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GCP – What’s new in Google Cloud’s workload-optimized infrastructure
We are witnessing a rapid pace of innovation all around us. As a result, our customers’ computing performance and reliability needs are growing for everything from enterprise workloads like custom three-tier apps and cloud-native apps, to business-critical workloads such as SAP, high performance computing (HPC) and of course, generative AI applications. While our customers are […]

GCP – Powering Google Cloud with Gemini
We are excited to share with you that Gemini for Google Cloud is here. Generative AI’s capabilities have grown tremendously over the last year, and we have infused it throughout our product portfolio. Gemini for Google Cloud is a new generation of AI assistants for developers, Google Cloud services, and applications. These assist users in […]

GCP – What’s new with Google Cloud’s AI Hypercomputer architecture
Advancements in AI are unlocking use-cases previously thought impossible. Larger and more complex AI models are enabling powerful capabilities across a full range of applications involving text, code, images, videos, voice, music, and more. As a result, leveraging AI has become an innovation imperative for businesses and organizations around the world, with the potential to […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 C7i instances now available in Europe (Paris)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Europe (Paris). C7i instances supported by custom Intel processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. Read […]

AWS – AWS Transfer Family introduces a new workshop for SFTP
You can now learn how to use AWS Transfer Family to set up your SFTP endpoint, manage your line-of-business users, and enable secure access to your data with a new workshop called Basic principles for securing access using AWS Transfer Family. This workshop will help you gain hands on experience so you can build a […]

AWS – Announcing availability of AWS Outposts in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
AWS Outposts can be shipped and installed at customer datacenters and on-premises locations in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Read More for the details.

AWS – Launch Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor from Amazon CloudFront console
You can now create or associate a monitor for a distribution directly from the Amazon CloudFront console. By adding your distribution to a monitor, you can gain improved visibility into your application’s internet performance and availability using Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor. You can create a monitor for the distribution, or add the distribution to an […]

AWS – AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports CMAF Ingest output group
You can now use AWS Elemental MediaLive to deliver a CMAF Ingest (Interface-1) output group from a channel. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS India customers can now use UPI (Unified Payments Interface) to make payments
AWS India customers can now pay their invoices using UPI (Unified Payments Interface) payment method, in addition to credit cards, debit cards, and netbanking. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now lets you update node count without blue/green
Amazon OpenSearch Service is now extending the ability to update the number of data nodes without requiring a blue/green deployment for clusters without dedicated cluster manager (master) nodes. This change will allow you to make node count changes faster. Clusters with dedicated cluster manager nodes already supported updating the data node count without a blue/green […]