Cloud & Infrastructure

Vector search is a critical component of generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and data agent architectures, but sometimes vector search alone isn't enough. While vector embeddings are incredible at understanding conceptual meaning, they stumble on specific alphanumeric IDs and exact product SKU numbers. To build truly robust search and AI applications, you may need the combination of semantic vector…

Google Cloud Blog · 2026-09-18T16:30:00Z

AWS introduces new low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Granite Rapids), available only on AWS. T8i instances are among the lowest-cost EC2 instances and deliver up to 30% better price performance over previous generation T3 instances.

AWS Blog · 2026-09-17T21:11:48Z

AI is accelerating software development at an unprecedented pace. But as code generation scales, so do the challenges of securing the code, especially emerging AI-based vulnerability exploitations. To meet these challenges, the Google AI and Infrastructure team is transforming how we approach security. In this article, we discuss new AI-native agentic methods that we’ve developed that systematically embed…

Google Cloud Blog · 2026-09-18T16:00:00Z

Run an application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk Cluster Mode without provisioning or operating the compute underneath it. You provide a container image or source code; Elastic Beanstalk with service-operated compute creates and operates the environment that runs it.

AWS Blog · 2026-09-17T19:20:21Z

This week we kicked off the DevFest season in North America at Google Hudson Square in New York City with 80 engineers packed into the room. Typical technical workshops hand you a finished repo, tell you to blindly paste blocks of code into your terminal, and hope nothing crashes. You walk away with green checkmarks, but your brain stays on autopilot. We've introduced a completely different experience called…

Google Cloud Blog · 2026-09-18T16:00:00Z

AWS has reimagined the getting started experience with smart and sensible defaults to help developers get started fast so that they can focus on building. New customers can sign up and get started right away with $100 in Free Tier credits, managed project environments, and simplified team and resource permissions. If their workload evolves, customers can activate advanced features to access the full breadth and…

AWS Blog · 2026-09-16T17:50:14Z

Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Tip : Not sure where to find what you’re looking for on the Google Cloud blog? Start here: Google Cloud blog 101: Full list of topics, links, and resources . aside_block <ListValue: []> Sept 14 - Sept 18 Storage Intelligence…

Google Cloud Blog · 2026-09-18T16:00:00Z

There’s a particular energy to mid-September in New York. Pumpkin spice lattes are flowing, temperatures are dropping, and it’s nearly sweater weather. The city is back at full speed, and so is the AWS launch calendar. This week that energy showed up in a new frontier model on Amazon Bedrock, a desktop app for Amazon […]

AWS Blog · 2026-09-14T15:56:33Z

As enterprises invest in generative AI, tech leaders keep seeing the same pattern: Developers test AI tools for a week, hit setup problems, and then drift back to the backlog. Nothing ships. The real gap is enablement. In this landmark Harvard Business Review article , Josh Bersin and Marc Zao-Sanders noted that knowledge workers carve out just five minutes a day for formal learning. Most enterprise training…

Google Cloud Blog · 2026-09-18T16:00:00Z

AWS introduces Amazon EBS Volume Clones with cross-account copy, so you can create copies of your EBS volumes into other AWS accounts and optionally re-encrypt them with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key in the target account.

AWS Blog · 2026-09-09T22:01:47Z

Today, we are excited to announce enhancements to the borderless Lakehouse , our answer to how data engineers, data scientists, and increasingly, AI agents, can query governed data directly where it lives. To reason accurately and automate complex enterprise workflows, agents and data consumers of all types need fast, unified access to an organization's complete data estate, joining customer records, transaction…

Google Cloud Blog · 2026-09-18T16:00:00Z

Last week, Claude Fable 5.1 became available on AWS. According to Anthropic, Claude Fable 5.1 delivers frontier intelligence for ambitious tasks across coding, scientific research, and enterprise workflows. Claude Fable 5.1 is built for long-running, high-stakes work that runs for hours and spans many applications. It can own more of a software project on its […]

AWS Blog · 2026-09-07T14:24:08Z

State and local governments are driven by a shared mission to provide responsive, equitable, and accessible services. However, achieving this goal is often hindered by legacy technical debt, disconnected data, and heavy administrative burdens that slow down mission delivery. This systemic fragmentation creates costly operational bottlenecks across the public sector, including: Legacy data silos: Crucial caseworker…

Google Cloud Blog · 2026-09-18T16:00:00Z

Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 are now generally available, delivering up to 25% better compute performance than R8g, ideal for databases, in-memory caches, and real-time analytics.

