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AWS – Amazon U7i instances now available in AWS Europe (Ireland) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 12TB of memory (u7i-12tb.224xlarge) are now available in the AWS Europe (Ireland) Region. U7i-12tb instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-12tb instances offer 12TB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. 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 M8i and M8i-flex instances offer up to 15% better […]
AWS – AWS Backup extends delegated administrator support to 17 additional AWS Regions
You can now designate delegated administrators for AWS Backup in 17 additional AWS Regions, enabling assigned users in member accounts to perform most administrative tasks. Delegated administrators are now supported in Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Malaysia, Melbourne, New Zealand, Taipei, Thailand), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Milan, Spain, Zurich), Israel (Tel […]
GCP – Introducing Dhivaru and two new connectivity hubs
Today, we’re announcing Dhivaru, a new Trans-Indian Ocean subsea cable system that will connect the Maldives, Christmas Island and Oman. This investment will build on the Australia Connect initiative, furthering the reach, reliability, and resilience of digital connectivity across the Indian Ocean. Reach, reliability and resilience are integral to the success of AI-driven services for […]
GCP – Frontline Intelligence: Analysis of UNC1549 TTPs, Custom Tools, and Malware Targeting the Aerospace and Defense Ecosystem
Written by: Mohamed El-Banna, Daniel Lee, Mike Stokkel, Josh Goddard Overview Last year, Mandiant published a blog post highlighting suspected Iran-nexus espionage activity targeting the aerospace, aviation, and defense industries in the Middle East. In this follow-up post, Mandiant discusses additional tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) observed in incidents Mandiant has responded to. Since mid-2024, […]
GCP – Celebrating our 2025 Google Cloud Partner All-stars
At Google Cloud, we have the honor of partnering with some of the most brilliant and inventive individuals across the world. Each year, the Google Cloud Partner All-stars program honors these remarkable people for their dedication to innovation and commitment to excellence. Our 2025 All-stars are pushing our industry forward, and we’re thrilled to celebrate them. 2025 […]
GCP – Production-Ready AI with Google Cloud Learning Path
We’re excited to launch the Production-Ready AI with Google Cloud Learning Path, a free series designed to take your AI projects from prototype to production. This page is the central hub for the curriculum. We’ll be updating it weekly with new modules from now through mid-December. Why We Built This: Bridging the Prototype-to-Production Gap Generative […]
GCP – Hands-on with Gemma 3 on Google Cloud
The landscape of generative AI is shifting. While proprietary APIs are powerful, there is a growing demand for open models—models where the architecture and weights are publicly available. This shift puts control back in the hands of developers, offering transparency, data privacy, and the ability to fine-tune for specific use cases. To help you navigate […]
AWS – AWS Transform Automates Landing Zone Acceleration Network Configuration
AWS Transform for VMware now allows customers to automatically generate network configurations that can be directly imported into the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS solution (LZA). Building on AWS Transform’s existing support for infrastructure-as-code generation in AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, and Terraform formats, this new capability specifically enables automatic transformation of VMware network environments into […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports new minor versions 8.0.44 and 8.4.7
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor versions 8.0.44 and 8.4.7, the latest minors released by the MySQL community. We recommend upgrading to the newer minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL and to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by […]