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                                                                AWS – AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds support for Amazon Corretto 25 and Tomcat 11
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now enables customers to build and deploy Tomcat 11 applications using Amazon Corretto 25 on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) platform. This latest platform support allows developers to leverage the newest Java 25 and Jakarta EE 11 features while benefiting from AL2023’s enhanced security and performance capabilities. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service […]
                                                                    
                                                                AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances are now available in AWS Europe (London) Region
Amazon EC2 U7i-8tb (u7i-8tb.112xlarge) instances are now available in the AWS Europe (London) region. U7i-8tb instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids), delivering up to 135% more compute performance over existing U-1 instances. U7i-8tb instances offer 8TiB of DDR5 memory enabling customers […]
                                                                    
                                                                AWS – Web Grounding: Build accurate AI applications with Amazon Nova models
We are excited to announce the general availability of Web Grounding, a new built-in tool for Nova models. Customers can use Web Grounding today with Nova Premier using the Amazon Bedrock tool use API. Support for additional Nova models is coming soon. Web Grounding is a built-in tool that can be used to retrieve and […]
                                                                    
                                                                GCP – A New Era: Highlights from Google Public Sector Summit
Welcome to a new era, marked by unprecedented innovation, greater efficiency, elevated citizen experiences, and profound mission impact, all driven by groundbreaking advancements in technology. At the Google Public Sector Summit today in Washington D.C., public sector leaders are discussing the implications of these opportunities and how to re-imagine what’s possible. Organizations across the public […]
                                                                    
                                                                GCP – Announcing docs.cloud.google.com: The new home for Google Cloud documentation
We’ve reached a significant milestone in improving our documentation experience with the launch of a new, dedicated home for all Google Cloud technical documentation at https://docs.cloud.google.com. This initiative is the latest step in our AI-first transformation of how we deliver the technical documentation you rely on every day. Building a new foundation AI is transforming […]
                                                                    
                                                                AWS – AWS Control Tower is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region
Starting today, customers can use AWS Control Tower in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. With this launch, AWS Control Tower is available in 34 AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It simplifies AWS experiences […]
                                                                    
                                                                GCP – The Blueprint: How Giles AI transforms medical research with conversational AI
Welcome to The Blueprint, a new feature where we highlight how Google Cloud customers are tackling unique and common challenges across industries using the latest AI and cloud technologies. We hope to inspire others looking to innovate in their work. The challenge: Giles AI is a London-based startup that helps healthcare and life sciences organizations […]
                                                                    
                                                                GCP – Expanding our NVIDIA partnership: Now shipping A4X Max, Vertex AI Training, and more
Today’s AI models are moving from billions to trillions of parameters, and are capable of complex, multi-modal reasoning. This leap in sophistication demands a new class of purpose-built infrastructure and software to handle the immense computational and memory requirements of these next-generation models. At Google Cloud, we’re committed to empowering developers and organizations to build […]
                                                                    
                                                                GCP – Unlock the AI performance you need: Introducing managed DRANET for A4X Max on GKE
As AI/ML models grow, their infrastructure demands are pushing traditional networking to its limit, creating critical performance bottlenecks. This is especially true for models running on Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). At Google, we’ve been working in the open-source community to make Kubernetes aware of specialized hardware capabilities. For example, we’ve been active in […]
                                                                    
                                                                GCP – From Oracle transactions to AI actions: Activate your data with intelligent automation
Many enterprises have built their foundational business operations on robust transactional systems powered by Oracle Database. And with Oracle on Google Cloud, they can deploy and manage Oracle Database instances directly within Google Cloud’s highly scalable and secure infrastructure, benefiting from low-latency network connectivity and integrated services. But in today’s digitized world, data utilization is […]
