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GCP – Build software sustainably in the AI era
Artificial intelligence is reshaping our world – accelerating discovery, optimising systems, and unlocking new possibilities across every sector. But with its vast potential comes a shared responsibility. AI can be a powerful ally for transforming businesses and reducing cost. It can help organizations minimize carbon emissions, industries manage energy use, and scientists model complex climate […]
GCP – How Buildertrend Drives Innovation with Memorystore for Valkey
Editor’s note: Today we hear from Buildertrend, a leading provider of cloud-based construction management software. Since 2006, the platform has helped more than a million users globally simplify business management, track financials, and improve communication. To support this massive scale and their ambitious vision, they rely on a robust technology stack on Google Cloud, including, […]
AWS – AWS Marketplace now open for India-based sellers supporting transactions in Indian Rupees (INR)
Buyers and sellers in India can now transact locally in AWS Marketplace, with invoicing in Indian Rupees (INR), and with simplified tax compliance through AWS India. With this launch, India-based sellers can now register to sell in AWS Marketplace and offer paid subscriptions to buyers in India. India-based sellers will be able to create private […]
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) extends Multi-Region Replication to Bahrain and Hong Kong Region
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports Multi-Region Replication in the Middle East (Bahrain) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Regions. With this expansion, customers can now replicate their Amazon Keyspaces tables to and from these Regions, enabling lower latency access to data and improved regional resiliency. Amazon Keyspaces Multi-Region Replication automatically replicates data across AWS […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals adds AI-powered Synthetics debugging
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals Model Context Protocol or MCP Server for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) now integrates CloudWatch Synthetics canary monitoring directly into its audit framework, enabling automated, AI-powered debugging of synthetic monitoring failures. DevOps teams and developers can now use natural language questions like ‘Why is my checkout canary failing?’ in compatible AI assistants […]
AWS – Announcing New EC2 R8a Memory-Optimized Instances
AWS is announcing the general availability of new memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R8a instances. R8a instances, feature 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin) with a maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz, deliver up to 30% higher performance, and up to 19% better price-performance compared to R7a instances. R8a instances deliver 45% more memory bandwidth […]
GCP – GTIG AI Threat Tracker: Advances in Threat Actor Usage of AI Tools
Executive Summary Based on recent analysis of the broader threat landscape, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has identified a shift that occurred within the last year: adversaries are no longer leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) just for productivity gains, they are deploying novel AI-enabled malware in active operations. This marks a new operational phase of AI […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Recent advances in how threat actors use AI tools
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for November 2025. Today, Sandra Joyce, vice-president, Google Threat Intelligence, updates us on the state of the adversarial misuse of AI. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If you’re reading this on the website and you’d […]
GCP – Building Collaborative AI: A Developer’s Guide to Multi-Agent Systems with ADK
If you’ve ever wondered how multiple AI agents can actually work together to solve problems too complex for a single agent, you’re in the right place. This guide, based on our two-part video series, will walk you through the foundational concepts of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) and show you how Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK) makes […]
AWS – Amazon Cloudfront adds IPv6 support for Anycast Static IPs
Amazon CloudFront now supports both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for Anycast Static IP configurations. Previously, this feature was limited to IPv4 addresses only. This update now provides customers with ability to have both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses when using CloudFront Anycast Static IP addresses. Previously, customers could only use IPv4 addresses when using CloudFront Anycast […]