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GCP – New AI tools help partners increase efficiency and growth
At Google Cloud, we’re building the most enterprise-ready cloud for the AI era, which includes ensuring our partner ecosystem has the best technology, support, and resources to optimally serve customers. Today, we’re announcing two AI-powered tools that will enable partners to more efficiently complete manual tasks and access information, while augmenting their capabilities with a […]
GCP – Tools Make an Agent: From Zero to Assistant with ADK
Imagine that you’re a project manager at QuantumRoast, a global coffee machine company. You help your teammates navigate a sea of engineering roadmaps, sudden strategy pivots (we’re doing matcha now!), and incoming tickets from customers— everything from buggy invoice systems to a coffee machine that’s making a high-pitched noise 24/7. On a regular day, you […]
AWS – Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports Amazon S3 access
You can now attach Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Access Points to your Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems so that you can access your file data as if it were in S3. With this new capability, your file data in FSx for OpenZFS is accessible for use with the broad range of artificial […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker now supports automatic synchronization from Git to S3
Today, AWS announces a new feature for Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio that automatically synchronizes files from project Git repositories to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio is a single data and AI development environment that brings together functionality and tools from AWS Analytics and AI/ML services services. It facilitates building, […]
GCP – Google named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave for security analytics platforms
We are excited to announce that Google has been named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Security Analytics Platforms, Q2 2025, in our first year of participation. The report acknowledges Google Cloud’s vision which relies heavily on Mandiant’s roots in threat-intelligence-driven security operations, which are evident in the platform. For us, this recognition validates […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Flows announces preview of persistent long-running execution and inline-code support
Amazon Bedrock Flows enables you to link foundation models (FMs), Amazon Bedrock Prompts, Amazon Bedrock Agents, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails and other AWS services together to build and scale pre-defined generative AI workflows. Today, we announce the preview of persistent execution for long running workflows, and inline-code execution support within the flows. […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C7g instances are now available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g instances are available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Tables are now available in two additional AWS Regions
Amazon S3 Tables are now available in two additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central). S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support, and the easiest way to store tabular data at scale. With this expansion, S3 Tables are now generally available in thirty-two AWS Regions. To learn […]
AWS – AWS Glue enables enhanced Apache Spark capabilities for AWS Lake Formation tables with full table access
AWS Glue now supports read and write operations from AWS Glue 5.0 Apache Spark jobs on AWS Lake Formation registered tables when the job role has full table access. This capability enables Data Manipulation Language (DML) operations including CREATE, ALTER, DELETE, UPDATE, and MERGE INTO statements on Apache Hive and Iceberg tables from within the […]
GCP – How Schroders built its multi-agent financial analysis research assistant
Financial analysts spend hours grappling with ever-increasing volumes of market and company data to extract key signals, combine diverse data sources, and produce company research. Schroders is a leading global active investment manager. Being an active manager means understanding investment opportunities — combining rigorous research, innovative thinking and deep market perspective — to help build […]