AWS Blog · 2026-08-31T19:53:34Z

Operating large data pipelines requires an orchestration layer that scales smoothly as workloads expand. When your pipelines process millions of complex data points every day to feed predictive models, staying up-to-date with your technology stack is a strategic necessity. Pine59 provides location intelligence data through data pipelines that produce analytical metrics on cadences ranging from hourly to quarterly…

Google Cloud Blog · 2026-09-17T17:00:00Z

The news that interested me the most last week was the DuckLabs acquisition. AWS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB, the popular open source analytical database that runs in-process and executes SQL directly against files like Parquet, CSV, and JSON. DuckDB stays open source under its independent foundation […]

AWS Blog · 2026-08-31T14:45:25Z

At Google, we see firsthand how the speed, scale, and sophistication of cyber threats continue to challenge traditional enterprise defenses. Today’s defenders can’t rely on reactive triage or fragmented data feeds; you require high-fidelity intelligence, deep underground visibility, and actionable context to anticipate adversary moves before an attack unfolds. We are proud to announce that Forrester has named Google…

Google Cloud Blog · 2026-09-17T17:00:00Z

On the 20th Anniversary, we recognize how AWS has continued to push the boundaries of what cloud computing can deliver, building custom silicon for general-purpose and AI workloads and expanding EC2 into new form factors and deployment models that our customers in 2006 could not have imagined.

AWS Blog · 2026-08-25T16:11:02Z

Editor's note: Lucius AI, a tender-intelligence startup covering markets across five continents, runs its entire data platform on AlloyDB for PostgreSQL with a single operator. By migrating semantic search to a ScaNN index and managing database operations through Model Context Protocol (MCP), query latency dropped by 47x while automating day-to-day administrative tasks via MCP. Executive summary Lucius AI runs a…

Google Cloud Blog · 2026-09-17T16:00:00Z

During my time at AWS, I have always looked for opportunities to work with students. I have delivered over 50 talks at universities across the region, and watching the potential in the room is always a strong motivator. It reminds me of why I do this work, and that the students I meet today may […]

AWS Blog · 2026-08-24T16:20:15Z

September 14 - September 17 Managed Service for Apache Kafka supports clusters with public Internet access! With Managed Kafka public clusters , you can now produce and consume messages from clients outside your VPC—including your local machine, for faster, frictionless testing. Public clusters unlock use cases like IoT devices, retail storefronts, and telco network towers. Enable public access on new or existing…

Google Cloud Blog · 2026-09-17T16:00:00Z

AWS Glue 6.0 is built on a fully modernized runtime, Apache Spark 4.1, Python 3.13, and Scala 2.13, delivering 30% lower pricing than previous AWS Glue versions.

AWS Blog · 2026-08-21T18:53:26Z

As enterprise organizations scale mission-critical applications, storage I/O and memory access can become severe operational bottlenecks. Whether its Oracle databases, in-memory databases like SAP HANA, or high-throughput SQL Server clusters, EHR systems, and real-time big data analytics, memory-bound databases often force enterprises to over-provision compute cores (vCPUs) to get the RAM capacity and storage…

Google Cloud Blog · 2026-09-16T16:00:00Z

Editor’s note: Today we hear from SeaVerse , a gaming startup from SeaArt that is building a platform for playable AI experiences , where users can open lightweight games, character chats, and interactive apps, or create their own experiences from a prompt. To support that creative loop, SeaVerse needed infrastructure that could run dynamic, multi-tenant sandbox workloads with strong isolation, low latency, better…

