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AKS Looks to Make Node Disruption More Predictable with New NAP Guidance

Microsoft is placing greater emphasis on controlling disruption in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Node Auto-Provisioning (NAP), publishing new guidance to help platform teams balance the efficiency benefits of automated node consolidation with application availability. By Craig Risi

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Why enterprise AI projects keep failing

Over the past three years, as an independent cloud and AI consultant, advisor, and industry influencer, I have worked with numerous compani…

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Deploy personal AI agents with Cloud Run instances

Need a low-cost, high-performance way to run long-lived, stateful workloads such as AI agents? Today, we introduced Cloud Run instances, wh…

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Reimagining work: How Pythian’s internal AI playbook delivers customer ROI

When Pythian rolled out Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise across our 500-person company in 27 countries, the goal was simple: use our own co…

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AWS acquires DuckLabs, but what does it want from the team behind DuckDB?

Open-source software has given cloud providers a way to adopt popular technologies without having to own the companies behind them. AWS, ho…

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Why every country wants a data center — and most will lose

Every decade or so, a new form of infrastructure becomes the thing that separates economies that compound from economies that stagnate. In …

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20 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

Organizations continue to invest heavily in the cloud, with IT leaders reporting that 26% of their IT budget will be allocated to cloud com…

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AWS Introduces Specification Driven Composition for Flexible Data Workflows

AWS describes a specification-driven approach for composing flexible data workflows by separating intent from processing logic. Architectur…

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AI Can Generate Your Infrastructure. Can Your CI/CD Pipeline Trust It?

AI-generated infrastructure code is exposing a growing security gap, pushing platform teams to add stronger automated gates, provenance tra…

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Your AI Coding Budget Is Becoming a Variable Cloud Bill

AI coding assistants are becoming a variable, usage-based engineering cost, forcing platform and DevOps teams to apply FinOps practices to …

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Happy 20th Birthday, Amazon EC2

On the 20th Anniversary, we recognize how AWS has continued to push the boundaries of what cloud computing can deliver, building custom sil…

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Bringing gVisor sandboxes to distributed Ray clusters

The reinforcement learning (RL) ecosystem is rapidly adopting Ray as the unified compute runtime for complex post-training workflows. Acros…

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AI demand meets grid capacity

For the past 15 years, the default assumption about cloud computing has been simple: When enterprises needed more capacity, cloud providers…

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AI data center spending drives growth in semiconductor market

CIOs are contending with rising compute costs, looking to cheaper models to rein in spending amid rapid infrastructure expansion.

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Student Rewards on AWS Builder Center, Local Zone in Las Vegas, and more (August 24, 2026)

During my time at AWS, I have always looked for opportunities to work with students. I have delivered over 50 talks at universities across …

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AWS Releases Aws-Bench to Evaluate Agents on Cloud Tasks

AWS has released aws-bench, an open-source benchmark for evaluating AI agents on real AWS tasks such as misconfigurations and infrastructur…

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AWS Glue 6.0 now available with 30% lower price and full Apache Iceberg v3 support

AWS Glue 6.0 is built on a fully modernized runtime, Apache Spark 4.1, Python 3.12, and Scala 2.13, delivering 30% lower pricing than previ…

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Cloud CISO Perspectives: Sticking to security fundamentals in the AI era

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2026. Today, Chris Betz explains why the AI era makes it more important than ever t…

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What’s new with Google Cloud

Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, …

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Neoclouds become AI’s new power brokers

The reported $10 billion deal between Anthropic and AI cloud startup Volta is more than just another big-number headline in the AI infrastr…

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Announcing quantum-safe key import in Cloud KMS

As enterprises increasingly adopt multicloud architectures, bring your own key (BYOK) has become a fundamental pillar for maintaining data …

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Google is a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms

We are thrilled to announce that Google has been recognized as a Leader for the third year in a row in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ fo…

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Kubernetes at the edge has hit a wall. Fleet management is the way through.

Not too long ago, edge computing was seen as a niche use case, limited to telcos, manufacturing plants, and large The post Kubernetes at th…

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AI productivity gains aren’t translating to IT workload relief

Despite saving hours weekly, most IT professionals report unchanged or increased workloads, according to a SolarWinds survey.

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How to modernize Apache Hive using Google Cloud’s Lakehouse runtime catalog

For over a decade, the Apache Hive Metastore (HMS) has served as the de facto metadata authority for big data analytics. Whether it was dep…

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Serverless Apache Spark on Google Cloud: Architecture Choices & AI Troubleshooting

In modern enterprise data engineering, Apache Spark remains a cornerstone framework for processing massive datasets at scale. However, mana…

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In the works: AWS Builder Lofts in Berlin, Hyderabad, and São Paulo

Each location will be a permanent community space to offer free workshops, networking events, pitch nights, content creation spaces, collab…

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AWS Weekly Roundup: EC2 application status checks, IAM role manager, OpenAI Daybreak on Bedrock, and more (August 17, 2026)

Last week, AWS contributors joined the OpenSearch and Valkey communities at Open Source Summit Korea 2026 and MCP DevSummit Seoul 2026 to m…

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Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms 

Cloud-native platforms are becoming the foundation for AI transformation. Discover how Microsoft's Azure application platform helps organiz…

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Alibaba abre 2 data centers no Brasil para desafiar Microsoft, Google e AWS em IA

A Alibaba Cloud lançou nesta quinta-feira (27) sua primeira região de nuvem no Brasil, com dois novos data centers dedicados a empresas, st…

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