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GCP – Boost your Search and RAG agents with Vertex AI’s new state-of-the-art Ranking API
The AI era has supercharged expectations: users now issue more complex queries and demand pinpoint results, meaning there’s an 82% chance of losing a customer if they can’t quickly find what they need. Similarly, AI agents require ultra-relevant context for reliable task execution. However, when traditional search methods deliver noise – with generally up to […]
GCP – Announcing new capabilities for boosted productivity in Colab Enterprise
Colab Enterprise is a collaborative, managed notebook environment with the security and compliance capabilities of Google Cloud. Powerful integrated AI, seamless collaboration tools, enterprise readiness, and zero-config flexible compute are some of the many features making Colab Enterprise a trusted tool for developers at companies of all sizes. Today, we’re excited to announce new productivity […]
GCP – Pluto AI: Revolutionizing AI accessibility and innovation at Magyar Telekom
In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) stands as a transformative force, reshaping industries and redefining possibilities. Recognizing AI’s potential and leveraging its data landscape on Google Cloud, Magyar Telekom, Deutsche Telekom’s Hungarian operator, embarked on a journey to empower its workforce with AI knowledge and tools. This endeavor led to the creation […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: How governments can use AI to improve threat detection and reduce cost
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for May 2025. Today, Enrique Alvarez, public sector advisor, Office of the CISO, explores how government agencies can use AI to improve threat detection — and save money at the same time. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google […]
AWS – Amazon GameLift Servers SDKs are now on GitHub
The Amazon GameLift Servers team is excited to announce that the Amazon GameLift Server SDKs for C++, C#, and Go are now open source and available on the amazon-gamelift GitHub organization. The game engine plugins and SDKs for Unreal Engine and Unity along with developer scripts have been moved under the same GitHub organization for improved […]
AWS – Amazon FSx for Lustre adds new storage class that delivers the lowest-cost and only fully elastic Lustre file storage
Amazon FSx for Lustre launches the Intelligent-Tiering storage class, which delivers virtually unlimited scalability, the only fully elastic Lustre storage, and the lowest-cost Lustre file storage in the cloud. FSx for Lustre is a fully managed storage service that delivers terabytes per second of throughput, millions of IOPS, and the fastest storage performance for GPU […]
AWS – Amazon EMR enables enhanced Apache Spark capabilities for Lake Formation tables with full table access
Amazon EMR now supports read and write operations from Apache Spark jobs on AWS Lake Formation registered tables when the job role has full table access. This capability enables Data Manipulation Language (DML) operations including CREATE, ALTER, DELETE, UPDATE, and MERGE INTO statements on Apache Hive and Iceberg tables from within the same Apache Spark […]
AWS – Announcing new Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers for AWS Serverless and Containers
Today, AWS announces the release of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and Finch. MCP servers are a standard interface to enhance AI-assisted application development by equipping AI code assistants with real-time, contextual understanding of AWS Serverless and Container services including AWS Lambda, […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports granular access controls with S3 Access Points
Amazon S3 Express One Zone, a high-performance S3 storage class for latency-sensitive applications, now supports granular access controls using S3 Access Points. With S3 Access Points you can refine access based on specific prefixes or API actions. Now you can create tailored access policies for teams, applications, or individuals accessing data in S3 Express One […]
AWS – AWS Amplify Hosting announces customizable build instances
AWS Amplify Hosting is excited to offer customizable build instances to provide you with more memory and CPU configurations to build your applications. This new feature allows developers to select from multiple build instances to optimize their build environment based on their application’s specific requirements. Developers can now choose from three instance types: (Default) Standard […]