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Google Gen AI .NET SDK Brings Gemini to C#/.NET Developers

🚀 Google has released the Google Gen AI .NET SDK, bringing unified access to Gemini on Google AI and Vertex AI for C#/.NET developers. The SDK is available via NuGet (dotnet add package Google.GenAI) and supports client creation with an API key or with project/location settings for Vertex AI. Examples demonstrate unary and streaming text generation, image generation, and configurable response schemas and generation settings. Google provides the API reference, GitHub source (googleapis/dotnet-genai) and a DemoApp with samples to help developers get started.

Cross-Cloud VPC Peering with NVAs and Regional Affinity

🌐 This blog presents a reference architecture for deploying Network Virtual Appliances (NVAs) in a regional hub-and-spoke design using VPC Network Peering. It explains how Google’s Cross-Cloud Network and software-defined global backbone support any-to-any connectivity while preserving regional affinity for latency and data residency. The post details traffic flows and key services such as Cloud Interconnect, HA VPN, Internal Passthrough Network Load Balancers, policy-based routes, and Private Service Connect to integrate managed services and workload VPCs.

AWS RTB Fabric Generally Available for Low-Latency AdTech

🚀 AWS today announced RTB Fabric, a fully managed service that connects publishers and buyers with AdTech partners such as Amazon Ads, GumGum, Kargo, MobileFuse, Sovrn, TripleLift, Viant, and Yieldmo over a private, high‑performance network delivering single‑digit millisecond latency. The service can reduce standard cloud networking costs by up to 80% and requires no upfront commitments. Built-in modules support containerized applications and foundation models and run inline to optimize traffic, improve bid efficiency, and increase bid response rates.

Hugging Face and VirusTotal: Integrating Security Insights

🔒 VirusTotal and Hugging Face have announced a collaboration to surface security insights directly within the Hugging Face platform. When browsing model files, datasets, or related artifacts, users will now see multi‑scanner results including VirusTotal detections and links to public reports so potential risks can be reviewed before downloading. VirusTotal is also enhancing its analysis portfolio with AI-driven tools such as Code Insight and format‑aware scanners (picklescan, safepickle, ModelScan) to highlight unsafe deserialization flows and other risky patterns. The integration aims to increase visibility across the AI supply chain and help researchers, developers, and defenders build more secure models and workflows.

Amazon EC2 I8g Storage-Optimized Instances Expand Regions

💾 Amazon Web Services has made Amazon EC2 I8g storage-optimized instances generally available in Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and third-generation Nitro SSDs, I8g delivers up to 60% better compute performance and up to 65% improved real-time storage performance per TB versus the previous generation. These instances offer up to 45 TB of local NVMe storage, up to 100 Gbps networking, and are aimed at transactional databases, real-time analytics, and I/O-intensive AI pre-processing workloads.

Amazon Connect adds threaded email views and history

📧 Amazon Connect now includes threaded email views and appends conversation history to agent replies, helping agents and customers preserve context and continuity across exchanges. The update provides a familiar, mail-like threading model and surfaces prior messages inline within Amazon Connect Email, making follow-ups and issue resolution faster. The capability is available in multiple AWS regions and streamlines agent workflows.

Choosing the Right AWS Service for Secrets and Configs

🔐 AWS outlines when to use Secrets Manager, Systems Manager Parameter Store, and AWS AppConfig to manage credentials, configuration values, and feature flags. The guidance recommends Secrets Manager for sensitive credentials that need rotation and multi‑Region replication, Parameter Store for simple or high‑volume key/value data, and AppConfig for validated, controlled deployments. The post compares encryption, access controls, replication, monitoring, and pricing to help architects select the best fit.

AWS Launches Second Secret Region: AWS Secret-West

🔒 AWS announced the launch of AWS Secret-West, its second Secret U.S. region for handling mission-critical workloads at the Secret classification. The region offers multiple Availability Zones, an ICD-accredited security architecture, and authorized services under ICD 503 and DoD SRG IL6. It provides lower latency for western U.S. operations, multi-region resiliency, and geographic separation to support government mission requirements.

Google Cloud H4D VMs Boost Finance Workload Performance

⚡ Google Cloud announced the H4D VM family (Preview), powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (Turin), aimed at delivering extreme performance for financial services workloads. The H4D series targets latency-sensitive use cases such as high-frequency trading, Monte Carlo risk simulations, backtesting, and derivatives pricing by offering faster core-to-core communication, larger memory capacity, and improved network throughput. AMD benchmarking with the open-source KX Nano test reported an average ~34% out-of-the-box performance gain over prior C3D VMs, with per-core and multi-threaded uplifts around 1.33–1.36x. Google Cloud will demonstrate H4D and complementary HPC solutions at STAC Summit NYC on October 28th and will have experts available to discuss performance, security, and compliance.

Amazon CloudWatch adds interactive incident reporting

📝 Amazon CloudWatch now offers interactive incident report generation, enabling customers to produce comprehensive post-incident analysis in minutes. The capability, available within CloudWatch investigations, automatically gathers and correlates telemetry data, user inputs, and investigation actions to produce streamlined reports. Reports include executive summaries, timelines, impact assessments, and actionable recommendations to help teams identify patterns and implement preventive measures. The feature is available in multiple AWS regions.

