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GCP – What’s new with Google Cloud networking
The AI era is here, fundamentally reshaping industries and demanding unprecedented network capabilities for training, inference and serving AI models. To power this transformation, organizations need global networking solutions that can handle massive capacity, seamless connectivity, and provide robust security. At Next 25, we’re addressing these critical needs and enabling customers to build and deliver […]
GCP – Delivering an application-centric, AI-powered cloud for developers and operators
Today we’re unveiling new AI capabilities to help cloud developers and operators at every step of the application lifecycle. We are doing this by: Putting applications at the center of your cloud experience, abstracting away the infrastructure complexities of the traditional cloud model. Now you can design, observe, secure, and optimize at the application level, […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now available in AWS Europe (Spain) Region
Starting today, customers can use Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion in Europe(Spain) region for ingesting data into their Amazon OpenSearch Service managed clusters or serverless collections. Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is a fully managed data ingestion tier that allows you to ingest and process data before indexing it in Amazon OpenSearch managed clusters or serverless collections. Amazon OpenSearch […]
GCP – Presenting our 2025 Google Cloud Partners of the Year
It’s an honor to announce the 2025 Google Cloud Partner of the Year winners! It takes a lot to build great AI and cloud technology. Advancements and innovation come from collaboration, and Google Cloud has thousands of partners to make this happen. Among these, we’re excited to recognize dozens who take our work to the […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C6in instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Osaka). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, for 2x more network bandwidth over comparable fifth-generation instances. Customers can […]
AWS – Meta’s Llama 4 now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
The first models in the new Llama 4 herd of models—Llama 4 Scout 17B and Llama 4 Maverick 17B—are now available on AWS. You can access Llama 4 models in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. These advanced multimodal models empower you to build more tailored applications that respond to multiple types of media. Llama 4 offers improved […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Tables are now available in four additional AWS Regions
Amazon S3 Tables are now available in four additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Paris), Europe (Spain), and US West (N. California). S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support, and the easiest way to store tabular data at scale. With this expansion, S3 Tables are now generally available […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock now offers Pixtral Large 25.02, a multimodal model from Mistral AI
AWS announces the availability of Pixtral Large 25.02 in Amazon Bedrock, a 124B parameter model with multimodal capabilities that combines state-of-the-art image understanding with powerful text processing. AWS is the first cloud provider to deliver Pixtral Large 25.02 as a fully managed, serverless model. This model delivers frontier-class performance across document analysis, chart interpretation, and natural image […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon Nova Sonic, a new speech-to-speech model that brings real-time voice conversations to Amazon Bedrock
Today, Amazon introduces Amazon Nova Sonic, a new foundation model that unifies speech understanding and generation into a single model, to enable human-like voice conversations in artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Amazon Nova Sonic enables developers to build real-time conversational AI applications in Amazon Bedrock, with industry-leading price performance and low latency. It can understand speech […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M8g instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 M8g instances are built for general-purpose workloads, such as application […]