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GCP – GoGuardian and Google Cloud partner to transform teaching and learning experiences
With products that serve over 150 million students globally, Google has a responsibility to meet the rapidly evolving needs of students, educators, and administrators. Google for Education and Google Cloud work together to partner with the most innovative EdTech companies to help to make learning more personal, safer, and accessible in the classroom and beyond. […]

GCP – Unleash your AI workloads with Google Cloud’s latest storage solutions
As businesses continue to grapple with the unique storage and access demands of data-intensive AI workloads, they’re looking to the cloud to deliver highly capable, cost-effective, and easily manageable storage solutions. To deliver the right cloud storage solution for the right application, today we’re launching three new solutions: Parallelstore, a parallel file system for demanding […]

GCP – How Codeway uses Cloud Storage FUSE for their generative AI avatar portrait maker
In this blog, we hear from Codeway, an app development company that builds innovative apps and games using AI, and how it uses the recently launched Cloud Storage FUSE solution as part of its generative AI workflow on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Cloud Storage. Cloud Storage FUSE allows objects in Cloud Storage buckets to […]

GCP – Cloud Storage FUSE is now optimized for GKE and AI workloads
Google Cloud’s Cloud Storage is home to reams of training data, models and checkpoints that you need to train and serve AI workloads, delivering the scale, performance, simplicity and cost-effectiveness that are the hallmarks of a cloud storage system. But when it comes time for an AI workload to actually access that data, it isn’t […]

GCP – Introducing Google Cloud NetApp Volumes: Fully managed file storage for enterprise workloads
Enterprise applications require a solution that delivers control, protection, and efficiency without sacrificing flexibility. That’s why we’re excited to announce that, starting today, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes is now generally available as a first-party, fully managed service on Google Cloud. Imagine being able to provision, automate, and scale a file storage service with just a […]

GCP – Supporting generative AI development with our data cloud partners
Today, our data and analytics partners are rolling out new updates and integrations with Google Cloud to help customers significantly reduce the time it takes to go from managing data to building new AI tools and workflows. These partner solutions represent a significant step forward in Google Cloud’s mission to offer the industry’s most open […]

AWS – AWS Certificate Manager introduces Enterprise Controls to help govern certificate issuance
Enterprise, network and security admins can now use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) condition context keys with AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to help ensure that users are issuing certificates that conform to their organization’s public key infrastructure (PKI) guidelines. For example, you can use condition keys to allow only DNS validation. Or, you can […]

AWS – AWS Storage Gateway is now available in AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
AWS Storage Gateway expands availability to the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region enabling customers to deploy and manage hybrid cloud storage for their on-premises workloads. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Athena is now available in AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
With today’s release, Amazon Athena and its latest features and benefits are available in the AWS Israel (Tel-Aviv) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd instances now available in Europe (Frankfurt) region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are available in Europe (Frankfurt) region. They have up to 45% improved real-time NVMe storage performance than comparable Graviton2-based instances. These Graviton3-based instances with DDR5 memory are built on the AWS […]