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AWS – Amazon Corretto April 2025 Quarterly Updates
On Apr 15, 2025 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) and Feature Release (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 24.0.1, 21.0.7, 17.0.15, 11.0.27, 8u452 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Click on the Corretto home page to download Corretto 8, […]
GCP – AI and BI converge: A deep dive into Gemini in Looker
Driven by generative AI innovations, the Business Intelligence (BI) landscape is undergoing significant transformation, as businesses look to bring data insights to their organization in new and intuitive ways, lowering traditional barriers that have often kept discoveries out of the hands of the broader organization. We’re spearheading this trend with Gemini in Looker, which builds […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 I7ie instances now available in AWS Europe (Ireland) region
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of Amazon EC2 I7ie instances in the AWS Europe (Ireland) region. Designed for large storage I/O intensive workloads, these new instances are powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, offering up to 40% better compute performance and 20% better […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M7i-flex instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i-flex instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. M7i-flex instances […]
GCP – A New Era of Innovation: Public Sector Highlights from Next ‘25
We’re at an inflection point right now, where every industry and entire societies are witnessing sweeping change, with AI as the driving force. This isn’t just about incremental improvements, it’s about total transformation. The public sector is already experiencing sweeping change with the introduction of AI, and that pace will only intensify. This is the […]
AWS – Amazon Q Developer is now generally available in the AWS Europe (Frankfurt) Region
Amazon Q Developer in the AWS Management Console and Amazon Q Developer in the IDE is now GA in the Europe (Frankfurt) Region. Pro tier customers can now use and configure Amazon Q Developer in the AWS Management Console and Amazon Q Developer in the IDE to store data in the Europe (Frankfurt) Region and […]
AWS – AWS Lambda@Edge announces advanced logging controls
AWS Lambda@Edge now supports AWS Lambda’s advanced logging controls to improve how function logs are captured, processed, and consumed at the edge. This enhancement provides you with more control over your logging data, making it easier to monitor application behavior and quickly resolve issues. The new advanced logging controls for Lambda@Edge give you three flexible […]
AWS – Amazon Q Business launches support for hallucination mitigation in chat responses
Today, Amazon Q Business is launching a feature to reduce hallucinations in chat responses. Hallucinations are confident responses made by generative AI applications that are not justified by its underlying data. The new feature enables customers to mitigate hallucinations in real-time during chat conversations. Large Language Models (LLMs) underlying generative AI applications have reduced the […]
AWS – Amazon SES now supports logging email sending events through AWS CloudTrail
Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) launched support for logging email sending events through AWS CloudTrail. Customers can maintain a record of email send actions performed using the SES APIs, including actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service in SES. Previously, customers could use SES event destinations to route sending event notifications […]
GCP – Announcing cloud-native integration of security service edge (SSE) with Cloud WAN
Last week at Google Cloud Next 25, we announced Cloud WAN, a fully managed, reliable, and secure solution for enterprise wide area network (WAN) architectures that’s built on Google’s planet-scale network. Today, we begin a series of deep dives into the products that power Cloud WAN, starting with NCC Gateway, a new regionally managed spoke […]