Google Cloud Blog · 2026-09-16T16:00:00Z

At Orange , the leading France-based multinational telecom provider, there are days when engineering teams set aside their delivery backlogs and spend the day cleaning up cloud spend together. There's a leaderboard. There are goodies on the line. Experienced practitioners guide the newcomers, so people learn the work while doing it. By the end of the day, sponsors can see the results. Orange calls these FinOps Clean…

Google Cloud Blog · 2026-09-16T16:00:00Z

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2026. Today, Sandra Joyce shares the latest details on Google’s visibility into how attackers are using AI, and how we’re using AI to stop them. 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 you’d like to receive the email version, you can subscribe here…

Google Cloud Blog · 2026-09-16T16:00:00Z

Google Cloud session management provides flexible options for setting up session controls based on your organization’s security policy needs. To help you improve your security posture and mitigate credential theft and account takeover (ATO) risks, we have rolled out a 16-hour default session length for Google Cloud customers. We’ve now completed extending this security standard to all customers who had not already…

Google Cloud Blog · 2026-09-15T17:30:00Z

From running build tools, to data analysis pipelines, to collaborative research, executing data-driven tasks is essential for any enterprise agent. Today, platform teams often stitch together custom workarounds to address agent storage requirements, which could include shuttling state back and forth between agent sandboxes and centralized storage or manually managing local disks and/or self-hosted file systems…

Google Cloud Blog · 2026-09-15T16:00:00Z

Today, we are announcing the availability of Agent Substrate on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Agent Substrate is an open-source, secure-by-default agent execution runtime engineered to run millions of sandboxes with 10x higher density than standard container runtimes . Purpose-built for the era of autonomous agents, Substrate delivers sub-500ms resume operations at over 500 suspend/resume activations per second…

Google Cloud Blog · 2026-09-15T16:00:00Z

The telecommunications industry is currently undergoing a paradigm shift, moving from traditional manual human-driven operations to fully Autonomous Network Operations. Modern networks have grown increasingly complex, heterogeneous, and large-scale, making handcrafted rules-based methods and traditional Machine Learning (ML) approaches alone insufficient to automate network operations. While ML methods can identify…

Google Cloud Blog · 2026-09-15T16:00:00Z

Cloud outages can range from global service disruptions to issues isolated to a specific region, zone, or even just your project, workload or application. If you suspect a Google Cloud Platform outage is impacting your services, we recommend you follow a structured “Verify→ Investigate→Report→Resolve→Review" workflow to resolve it. And before that outage occurs, you should also have prepared your environment for an…

Google Cloud Blog · 2026-09-15T16:00:00Z

We are excited to share that Google Cloud was named a Leader and received the highest score in the ‘current offering’ category in the Forrester Wave™: Public Cloud Platforms, Q3 2026 report, which examines the 10 most significant public cloud providers across 30 comprehensive criteria, Google also received the highest possible score in 23 out of 30 evaluation criteria, including, but not limited to vision…

Google Cloud Blog · 2026-09-14T16:00:00Z

BigQuery now features a suite of augmented analytics Table-Valued Functions (TVFs) designed to automate complex data analysis at scale. Augmented analytics combines AI, ML and statistical methods to automate insight discovery and pattern explanation. These functions allow you to diagnose why metrics changed, uncover underlying trends and relationships across the data, and even isolate the true impact of business…

Google Cloud Blog · 2026-09-14T16:00:00Z

Overview As enterprises scale their AI and agentic workflows, they require serverless platforms that make data preparation for model training, evaluation, and inference effortless and efficient. Dataflow is a critical component of Google Cloud’s AI stack. It enables our customers to create batch and streaming pipelines that support a variety of analytics and AI use cases. Today, we’re delivering significant…

Google Cloud Blog · 2026-09-14T16:00:00Z