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GCP – Nutanix NC2 is now officially supported on Google Cloud
Today, we are thrilled to announce Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is generally available on Google Cloud. NC2 on Google Cloud is designed to migrate and modernize specialized, regulated, and mission-critical applications without refactoring your workloads or compromising on performance. This partnership brings the power of Google Cloud’s infrastructure and advanced AI models to your hybrid […]
AWS – Amazon GameLift Servers enhances AWS Console for game developers with AI powered assistance
Today, Amazon GameLift Servers is launching AI-powered assistance in the AWS Console, leveraging Amazon Q Developer to provide tailored guidance for game developers. This new feature integrates specialized GameLift Servers knowledge to help customers navigate complex workflows, troubleshoot issues, and optimize their game server deployments more efficiently. Developers can now access AI-assisted recommendations for game […]
AWS – Amazon RDS and Aurora now support resource tagging for Automated Backups
Amazon RDS and Aurora now support resource tagging for automated backups and cluster automated backups. You can now tag your automated backups separately from the parent DB instance or DB cluster, enabling Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) and simplifying resource management and cost tracking. With this launch, you can tag automated backups in the same way […]
GCP – Streamline the design and deployment of application infrastructure with Application Design Center, now GA
Earlier this year, we unveiled a big investment in platform and developer team productivity, with the launch of Application Design Center, helping them streamline the design and deployment of cloud application infrastructure, while ensuring applications are secure, reliable, and aligned with best practices. And today, Application Design Center is generally available. We built Application Design […]
GCP – Is your DR plan just wishful thinking? Prove your resilience with chaos engineering
When was the last time you knew — not just hoped — that your disaster recovery plan would work perfectly? For most of us, the answer is unclear. Sure, you may have a DR plan, a meticulously crafted document stored in a wiki or a shared drive, that gets dusted off for compliance audits or […]
AWS – Amazon Quick Suite integrates Quick Research with Quick Flows for report automation
Amazon Quick Suite now includes Quick Research as a step within Quick Flows. This integration enables teams to generate comprehensive research reports as part of automated, multi-step workflows, transforming research projects into reusable workflows that can be shared across their organization. Quick Suite is Amazon’s new AI-powered workspace that helps organizations get answers from their […]
GCP – Integrating MedGemma into clinical workflows just got easier!
Our team, Google Heath AI Developer Foundations, introduced MedGemma earlier this year in May and later followed up in July with a 27-billion-parameter multimodal variant plus MedGemma’s vision encoder: MedSigLIP. We’ve been humbled by the wide variety of model adaptations, research papers, and applications MedGemma has created across academia and industry! Our aim is to […]
AWS – Announcing Spatial Data Management on AWS to accelerate spatial-data insights
Today, AWS is announcing Spatial Data Management on AWS (SDMA), a solution that enables customers to store, enrich, and connect spatial data at scale. SDMA enables customers to store their multimodal spatial data representing their physical assets (3D, geospatial, behavioral, temporal data) in a secure, centralized cloud environment. SDMA serves as a collaborative hub enabling […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches WhatsApp channel for Outbound Campaigns
Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns now supports WhatsApp, expanding on the WhatsApp Business messaging capabilities that already allow customers to contact your agents. You can now engage customers through proactive, automated campaigns on their preferred messaging platform, delivering timely communications such as appointment reminders, payment notifications, order updates, and product recommendations directly through WhatsApp. Setting up […]
AWS – AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Node.js 24 on Amazon Linux 2023
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now enables customers to build and deploy Node.js 24 applications on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) platform. This latest platform support allows developers to leverage the newest features and improvements in Node.js while taking advantage of the enhanced security and performance of AL2023. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that provides the ability […]