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AWS – Oracle Database@AWS now supports sharing of AWS Marketplace entitlements across accounts
Today, Oracle Database@AWS announced ability to share AWS Marketplace entitlements across accounts within an AWS Organization. With this feature, customers can now accept an Oracle Database@AWS AWS Marketplace offer in one AWS account, and share that entitlement with additional accounts in their AWS Organization. This allows customers to consume Oracle Database@AWS services from multiple AWS […]
AWS – Amazon GameLift Streams launches Gen6-based stream classes and enhanced autoscaling for better performance and pricing
Today, Amazon GameLift Streams launched two new capabilities to optimize performance and cost: Gen6 stream classes and enhanced autoscaling with warm buffer. The new Gen6 stream classes provide a wider range of price performance options, while autoscaling enables customers to dynamically manage capacity scaling. The seven new Gen6 stream classes available today are based on EC2 […]
AWS – Amazon GameLift Streams launches real-time performance stats and improved API error messaging
Today, Amazon GameLift Streams launched new powerful observability capabilities with session performance stats that provide real-time data for individual stream sessions, offering insights into application performance issues. Game developers requested deeper visibility into session performance and resource utilization. The new stats we’re delivering today help developers understand how their applications perform on specific stream classes […]
AWS – AWS Storage Gateway now supports Nutanix AHV hypervisor
The AWS Storage Gateway service now supports the Nutanix AHV hypervisor as a deployment option for S3 File, Tape and Volume gateways. If you use Nutanix AHV hypervisor-based on-premises infrastructure, you can now deploy Storage Gateway in your environment to access virtually unlimited cloud storage. Nutanix AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor) is a KVM-based virtualization platform that […]
AWS – Research and Engineering Studio on AWS Version 2025.12 now available
Today we announce Research and Engineering Studio (RES) on AWS version 2025.12, which introduces tag propagation for CloudFormation resources, enhanced Windows domain configuration options, default session scheduling, and security improvements. Research and Engineering Studio on AWS is an open source solution that provides a web-based portal for administrators to create and manage secure cloud-based research […]
AWS – Announcing AWS Neuron SDK 2.27.0
Today, AWS announces Neuron SDK 2.27.0, introducing support for Trainium3 UltraServer with expanded open source components. Neuron also introduces the Neuron Explorer tools suite, Enhanced NKI with open source NKI Compiler built on MLIR (private beta), the NKI Library of optimized kernels, native PyTorch support through TorchNeuron (private beta), and Neuron DRA for Kubernetes-native resource […]
AWS – AWS Wickr launches admin APIs for programmatic network management at scale
AWS Wickr now provides a suite of admin APIs that empower administrators to programmatically manage secure communication networks at scale. These APIs enable you to automate critical administrative workflows including user lifecycle management, network configuration, and security group administration. With user lifecycle management APIs, you can automatically create users and assign security groups when employees […]
GCP – The Year in Google Cloud — 2025
In the AI era, when one year can feel like 10, you’re forgiven for forgetting what happened last month, much less what happened all the way back in January. To jog your memory, we pulled the readership data for top product and company news of 2025. And because we publish a lot of great thought […]
GCP – New in Looker: self-service Explores, tabbed dashboards, and custom themes
Data teams seem to be constantly balancing the need for governed, trusted metrics with business needs for agility and ad-hoc analysis. To help bridge the gap between managed reporting and rapid data exploration, we are introducing several new features in Looker, to expand users’ self-service capabilities. These updates allow individuals to analyze local data alongside […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: 2025 in review: Cloud security basics and evolving AI
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for December 2025. Today, Google Cloud’s Nick Godfrey, senior director, and Anton Chuvakin, security advisor, look back at the year that was. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If you’re reading this on the website and […]