Amazon U7i High Memory Instances Reach US East (Ohio)

🚀 Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances (u7i-6tb.112xlarge) are now available in the AWS US East (Ohio) Region. These 7th-generation instances deliver 6TB of DDR5 memory and 448 vCPUs powered by custom 4th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids). They support up to 100 Gbps for EBS throughput and networking, include ENA Express, and are designed for mission-critical in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

Microsoft Named a Leader in Gartner MQ for DHI 2025

🔹 Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure, its third consecutive recognition. Azure’s adaptive approach—anchored by Azure Arc and Azure Local—delivers unified management, governance, and security across hybrid, edge, multicloud, and sovereign environments. These technologies enable services such as AKS, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, IoT operations and AI workloads, and Microsoft highlights customer outcomes and continued investment to broaden capabilities and compliance.

Model Armor and Apigee: Protecting Generative AI Apps

🔒 Google Cloud’s Model Armor integrates with Apigee to screen prompts, responses, and agent interactions, helping organizations mitigate prompt injection, jailbreaks, sensitive data exposure, malicious links, and harmful content. The model‑agnostic, cloud‑agnostic service supports REST APIs and inline integrations with Apigee, Vertex AI, Agentspace, and network service extensions. The article provides step‑by‑step setup: enable the API, create templates, assign service account roles, add SanitizeUserPrompt and SanitizeModelResponse policies to Apigee proxies, and review findings in the AI Protection dashboard.

Meta launches new anti-scam tools for WhatsApp, Messenger

🛡️ Meta is rolling out new anti-scam features for Messenger and WhatsApp to help users detect and avoid fraud. Messenger testing includes AI-assisted scam detection that warns about suspicious new contacts and offers options to block, report, or submit messages for review. WhatsApp will display warnings about screen-sharing with unknown callers. These protections are enabled by default.

Amazon EKS Auto Mode Adds FIPS Support in GovCloud

🔐 Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Auto Mode is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West), automating compute, storage, and networking management for Kubernetes clusters. Its AMIs include FIPS-validated cryptographic modules to help meet FedRAMP-style requirements. EKS Auto Mode handles OS patching, leverages ephemeral compute to reduce persistent attack surface, and dynamically scales EC2 instances to optimize costs while maintaining availability; it supports clusters running Kubernetes 1.29 and later with no upfront fees.

Amazon S3 Generates CloudTrail Events for Table Maintenance

🔔Amazon S3 now emits AWS CloudTrail events for S3 Tables maintenance operations so you can track compaction and snapshot expiration. Maintenance activities are recorded as management events in CloudTrail, enabling auditing and monitoring of automatic optimization tasks. To monitor these events, create a trail and filter for eventType='AwsServiceEvents' and eventName='TablesMaintenanceEvent'. Events are available in all Regions where S3 Tables are offered.

Amazon CloudWatch Agent Gains Windows Event Log Filtering

🔎 Amazon CloudWatch Agent now supports configurable Windows Event Log filters for Windows hosts running on Amazon EC2 or on‑premises. You can define per-stream filter criteria in the agent configuration file — including event levels, specific event IDs, and regular expressions set to include or exclude — and the agent evaluates each event to determine whether it should be sent to CloudWatch. This reduces noisy ingestion and helps focus monitoring, troubleshooting, and cost control; the feature is available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US).

Amazon DCV 2025.0 Adds WebAuthn, ARM, and Keyboard Support

🔒 Amazon DCV 2025.0 is the latest release of the high-performance remote display protocol, delivering enhanced security and productivity for virtual desktop and application sessions. The update adds WebAuthn redirection on Windows and browser-based WebAuthn on Linux to enable security-key authentication in native and SaaS apps, plus server-side keyboard layout handling and alignment for Windows clients to improve input consistency. Other improvements include Linux client support for ARM, Windows Server 2025 host compatibility, and scroll wheel optimizations for smoother navigation. See AWS documentation and the DCV product page for full release notes.

CloudWatch Synthetics: Bundled Multi-Check Canaries

🔧 Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now offers bundled multi-check blueprints that let teams define comprehensive synthetic tests using a single JSON configuration file. A single canary can include up to 10 steps covering HTTP (with varied authentication), DNS, SSL certificate checks and TCP ports, and supports complex assertions on status, latency, headers and response body. Integration with AWS Secrets Manager secures credentials, while step-by-step results and console debugging simplify implementation compared with writing multiple custom canaries.

Amazon Redshift Auto-Copy Expands to Four AWS Regions

📥 Amazon Redshift Auto-Copy is now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Mexico (Central), and Asia Pacific (Taipei). The feature lets you configure an integration to continuously detect and load new files from a specified Amazon S3 prefix into Redshift tables without requiring custom COPY pipelines or external tooling. Auto-Copy records previously loaded files to prevent duplicate ingestion and exposes job status and metrics via Redshift system tables for monitoring and troubleshooting.