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AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in US East (Ohio) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 24TB of memory (u-24tb1.112xlarge) are available in the US East (Ohio) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 I7i high performance Storage Optimized instances
Amazon Web Services is announcing the general availability of next generation high performance Storage Optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances. Powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7i instances offer up to 45TB of NVMe storage with up to 50% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and up to 60% lower […]
AWS – AWS Client VPN now supports Client Routes Enforcement
Today, AWS announced a new AWS Client VPN feature that monitors device networking routes, prevents VPN traffic leaks, and strengthens remote access security. The feature continuously tracks your users’ device routing tables to ensure outbound traffic flows through the VPN tunnel according to your configured settings. If the feature detects any modified networking route settings, […]
AWS – Writer’s Palmyra X5 and X4 models are now available in Amazon Bedrock
Writer’s enterprise-grade foundation models, Palmyra X5 and X4, are now available as fully managed, serverless models in Amazon Bedrock. AWS is the first cloud provider to offer fully managed models from Writer, allowing organizations to leverage enterprise AI capabilities with serverless scalability and cost optimization. Palmyra X5 has a one million token context window, while Palmyra […]
GCP – Introducing BigQuery DataFrames 2.0 for the era of multimodal data science
For data scientists and ML engineers, building analysis and models in Python is almost second nature, and Python’s popularity in the data science community has only skyrocketed with the recent generative AI boom. We believe that the future of data science is no longer just about neatly organized rows and columns. For decades, many valuable […]
GCP – Waze’s journey to Infrastructure as Code with Google Cloud’s KCC
In 2023, the Waze platform engineering team transitioned to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Google Cloud’s Config Connector (KCC) — and we haven’t looked back since. We embraced Config Connector, an open-source Kubernetes add-on, to manage Google Cloud resources through Kubernetes. To streamline management, we also leverage Config Controller, a hosted version of Config Connector […]
GCP – Announcing the first cohort of the Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First UK
At Google, we believe in empowering people and founders to use AI to tackle humanity’s biggest challenges. That’s why we’re supporting the next generation of AI leaders through our Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First programs. We announced the program in January and today, we’re proud to welcome 16 UK-based startups into our accelerator community […]
GCP – From insight to action: M-Trends, agentic AI, and how we’re boosting defenders at RSAC 2025
Cybersecurity is facing a unique moment, where AI-enhanced threat intelligence, products, and services are poised to give defenders an advantage over the threats they face that’s proven elusive — until now. To empower security teams and business leaders in the AI era, and to help organizations proactively combat evolving threats, today at RSA Conference we’re […]
GCP – The dawn of agentic AI in security operations
The daily grind of sifting through endless alerts and repetitive tasks is burdening security teams. Too often, defenders struggle to keep up with evolving threats, but the rapid pace of AI advancement means it doesn’t have to be that way. Today at the RSA Conference, as we introduce M-Trends 2025 and discuss how we’re boosting […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Data Automation now supports modality controls, hyperlinks and larger documents
Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) now supports modality enablement, modality routing by file type, extraction of embedded hyperlinks when processing documents in Standard Output, and an increased overall document page limit of 3,000 pages. These new features give you more control over how your multimodal content is processed and improve BDA’s overall document extraction capabilities. […]