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GCP – AI infrastructure is hot. New power distribution and liquid cooling infrastructure can help
AI is fundamentally transforming the compute landscape, demanding unprecedented advances in data center infrastructure. At Google, we believe that physical infrastructure — the power, cooling, and mechanical systems that underpin everything — isn’t just important, but critical to AI’s continued scaling. We have a long-standing partnership with the Open Compute Project (OCP) that has been […]
GCP – What’s new with BigQuery AI and ML?
At Next ’25, we introduced several new innovations within BigQuery, the autonomous data to AI platform. BigQuery ML provides a full range of AI and ML capabilities, enabling you to easily build generative AI and predictive ML applications with BigQuery. The new AI and ML capabilities from BigQuery ML include: a new state-of-the-art pre-trained forecasting […]
GCP – SandboxAQ: Accelerating drug discovery through cloud integration
The traditional drug discovery process involves massive capital investments, prolonged timelines, and is plagued with daunting failure rates. From initial research to obtaining regulatory approval, bringing a new drug to market can take decades. During this time, many drug candidates that had seemed very promising fail to deliver, either due to inefficacy or safety concerns. […]
AWS – Meta’s Llama 4 now available fully managed in Amazon Bedrock
The first models in the new Llama 4 herd of models—Llama 4 Scout 17B and Llama 4 Maverick 17B—are now available fully managed in Amazon Bedrock. You can power your applications with Llama 4 through Amazon Bedrock’s fully managed service via a single API. These advanced multimodal models empower you to build more tailored applications […]
GCP – How Conversational Analytics helps users make the most of their data
At Google Cloud Next 25, we expanded the availability of Gemini in Looker, including Conversational Analytics, to all Looker platform users, redefining how line-of-business employees can rapidly gain access to trusted data-driven insights through natural language. Due to the complexity inherent in traditional business intelligence products, which require steep learning curves or advanced SQL knowledge, […]
GCP – Hello 0-Days, My Old Friend: A 2024 Zero-Day Exploitation Analysis
Written by: Casey Charrier, James Sadowski, Clement Lecigne, Vlad Stolyarov Executive Summary Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) tracked 75 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild in 2024, a decrease from the number we identified in 2023 (98 vulnerabilities), but still an increase from 2022 (63 vulnerabilities). We divided the reviewed vulnerabilities into two main categories: […]
AWS – AWS Amplify enhances developer tooling with refined output and CDK-style notices
AWS Amplify introduces two key improvements to its backend tooling: streamlined deployment output using the AWS CDK Toolkit and a new notice system for local development. These updates optimize how developers receive deployment status information and important messages directly in their terminal when executing Amplify commands. These enhancements improve the development experience by focusing on […]
AWS – Automated HTTP validated public certificates with Amazon CloudFront
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) announces automated public TLS certificates for Amazon CloudFront. CloudFront customers can now simply check a box to receive required public certificates to enable TLS when creating new CloudFront content delivery applications. ACM and CloudFront work together to automatically request, issue and associate the required public certificates with CloudFront. ACM will also […]
AWS – Amazon Route 53 Profiles now supports VPC endpoints
Today, AWS announced support for VPC endpoints in Amazon Route 53 Profiles, allowing you to create, manage, and share private hosted zones (PHZs) for interface VPC endpoints across multiple VPCs and AWS accounts within your organization. With this enhancement, Amazon Route 53 Profiles simplifies the management of VPC endpoints by streamlining the process of creating […]
AWS – Announcing SaaS Manager for Amazon CloudFront
Today, AWS announces CloudFront SaaS Manager, a new Amazon CloudFront feature designed to efficiently manage content delivery across multiple websites for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers, web development platforms, and companies with multiple brands/websites. CloudFront SaaS Manager provides a unified experience, alleviating the operational burden of managing multiple websites at scale, including TLS certificate management, DDoS protection, […]