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AWS – AWS Lambda announces Provisioned Mode for SQS event source mapping (ESM)
AWS Lambda announces Provisioned Mode for SQS event-source-mappings (ESMs) that subscribe to Amazon SQS, a feature that allows you to optimize the throughput of your SQS ESM by provisioning event polling resources that remain ready to handle sudden spikes in traffic. SQS ESM configured with Provisioned Mode scales 3x faster (up to 1000 concurrent executions […]
GCP – Waze keeps traffic flowing with 1M+ real-time reads per second on Memorystore
Editor’s note: Waze (a division of Google parent company Alphabet) depends on vast volumes of dynamic, real-time user session data to power its core navigation features, but scaling that data to support concurrent users worldwide required a new approach. Their team built a centralized Session Server backed by Memorystore for Redis Cluster, a fully managed […]
GCP – A new top score: Advancing Text-to-SQL on the BIRD benchmark
In the fast-evolving world of agentic development, natural language is becoming the standard for interaction. This shift is deeply connected to the power of operational databases, where a more accurate text-to-SQL capability is a major catalyst for building better, more capable agents. From empowering non-technical users to self-serve data, to accelerating analyst productivity, the ability […]
GCP – Zeotap: How BigQuery ML and vector search help customers build their own AI models
Editor’s note: The post is part of a series that highlights how organizations leverage Google Cloud’s unique data science capabilities over alternative cloud data platforms. Google Cloud’s vector embedding generation and search features are unique for their end-to-end, customizable platform that leverages Google’s advanced AI research, offering features like task-optimized embedding models and hybrid search […]
GCP – Accelerating discovery at the speed of cloud: What’s New for HPC at Google Cloud for SC25
With the pace of scientific discovery moving faster than ever, we’re excited to join the supercomputing community as it gets ready for its annual flagship event, SC25, in St. Louis from November 16-21, 2025. There, we’ll share how Google Cloud is poised to help with our lineup of HPC and AI technologies and innovations, helping […]
GCP – Google Cloud Networking under the hood: How Protective ReRoute increases resilience
Cloud infrastructure reliability is foundational, yet even the most sophisticated global networks can suffer from a critical issue: slow or failed recovery from routing outages. In massive, planetary-scale networks like Google’s, router failures or complex, hidden conditions can prevent traditional routing protocols from restoring service quickly, or sometimes at all. These brief but costly outages […]
AWS – AWS IoT Services expand support of VPC endpoints and IPv6 connectivity
AWS IoT Core, AWS IoT Device Management, and AWS IoT Device Defender have expanded support for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints and IPv6. Developers can now use AWS PrivateLink to establish VPC endpoints for all data plane operations, management APIs, and credential provider. This enhancement allows IoT workloads to operate entirely within virtual private clouds […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Blue/Green deployments now supports Aurora Global Database
Amazon RDS Blue/Green deployments now support safer, simpler, and faster updates for your Aurora Global Databases. With just a few clicks, you can create a staging (green) environment that mirrors your production (blue) Aurora Global Database, including primary and all secondary regions. When you’re ready to make your staging environment the new production environment, perform […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Catalog now supports read and write access to Amazon S3
Amazon SageMaker Catalog now supports read and write access to Amazon S3 general purpose buckets. This capability helps data scientists and analysts search for unstructured data, process it alongside structured datasets, and share transformed datasets with other teams. Data publishers gain additional controls to support analytics and generative AI workflows within SageMaker Unified Studio while […]
AWS – Announcing agreement EventBridge notifications for AWS Marketplace
AWS Marketplace now delivers purchase agreement events via Amazon EventBridge, transitioning from our Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) notifications for Software as a Service and Professional Services product types. This enhancement simplifies event-driven workflows for both sellers and buyers by enabling seamless integration of AWS Marketplace Agreements, reducing operational overhead, and improving event monitoring and […]