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GCP – Introducing Bigtable tiered storage: Save more data, longer, for less
Today, we’re pleased to introduce a new Bigtable storage tier for efficient management of massive datasets, now available in preview. This fully managed, cost-effective system automatically moves less frequently accessed data from high-performance SSDs to infrequent access storage, lowering your total cost of ownership. With tiered storage in Bigtable, you can access and modify data […]
AWS – Amazon Location Service introduces new API key restrictions
Today, AWS announced enhanced API key restrictions for Amazon Location Service, enabling developers to secure their location-based applications more effectively. This new capability helps organizations that need to restrict API access to specific mobile applications, providing improved security controls for location services across their application portfolio. Developers can now create granular security policies by restricting […]
AWS – Amazon Cognito now supports resource indicators to simplify enhancing protection of OAuth 2.0 resources
Amazon Cognito now enables app clients to specify resource indicators during access token requests as part of its OAuth 2.0 authorization code grant and implicit grant flows. The resource indicator identifies the protected resource, such as a user’s bank account record or a specific file in a file server that the user needs to access. […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Serverless is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia) regions
Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia) regions. With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users, including data analysts, developers, and data scientists, can use Amazon Redshift to get insights […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker adds additional search context for search results
Amazon SageMaker enhances search results in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio with additional context that improves transparency and interpretability. Users can see which metadata fields matched their query and understand why each result appears, increasing clarity and trust in data discovery. The capability introduces inline highlighting for matched terms and an explanation panel that details where […]
AWS – Amazon ECS Managed Instances now available in all commercial AWS Regions
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Managed Instances is now available in all commercial AWS Regions. ECS Managed Instances is a fully managed compute option designed to eliminate infrastructure management overhead while giving you access to the full capabilities of Amazon EC2. By offloading infrastructure operations to AWS, you get the application performance you want […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports predictive scaling in six more regions
Customers can now enable predictive scaling for their Auto Scaling groups (ASGs) in six more regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Israel (Tel Aviv), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich). Predictive Scaling can proactively scale out your ASGs to be ready for upcoming demand. This allows you to avoid the need to […]
AWS – Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer and Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
With this launch, Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer and Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer are now available in both AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. VPC Reachability Analyzer allows you to diagnose network reachability between a source resource and a destination resource in your virtual private clouds (VPCs) by analyzing your network configurations. For […]
AWS – Aurora DSQL now supports resource-based policies
Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports resource-based policies, enabling you to simplify access control for your Aurora DSQL resources. With resource-based policies, you can specify Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals and the specific IAM actions they can perform against your Aurora DSQL resources. Resource-based policies also enable you to implement Block Public Access (BPA), which […]
GCP – 5 ad agencies used Gemini 2.5 Pro and gen media models to create an “impossible ad”
The conversation around generative AI in the enterprise is getting creative. Since launching our popular Nano Banana model, consumers have created 13 billion images and 230 million videos1. Enterprises can combine Gemini 2.5 Pro with our generative media models – Lyria, Chirp, Imagen, and Veo – to bring their ideas to life. To us, generative […]
