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AWS – AWS Transfer Family introduces Terraform module for deploying SFTP server endpoints
AWS Transfer Family introduces a Terraform module for deploying managed file transfer (MFT) server endpoints backed by Amazon S3. This enables you to leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate and streamline centralized provisioning of MFT servers and users at scale. AWS Transfer Family provides fully-managed file transfers over SFTP, AS2, FTPS, FTP, and web […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 R7gd instances are now available in additional AWS Regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are available in Europe (London) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Osaka) Regions. R7gd are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors with DDR5 memory are built on the AWS Nitro System. They are ideal for memory-intensive workloads […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C7gd instances are now available in additional AWS Regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West), Canada (Central), and Europe (London) Regions. These Graviton3-based instances with DDR5 memory are built on the AWS Nitro System and are a great fit for applications that […]
GCP – MCP Toolbox for Databases: Simplify AI Agent Access to Enterprise Data
At Google Cloud Next 25, we announced incredible ways for enterprises to build multi-agent ecosystems with Vertex AI and Google Cloud Databases – including better ways for agents to communicate with each other using Agent2Agent Protocol and Model Context Protocol (MCP). With the growing excitement around MCP for developers, we’re making it easy for MCP […]
GCP – Diving into the technology behind Google’s AI-era global network
The unprecedented growth and unique challenges of AI applications are driving fundamental architectural changes to Google’s next-generation global network. The AI era brings an explosive surge in demand for network capacity, with novel traffic patterns characteristic of large-scale model training and inference. Simultaneously, the critical need for unwavering reliability has reached new heights; in an […]
GCP – Automate data pipelines with BigQuery’s new data engineering agent
For years, data teams have relied on the BigQuery platform to power their analytics and unlock critical business insights. But building, managing, and troubleshooting the data pipelines that feed those insights can be a complex, time-consuming process, requiring specialized expertise and a lot of manual effort. Today, we’re excited to announce our vision, a major […]
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 […]