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AWS – Amazon S3 now supports conditional deletes in S3 general purpose buckets
Amazon S3 now supports conditional deletes in S3 general purpose buckets, which verify that an object is unchanged before deleting it. This helps you to prevent accidental deletions in high-concurrency, multiple-writer scenarios. You can now perform conditional deletes using the HTTP if-match header with an ETag value. Amazon S3 will only allow your delete request […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions
Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database, now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions, makes it easy for you to scale your relational database workloads by providing a serverless endpoint that automatically distributes data and queries across multiple Amazon Aurora Serverless instances while maintaining the transactional consistency of a single database. Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database offers capabilities such […]
AWS – AWS Storage Gateway now supports IPv6
AWS Storage Gateway announces Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) support for AWS Storage Gateway endpoints, APIs, and gateway appliance interfaces. This enhancement enables both IPv6 and IPv4 access to our new dual-stack endpoints. The existing AWS Storage Gateway endpoints supporting IPv4 only will remain available for backwards compatibility. AWS Storage Gateway provides on-premises access to […]
GCP – Powering AI commerce with the new Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)
Today, Google announced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), an open protocol developed with leading payments and technology companies to securely initiate and transact agent-led payments across platforms. The protocol can be used as an extension of the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol and Model Context Protocol (MCP). In concert with industry rules and standards, it establishes a […]
GCP – Announcing the new Practical Guide to Data Science on Google Cloud
Data science is undergoing a profound transformation with new tools and platforms empowering practitioners like never before. To help you navigate this evolving landscape, we’re excited to announce the release of our new ebook: A Practical Guide to Data Science with Google Cloud. Google Cloud provides extensive data science-related tooling, and this new practical guide […]
GCP – Unlocking a new era for SAP on Google Cloud
The world of enterprise technology is at an inflection point. Businesses are no longer just looking to modernize their infrastructure; they’re seeking to infuse intelligence and automation into every aspect of their operations. At Google Cloud, we believe the future lies in a unified, intelligent, and flexible enterprise landscape. That’s why we’re so excited about […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-flex instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Singapore) and Europe (Frankfurt) regions. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The R8i […]
GCP – Introducing the Class of 2025 Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First MENA and Turkey
Today, we are thrilled to announce the 14 innovative startups selected to join the Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey. These companies are leveraging AI to tackle significant challenges and create new opportunities across various industries. From real estate and finance to enhancing healthcare and industrial safety, […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service announces Derived Source for storage optimization
Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces support for Derived Source, a new feature that can help reduce the amount of storage required for your OpenSearch Service domains. With derived source support, you can skip storing source fields and dynamically derive them when required. OpenSearch stores each ingested document in the _source field and also indexes individual fields for search. […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service announces Star-Tree Index
OpenSearch has introduced Star-Tree Index, a new feature that significantly improves aggregation performance for high-cardinality and multi-dimensional queries. This index pre-aggregates data across configured dimensions and metrics at ingestion time, enabling sub-second response times for frequent aggregations like terms, histogram, and range. Star-Tree Index is designed for real-time analytics and requires no changes to query syntax; OpenSearch automatically uses […]