and security. Many applications, including those built on modern […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Streams increases default shard limits to up to 20,000 per AWS account
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now offers significantly higher default shard limits for data streams in Provisioned capacity mode, increasing from 500 to 20,000 shards per AWS account in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland) regions. You can also see an account’s utilization of the shards limit in any region via […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C6id instances are now available in AWS Europe (Paris) region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6id instances are available in Europe (Paris) Region. These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. C6id instances are built on AWS Nitro […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 C8gd, M8gd, and R8gd instances
AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gd instances, Amazon EC2 M8gd instances, and Amazon EC2 R8gd instances with up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, delivering up to 30% better performance over Graviton3-based instances. They have up to […]
AWS – Amazon SQS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Amazon SQS now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for API requests enabling you to communicate with Amazon SQS using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), or dual stack clients using public endpoints. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables decoupling and scaling of distributed systems, microservices, […]
AWS – Amazon Q Developer releases state of the art agent for feature development
Today, AWS announces the update of Amazon Q Developer’s software development agent. This new agent achieves state-of-the-art performance on industry benchmark SWTBench Verified (49%) and sits among the top ranking models on SWEBench Verified (66%). The agent has access to tools for planning and reasoning that use the capacity of advanced models to their fullest. […]
AWS – Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 3.9
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 3.9, which allows users to retain tiered data when disabling Tiered Storage at the topic level. Consumer applications can continue to read historical data from the remote log start offset (Rx) while maintaining continuous log offsets across both local and remote storage. […]
GCP – Your comprehensive guide to Google Cloud Security at RSA 2025
Gaining comprehensive visibility into threats across your entire digital landscape is paramount for security teams. We’re excited to bring our capabilities, products, and expertise to the upcoming RSA Conference in San Francisco, where you can learn more about our latest innovations, and where we’ll be sharing insight from this year’s highly-anticipated M-Trends report. We now […]