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AWS – Amazon EventBridge introduces enhanced visual rule builder
Amazon EventBridge introduces a new intuitive console based visual rule builder with a comprehensive event catalog for discovering and subscribing to events from custom applications, and over 200 AWS services. The new rule builder integrates the EventBridge Schema Registry with an updated event catalog and intuitive drag and drop canvas that simplifies building event-driven applications. […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall is now available in the AWS New Zealand (Auckland) region
Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is available in the AWS New Zealand (Auckland) Region, enabling customers to deploy essential network protections for all their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). AWS Network Firewall is a managed firewall service that is easy to deploy. The service automatically scales with network traffic volume to provide high-availability protections without […]
AWS – AWS CloudFormation Hooks adds granular invocation details for Hooks invocation summary
Building on the Hooks Invocation Summary launched in September 2025, AWS CloudFormation Hooks now supports granular invocation details. Hook authors can supplement their Hook evaluation responses with detailed findings, finding severity, and remediation advice. The Hooks console now displays these details at the individual control level within each invocation, enabling developers to quickly identify and […]
GCP – Technical guide: Four steps for startups to build multi-agent systems
AI agents are transforming the nature of work by automating complex workflows with speed, scale, and accuracy. At the same time, startups are constantly moving, growing, and evolving – which means they need clear ways to implement agentic workflows, not piles of documentation that send precious resources into a tailspin. Today, we’ll share a simple […]
GCP – An open approach to security: Announcing Google Unified Security Recommended
At Google Cloud, we believe that being at the forefront of driving secure innovation and meeting the evolving needs of customers includes working with partners. The reality is that the security landscape should be interoperable, and your security tools should be able to integrate with each other. Google Unified Security, our AI-powered, converged security solution, […]
GCP – Talk with and trust your data using Looker’s Conversational Analytics, now GA
In a world of increasing data volume and demand, businesses are looking to make faster decisions and separate insight from noise. Today, we’re bringing Conversational Analytics to general availability in Looker, delivering natural language queries to everyone in your organization, removing BI bottlenecks. With Conversational Analytics, we’re transforming the way you get answers, cutting through […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now provides metrics on completion of agent performance evaluations by managers
Amazon Connect now provides metrics that measure completion of agent performance evaluations, improving manager productivity and evaluation consistency. Businesses can monitor if the required number of evaluations for their agents have been completed, ensuring compliance with internal policies (e.g., complete 5 evaluations per agent per month), regulatory requirements, and labor union agreements. Additionally, businesses can […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20, and 13.23
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20, and 13.23. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes added by the PostgreSQL community. This release includes the […]
AWS – AWS IoT Core adds location resolution capabilities for Amazon Sidewalk enabled devices
AWS IoT Core Device Location announces location resolution capabilities for Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected to Amazon Sidewalk network, enabling developers to build asset tracking and geo-fencing applications more efficiently by eliminating the need for GPS hardware in low-power devices. Amazon Sidewalk provides a secure community network through Amazon Sidewalk Gateways (compatible Amazon Echo […]
AWS – AWS Health enhances Amazon EventBridge to give more flexibility and higher resilience
Customers using Amazon EventBridge can now setup rules for AWS Health events with multi-region redundancy, or choose a simplified path by creating a single rule to capture all Health events. With this enhancement, Health sends all events simultaneously to US West (Oregon) as well as the individual region of impact. For more information customers can […]