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AWS – AWS Deadline Cloud now provides a macOS installer for submitters
AWS Deadline Cloud now provides a macOS installer for integrated submitters for Autodesk Maya, Blender, Keyshot, Maxon Cinema 4D, and SideFx Houdini. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for teams creating computer-generated graphics and visual effects, for films, television and broadcasting, web content, and design. The new installer makes […]

AWS – Amazon EBS now supports additional resource-level permissions for copying EBS snapshots
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) now supports additional resource-level permissions for copying EBS snapshots. When moving your data across Regions, accounts, and Availability Zones, you can copy any snapshot accessible to you to another Region or account, including snapshots created by you or shared with you. With this launch, you have more granular controls […]

AWS – Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing is now generally available
Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing routes prompts to different foundation models within a model family, helping you optimize for quality of responses and cost. Beginning today, Intelligent Prompt routing is generally available and adds increased configurability, allowing you to configure your router by choosing any two models from a model family and setting the routing […]

AWS – Introducing a guided visual pipeline builder for Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion
Today, we’re announcing a new visual user interface for creating and editing Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion pipelines on the AWS console. This enhancement introduces a guided visual workflow, automatic permission creation, and enhanced real-time validations to streamline the pipeline development process. The new workflow simplifies pipeline development, reducing setup time and minimizing errors, making it easier […]

AWS – Amazon Cognito now supports refresh token rotation
Amazon Cognito announces support for OAuth 2.0 refresh token rotation for user pool clients. Refresh tokens are long-lived tokens that allow applications to obtain new access tokens without requiring users to sign in again. With refresh token rotation, you can now configure your user pool clients to automatically replace existing refresh tokens with new ones […]

AWS – AWS Transfer Family introduces Terraform module for deploying SFTP server endpoints
AWS Transfer Family introduces a Terraform module for deploying managed file transfer (MFT) server endpoints backed by Amazon S3. This enables you to leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate and streamline centralized provisioning of MFT servers and users at scale. AWS Transfer Family provides fully-managed file transfers over SFTP, AS2, FTPS, FTP, and web […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 R7gd instances are now available in additional AWS Regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are available in Europe (London) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Osaka) Regions. R7gd are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors with DDR5 memory are built on the AWS Nitro System. They are ideal for memory-intensive workloads […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 C7gd instances are now available in additional AWS Regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West), Canada (Central), and Europe (London) Regions. These Graviton3-based instances with DDR5 memory are built on the AWS Nitro System and are a great fit for applications that […]

GCP – MCP Toolbox for Databases: Simplify AI Agent Access to Enterprise Data
At Google Cloud Next 25, we announced incredible ways for enterprises to build multi-agent ecosystems with Vertex AI and Google Cloud Databases – including better ways for agents to communicate with each other using Agent2Agent Protocol and Model Context Protocol (MCP). With the growing excitement around MCP for developers, we’re making it easy for MCP […]
GCP – Diving into the technology behind Google’s AI-era global network
The unprecedented growth and unique challenges of AI applications are driving fundamental architectural changes to Google’s next-generation global network. The AI era brings an explosive surge in demand for network capacity, with novel traffic patterns characteristic of large-scale model training and inference. Simultaneously, the critical need for unwavering reliability has reached new heights; in an […]