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AWS – AWS Resource Explorer supports 120 new resource types
AWS Resource Explorer now supports 120 more resource types across all AWS commercial Regions from services including Amazon API Gateway, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Kendra, Amazon Sagemaker, and more. With this release, customers can now search for the following resource types in AWS Resource Explorer: 1. apigateway:restapis/deployments 61. iotwireless:WirelessDevice 2. apigateway:restapis/resources/methods 62. iotwireless:WirelessGateway 3. apigateway:restapis/resources 63. […]

GCP – How Wells Fargo is using Google Cloud AI to empower its workforce with agentic tools
The financial services industry has hit a technology tipping point. AI is fundamentally reshaping how people interact with their financial institutions, and this has forced banks to deliver unprecedented agility, efficiency, and personalization. Today, Wells Fargo and Google Cloud are excited to announce an expansion of their strategic relationship, which will transform how Wells Fargo […]

AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise introduces asset model interfaces
AWS IoT SiteWise is a managed service that simplifies the collection, organization, and monitoring of industrial equipment data at scale. Today, we are excited to announce asset model interfaces in AWS IoT SiteWise, a new feature that enables industrial customers to define and maintain standardized properties and metrics across similar equipment and process types, while […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch introduces organization-wide VPC flow logs enablement
Amazon CloudWatch now allows customers to automatically enable Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) flow logs to CloudWatch logs across their AWS Organization. Customers can create enablement rules in CloudWatch Telemetry Config that automatically creates flow logs for both existing and newly created VPCs matching the rule scope, ensuring consistent monitoring coverage. With today’s launch, customers […]

AWS – Amazon Lightsail is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Starting today, Amazon Lightsail is available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. This expansion brings the power and simplicity of Lightsail to customers in Indonesia and surrounding regions. With this launch, customers in Indonesia and nearby countries can now enjoy lower latency and better performance for their applications while meeting local data residency requirements. The […]

GCP – Your epic quest awaits: Conquer the Agentverse
Google Cloud Labs is assembling a party of adventurers for a live-action quest: The Agentverse. This is no mere lecture hall; it’s a hands-on training ground where you’ll forge your skills in the heat of battle. You’ll leave this mission not with notes, but with legendary skills that you’ve earned yourself. At the heart of […]

AWS – AWS Parallel Computing Service now supports Slurm SPANK plugins
Today, AWS announced that AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) supports SPANK (Slurm Plug-in Architecture for Node and job [K]control) plugins, enabling you to extend and modify how Slurm schedules and processes your high performance computing (HPC) workloads without modifying Slurm directly. Using SPANK plugins, you can now integrate AWS PCS with container technologies, implement […]

GCP – How MLB keeps fans connected to the game – one cache hit at a time
Editor’s note: Major League Baseball (MLB) delivers data in real time to millions of fans, apps, and broadcasters — tracking everything from pitch speeds to player positions. To keep pace, the Baseball Data Platform team turned to Memorystore for Valkey, Google Cloud’s fully managed in-memory data service. It’s helped MLB handle billions of daily requests, […]

GCP – Optimize your cloud costs using Cloud Hub Optimization and Cost Explorer
Application owners are looking for three things when they think about optimizing cloud costs: What are the most expensive resources? Which resources are costing me more this week or month? Which resources are poorly utilized? To help you answer these questions quickly and easily, we announced Cloud Hub Optimization and Cost Explorer, in private preview, […]
AWS – Amazon SQS increases maximum message payload size to 1 MiB
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) has increased the maximum message payload size from 256 KiB to 1 MiB, enabling customers to send and receive larger messages through their Amazon SQS standard and FIFO queues. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and […]