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AWS – The next generation of Amazon SageMaker is now available in an additional region
The next generation of Amazon SageMaker is now available in AWS Europe (Stockholm). Amazon SageMaker is the center for all your data, analytics, and AI. From SageMaker Unified Studio, you can discover your data and put it to work using familiar AWS tools for model development, generative AI app development, data processing, and SQL analytics. […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.5.29 and 10.6.22
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.5.29 and 10.6.22. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community. You […]
AWS – AWS service changes
At AWS, we understand that the decision to end support for a service or feature significantly impacts customers. We approach such decisions only after careful consideration. When end of support is necessary, we provide customers detailed guidance on available alternatives and comprehensive support for migration, ensuring minimal disruption to customer operations. We understand that changes […]
AWS – Announcing customer-initiated reboot migrations for EC2 Scheduled Events
AWS now enables automatic instance migration when you reboot after receiving EC2 scheduled reboot event notifications. This new capability of customer-initiated reboot migrations enables customers to action scheduled reboot event notifications by rebooting the instance at a time of their choosing which will then automatically migrate their instance to different hardware, eliminating the pending scheduled […]
AWS – AWS Organizations now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
AWS Organizations customers can now use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses, via our new dual-stack endpoints to connect to AWS Organizations over the public internet using IPv6, IPv4, or dual-stack clients. The existing AWS Organizations endpoints supporting IPv4 will remain available for backwards compatibility. To learn more on best practices for configuring IPv6 in […]
AWS – AWS Site-to-Site VPN Tunnel Endpoint Lifecycle Control is now available in AWS Mexico (Central) Region
AWS Site-to-Site VPN Tunnel Endpoint Lifecycle Control is now available in AWS Mexico (Central) Region, providing you with better visibility and control of your VPN tunnel maintenance updates. AWS Site-to-Site VPN is a fully-managed service that allows you to create a secure connection between your data center or branch office and your AWS resources using […]
GCP – Google Cloud and Spring AI 1.0
A big thank you to Fran Hinkelmann and Aaron Wanjala for their contributions and support in making this blog post happen. After a period of intense development, Spring AI 1.0 has officially landed, bringing a robust and comprehensive solution for AI engineering right to your Java ecosystem. This isn’t just another library; it’s a strategic […]
GCP – SAP & Google Cloud: Enabling faster value and smarter innovation for business excellence
SAP and Google Cloud are deepening their collaboration across data analytics, AI, security, and more to deliver what customers need most: faster paths to business value, lower risk on complex projects, and smart, enterprise-ready innovation that’s built to serve real workloads — not hypothetical use cases. At SAP Sapphire 2025, we are excited to highlight […]
GCP – Introducing the next generation of AI inference, powered by llm-d
As the world transitions from prototyping AI solutions to deploying AI at scale, efficient AI inference is becoming the gating factor. Two years ago, the challenge was the ever-growing size of AI models. Cloud infrastructure providers responded by supporting orders of magnitude more compute and data. Today, agentic AI workflows and reasoning models create highly […]
GCP – Managing GenAI with Chrome Enterprise
GenAI is transforming the way people think about their work and giving businesses of all sizes an opportunity to re-imagine everything from their internal processes to the way they engage with their customers. These new capabilities are evolving at a rapid pace, and that creates new challenges for IT and security teams to protect their […]