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GCP – Powering public sector innovation: New networking features in GDC air-gapped
For organizations with stringent sovereignty and regulatory requirements, Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) air-gapped delivers a fully-managed experience with critical advanced networking capabilities. But operating in a completely isolated environment presents some unique networking challenges. Routine tasks become significantly more complex and manual, demanding more planning and bespoke solutions than on a connected network. Today, we’re […]

AWS – AWS Clean Rooms supports incremental and distributed training for custom modeling
AWS Clean Rooms now supports two enhancements to its machine learning capabilities that help you train models more efficiently and at scale to generate predictive insights in a Clean Rooms collaboration. Incremental training enables you to build upon existing model artifacts to create new models, and distributed training allows you to train models across multiple […]

AWS – AWS re:Post Private launches channels for targeted and secure organizational collaboration
Today, AWS re:Post Private announces the launch of channels, designed to enhance collaborative knowledge sharing within companies. Channels allow companies to create secure, dedicated private spaces within their re:Post Private environment, tailored to specific teams, projects, or topics. With channels, companies invite relevant users to collaboratively solve problems and build a team-specific knowledge base. Teams […]

AWS – AWS HealthImaging launches support for DICOMweb STOW-RS data imports
AWS HealthImaging announces support for storing DICOM P10 files to HealthImaging via the DICOMweb STOW-RS protocol. Now it’s easier than ever to import your medical imaging data to HealthImaging. This launch offers a synchronous data import action that is ideal for latency sensitive workflows, such as storing new medical imaging studies, annotations, and reports. With […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Catalog adds AI recommendations for descriptions of custom assets
Amazon SageMaker Catalog, part of the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, now supports AI recommendations for descriptions—including table summaries, use cases, and column-level descriptions—for custom structured assets registered programmatically. This applies to a wide range of assets, for example, Iceberg tables in Amazon S3, or datasets from third-party and internal applications. Building on existing automated […]

AWS – AWS announces new AWS Data Transfer Terminal location in Munich
Today, AWS announces the opening of a new AWS Data Transfer Terminal location within Equinix MU1 in Munich, Germany. This marks AWS’s first Data Transfer Terminal outside the United States and its debut in Europe. Data Transfer Terminal is a secure, physical location where you can bring your storage devices and upload data to AWS […]

AWS – AWS announces availability of ECS Optimized Windows Server 2025 AMIs
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced Amazon ECS Optimized Windows AMIs compatible with Windows Server 2025, offering two distinct platforms: 2025-Core and 2025-Full. These AMIs are specifically engineered to support Windows container deployments on Amazon ECS. Each AMI comes ready-to-use with essential components and optimizations tailored for running containerized workloads, streamlining the container deployment process. […]

AWS – Amazon Q in Connect now supports 7 languages for proactive recommendations
Amazon Q in Connect, a generative AI-powered assistant for customer service, now supports 6 additional languages for offering proactive recommendations for customer service agents to resolve issues quickly and accurately. Amazon Q in Connect detects customer intent during voice and chat interactions in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean, in addition to English. Amazon […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora MySQL and Amazon RDS for MySQL integration with Amazon SageMaker is now available
On June 30, 2025, AWS announced that Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon RDS for MySQL now support zero-ETL integration with Amazon SageMaker, enabling near real-time data availability for analytics workloads. This integration automatically extracts and loads data from MySQL tables into your lakehouse where it’s immediately accessible through various analytics engines and machine learning […]
AWS – AWS Transform now analyzes EBS costs, .NET complexity and expands chat guidance
Today, AWS Transform introduced three enhancements to help you better assess and plan your migration and modernization journey. These new features include enhanced assessments to analyze EBS cost, .NET agent to analyze code complexity, and an expanded interactive chat interface for .NET modernization guidance. First, AWS Transform assessments now includes Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) […]