Whether you’re launching microservices in response to sudden traffic spikes, deploying new software releases, or scaling up application replicas, pod startup time is critical to maintaining a fast, responsive user experience for applications running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Yet, platform e

AI agents don't just answer queries — they can autonomously issue refunds, manage inventory, execute multi-step handoffs, and orchestrate sub-agents, to name but a few complex agentic workflows. That frequently requires the agents to maintain internal state in an operational database while dispatchi

At Google Cloud, we know that you count on us to maintain the durability and integrity of your data at all times, both at rest and in transit. And now we’re making it easier for developers to take advantage of native data integrity features in Cloud Storage, by enabling end-to-end checksumming by de

Introducing the public preview of AWS Well-Architected Agent, an AI-powered service that analyzes your AWS environment to deliver targeted, contextual recommendations for improving your applications' cost, security, performance, and resilience—with ready-to-implement fixes aligned to your business g

For years, Swift was perceived mainly as a UI language tied to Apple client devices. With the release of Swift 6 and strict concurrency checking, Swift has matured into a premier systems with cloud engineering language that matches Go and Rust in memory safety while running with predictable, referen

This is the first of a two-part series exploring how Google Cloud is bringing the foundational values of a high-performance parallel filesystem–TB/s throughput, sub-ms latency at high client scale, and POSIX support–to a broader set of use cases and users. Historically, due to the cost and special p

Korean AI cloud startups are raising hundreds of billions of won as GPU scarcity becomes a competitive advantage, while AMD's CEO returns to deepen ties with domestic chip developers. Korean AI cloud startups Mondrian AI and Vessl AI are both raising capital well above original targets, with Vessl e

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now lets you directly query Apache Iceberg and Parquet data stored in your data lake alongside live operational data—no ETL pipelines required. Powered by DuckDB embedded within Aurora, this capability enables single queries that join transactional and historical data using

We hereby declare September to be scalability month! As the world prepares for a surge of agentic fleets, we are shoring up our AI infrastructure and orchestration offerings to gracefully — and quickly — respond to that demand, all while maintaining workload isolation and security, and keeping costs

Spanner Omni, the deploy-anywhere version of Spanner, is now generally available, ready to power your most demanding production workloads in your on-premises data center or on other clouds. With Spanner, Google pioneered the distributed SQL market over a decade ago, combining the horizontal scalabil

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2026. Today, Alicja Cade and Nick Godfrey, senior directors, Office of the CISO, share their guidance for cybersecurity startups on how to win over the CISOs who will become crucial business partners and customers. As with all Cloud CISO Pe

Today, we’re excited to introduce the newest members of the AWS Heroes program. AWS Heroes are a vibrant, worldwide group of AWS experts who go above and beyond to share knowledge, mentor others, and build thriving communities. These individuals make a real difference in helping developers and organ

Today, Google Cloud Data Agent Kit is generally available. Data Agent Kit is a free set of Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools and agent skills that lets the coding agent you already use work directly with your Google Cloud data products, whether you're using Antigravity, Claude Code, Codex, or other

Today, we’re expanding our ecosystem of managed remote MCP servers by introducing the Google Cloud CLI remote MCP server in preview. Powered by the popular gcloud and bq (BigQuery) command-line tools, this new server gives AI agents immediate, broad access to command-line operations for managing Goo

When scaling up agentic reinforcement learning (RL) and evaluation across massive parallel rollouts, frontier AI labs inevitably hit a bottleneck: Expensive GPU clusters sit idle, waiting minutes for CPU sandbox cold-starts, plus thousands of multi-gigabyte SWE-bench-style image pulls and scheduling

As threat actors increasingly use AI to accelerate and develop cyberattacks, enterprise defenders need to rely on both AI and a critical defender’s advantage: Business context that only you possess. Enterprise cyber defense spans identity, network, endpoint, data, cloud, and application layers, ofte

If there’s one theme that defined last week, it’s choice. The frontier models keep arriving, and the interesting question is no longer just “how smart is it?” but “which model fits this step, at this cost, at this latency?” That’s exactly what landed on Amazon Bedrock over the past few days: GPT-6 S

Reinforcement learning (RL) has been a keystone of modern LLM post-training, but it demands large training clusters and access to model internals that external customers can't have with proprietary models like Gemini. So here at Google Cloud, we packaged it into a managed RL fine-tuning service (RLF

At Google Cloud, we are committed to delivering the best managed experience backed by open source software. Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Memorystore for Valkey 9.1, which achieves up to 3x queries per second (QPS) at microsecond latency compared to Memorystore for Redis Cluste

In this episode of The Agent Factory, we explore the reality of building with autonomous agents alongside Ryan Lopopolo, a software engineer at Google Cloud and the person who coined the term agent harness. From throwing out manual code editors to treating team collaboration like leveling up RPG sta

Amazon EventBridge announces an enhanced custom event bus for organizations scaling event-driven applications across teams and accounts. Deploy a single event bus shared across all AWS accounts in your organization, with ordering guarantees, a simplified Subscriber resource, and improved economics a

We’re excited and proud to share that Gartner has recognized Google as a Leader for the fourth year in a row in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management, based on its Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. Google was positioned highest in Ability to Execute of all vendors e

Enterprises rely on mission-critical operational databases where performance slowdowns simply aren’t an option. Yet when even a few agents execute dense reasoning loops, the unpredictable surge in queries can easily overwhelm traditional architectures. Today, we’re announcing that AlloyDB delivers P