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AWS – Amazon CloudFront announces cross-account support for VPC origins
Amazon CloudFront announces cross-account support for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) origins, enabling customers to access VPC origins that reside in different AWS accounts from their CloudFront distributions. With VPC origins, customers can have their Application Load Balancers (ALB), Network Load Balancers (NLB), and EC2 Instances in a private subnet that is accessible only through their […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights expands anomaly detection in on-demand analysis
Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now detects anomalies on additional metrics through its on-demand analysis experience. Database Insights is a monitoring and diagnostics solution that helps database administrators and application developers optimize database performance by providing comprehensive visibility into database metrics, query performance, and resource utilization patterns. The on-demand analysis feature utilizes machine learning to help […]
AWS – Amazon FSx now integrates with AWS Secrets Manager for enhanced management of Active Directory credentials
Amazon FSx now integrates with AWS Secrets Manager, enabling enhanced protection and management of the Active Directory domain service account credentials for your FSx for Windows File Server file systems and FSx for NetApp ONTAP Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs). Previously, if you wanted to join your FSx for Windows file system or FSx for ONTAP […]
GCP – More ways to build, scale, and govern AI agents with Vertex AI Agent Builder
Many developers are prototyping AI agents, but moving to a scalable, secure, and well-managed production agent is far more complex. Vertex AI Agent Builder is Google Cloud’s comprehensive and open platform to build, scale, and govern reliable agents. As a suite of products, it provides the choice builders need to create powerful agentic systems at […]
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 […]