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GCP – Gemini momentum continues with launch of 2.5 Flash-Lite and general availability of 2.5 Flash and Pro on Vertex AI
The momentum of the Gemini 2.5 era continues to build. Following our recent announcements, we’re empowering enterprise builders and developers with even greater access to the intelligence, and flexibility of our most capable models yet, directly within Vertex AI, our unified platform for enterprise-scale AI development. The significant updates announced today are designed to help […]
GCP – Graduating the Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First in Europe & Israel
Today, we’re incredibly proud to announce the graduation of the latest cohort from the Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First from Europe & Israel! This milestone marks the culmination of an intensive three-months journey for these 14 innovative startups, who’ve dedicated themselves to growing their businesses and pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence. The hybrid […]
GCP – Spanner’s enduring impact: Celebrating the 2025 ACM SIGMOD Systems Award
Earlier this year, the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD) announced that Spanner, Google’s globally distributed database, was awarded the 2025 SIGMOD Systems Award. The SIGMOD Systems Award specifically honors systems whose technical contributions have profoundly impacted the theory or practice of large-scale data management. On behalf of […]
GCP – GKE workload scheduling: Strategies for when resources get tight
As a customer of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), you’ve selected a container runtime with a high degree of managed operations, encompassing everything from automatic upgrades to effortless node management. This inherent efficiency allows you to focus more on your applications, and less on the underlying infrastructure. In an ideal world, this streamlined experience, coupled with […]
AWS – Introducing AWS Security Hub for risk prioritization and response at scale (Preview)
AWS announces an enhanced AWS Security Hub to prioritize your critical security issues and help respond at scale to reduce security risks, improve your team’s productivity, and protect your cloud environment. It detects critical issues by correlating and enriching security signals, for example, from threat detection and vulnerability management. This enables you to quickly surface […]
AWS – AWS Shield introduces network security director (preview)
Today, AWS Shield announces the preview of network security director, a new capability that provides visibility into the AWS resources in your network, identifies missing or misconfigured network security services, and recommends remediation steps. As threats continue to evolve, AWS Shield has expanded its capabilities beyond DDoS protection to help you easily identify resources requiring […]
AWS – Introducing the reimagined AWS MSSP Competency
Introducing the updated AWS MSSP Competency (previously AWS Level 1 MSSP Competency) for partners with turn-key security solutions that transform how organizations approach cloud security. The update includes new categories to validate Partners’ security expertise in specific domains including Infrastructure Security, Workload Security, Application Security, Data Protection, Identity & Access Management, Incident Response, and Cyber […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall launches support for active threat defense
AWS Network Firewall now offers active threat defense, a new security feature that helps you protect your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) workloads against threat activities observed across AWS global infrastructure using Amazon threat intelligence. AWS Network Firewall with active threat defense provides automated, intelligence-driven protection against dynamic, ongoing threat activities observed across AWS infrastructure. […]
AWS – Amazon CloudFront streamlines CDN setup with smart defaults and automation
Amazon CloudFront introduces a new console experience that simplifies the delivery of secure, high-performance applications to users on the internet. Setting up a content delivery network (CDN) traditionally required deep expertise in CDN configurations, domain management, and security best practices. The new CloudFront console experience streamlines this entire process with a unified approach to content […]
AWS – AWS Certificate Manager introduces public certificates you can use anywhere
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) announces exportable public certificates that you can use on any workload that requires a public TLS certificate, whether within AWS or outside. With this release, you can issue public certificates that you can export and access the certificate’s private key to securely terminate TLS traffic on any compute workload. This includes […]