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GCP – Enhancing multiplayer games with gen AI and cloud gaming: a technical deep dive
Generative AI is poised to revolutionize the gaming landscape. It will offer — and in many cases, already is offering — personalized NPCs, dynamic narratives, and tailored environments, thereby reshaping player experiences. It’s a concept increasingly known as living games. The recent unveiling of Genie 2: a large scale foundation world model created by Google […]

GCP – Cloud Composer 3: The next generation of data pipeline orchestration
As any data team can tell you, managing Apache Airflow is often a complex undertaking, with many hours spent wrestling with reliability, security, and efficient resource scaling. This valuable time could be better spent deriving insights and driving business value. Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Cloud Composer 3, the latest version of our […]

GCP – Accelerate AI/ML workloads using Cloud Storage hierarchical namespace
As AI and machine learning (ML) workloads continue to grow, the infrastructure supporting them must evolve to meet their unique demands. Here on the Google Cloud Storage team, we’re committed to providing AI/ML practitioners with tools to optimize the performance, scalability, and usability of Cloud Storage. In this post, we’ll explore how Cloud Storage’s new […]

GCP – Co-op mode: New partners driving the future of gaming with AI
Leaders in the games industry are using Google Cloud’s AI to drive unprecedented advancements in game development, including smarter, faster, and more immersive gaming experiences. And just like any successful game studio is the work of a broad and diverse team, our partner ecosystem is ready to help level up any project, including with game-industry-specific […]

GCP – BitM Up! Session Stealing in Seconds Using the Browser-in-the-Middle Technique
Written by: Truman Brown, Emily Astranova, Steven Karschnia, Jacob Paullus, Nick McClendon, Chris Higgins Executive Summary The Rise of Browser in the Middle (BitM): BitM attacks offer a streamlined approach, allowing attackers to quickly compromise sessions across various web applications. MFA Remains Crucial, But Not Invulnerable: Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a vital security measure, yet […]

AWS – AWS Verified Access achieves FedRAMP High and Moderate authorization
AWS Verified Access is a FedRAMP High authorized service in the AWS GovCloud Regions and a FedRAMP Moderate authorized service in the AWS US East and US West commercial regions. Federal agencies, public sector organizations, and other enterprises with FedRAMP compliance requirements can now leverage AWS Verified Access to enable secure VPN-less access to corporate […]

AWS – Announcing support of AWS Glue Data Catalog views with AWS Glue 5.0
Today, we announce support for AWS Glue Data Catalog views with AWS Glue 5.0 for Apache Spark jobs. AWS Glue Data Catalog views with AWS Glue 5.0 allows customers to create views from Glue 5.0 Spark jobs that can be queried from multiple engines without requiring access to referenced tables. AWS Glue is a serverless, […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora now supports R8g database instances in additional AWS Regions
AWS Graviton4-based R8g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility in Europe (Ireland), Europe (Spain), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. R8g instances offer larger instance sizes, up to 48xlarge and features an 8:1 ratio of memory to […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M8g and R8g database instances in additional AWS Regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports AWS Graviton4-based M8g database instances in the Europe (Spain), Europe (Stockholm), and Europe (London) Regions and R8g database instances in Europe (Ireland), Europe (Spain), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. Graviton4-based instances provide up to a 40% […]
AWS – AWS CodePipeline introduces CodeBuild and Commands rule for stage level condition
AWS CodePipeline V2 type pipeline introduces CodeBuild rule and Commands rule that customers can use in their stage level condition to gate a pipeline execution. You can use CodeBuild rule to start a CodeBuild build or Commands rule to run simple shell commands before exiting a stage, when all actions in the stage have completed […]