All news with #product launch tag

🚀 Google Cloud has integrated partner-built agents from its Agent Marketplace into the Agent Gallery inside the Gemini Enterprise app, creating a centrally governed hub for discovering and managing specialist, role-specific AI. Featured partners — including Accenture, Adobe, Atlassian, Palo Alto Networks, Salesforce and others — must pass a four-step evaluation to earn the Google Cloud Ready - Gemini Enterprise badge. Built-in safeguards such as cryptographic agent identities, Agent Gateway, and Model Armor protect data and prevent use for model training. Customers can trial the Gallery, while partners can apply to the AI Agents Program and access a rapid deployment framework.

🚀 Amazon has launched EC2 C8i-flex instances in Europe (Ireland, London) and Asia Pacific (New Zealand). Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, C8i-flex deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x the memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances, and up to 20% higher throughput than C7i-flex. AWS reports workload-specific gains — up to 60% faster NGINX, 40% for deep learning recommendation models, and 35% for Memcached — and offers sizes from large to 16xlarge purchasable via Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

⚡ Starting today, Amazon EC2 C8i instances are available in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (New Zealand). Powered by AWS-exclusive custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, C8i delivers up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x the memory bandwidth versus previous Intel-based instances, and up to 20% higher performance than C7i. AWS reports workload-specific gains — up to 60% faster for NGINX, 40% for deep learning recommendation models, and 35% for Memcached. The family includes 13 sizes (two bare metal and a new 96xlarge) and can be purchased via Savings Plans, On-Demand, or Spot.

🔬 Microsoft Discovery is an extensible platform that brings agentic orchestration, advanced reasoning, a graph-based knowledge foundation, and high-performance computing to enterprise R&D. It equips specialized agents to reason across proprietary data and external literature, generate hypotheses, and validate them through simulation and lab integrations under centralized governance. Built on Azure, the platform emphasizes security, compliance, partner interoperability, and enterprise-grade controls while remaining in preview.

🚀 Startups are accelerating agentic AI on Google Cloud, using an integrated AI stack—from models and specialized TPU/GPU compute to cross-cloud lakehouses and security—to move prototypes into production across healthcare, finance, gaming, and media. Companies like Lovable and OpenEvidence illustrate real-world adoption, while Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, NVIDIA GPU access via the AI Hypercomputer, and Marketplace integrations aim to reduce procurement friction and speed commercialization. Google also announced a $750M partner fund and developer programs to support startups.

🚀 Gemini Enterprise is an end-to-end system for the agentic era, combining access to frontier models, a developer platform, a collaborative app, and a partner ecosystem to build and deploy agent fleets. The offering centers on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform — an evolution of Vertex AI — with an enhanced Agent Development Kit (ADK), graph-based orchestration, persistent Memory Bank, and fast Agent Runtime for multi-step work. IT teams gain a unified control plane for identity, governance, Model Armor, and auditing, while knowledge workers use a no-code Agent Designer, Inbox, Projects, and Canvas to create and monitor agents.

🚀 Azure Accelerate for Databases is a Microsoft program that helps organizations modernize database estates to become AI-ready. It bundles a Savings Plan (up to 35% vs. pay-as-you-go), delivery funding, Azure credits, zero-cost Cloud Accelerate Factory support, partner services, AI-enhanced assessments, and role-based skilling. The offering aims to reduce friction and speed migrations at scale. Microsoft highlights Thomson Reuters’ migration of over 18,000 databases as a customer example.

🔧 Amazon SageMaker AI now provides inference recommendations that automate optimization and benchmarking to deliver validated, deployment-ready configurations. Customers supply their own generative models, define expected traffic patterns, and set a performance objective — optimize for cost, minimize latency, or maximize throughput. SageMaker analyzes model architecture, benchmarks across multiple instance types using NVIDIA AIPerf, and returns metrics such as time to first token, inter-token latency, request latency percentiles, throughput, and cost projections. The capability is available today in seven AWS Regions.

🔔 AWS has added five new Qwen foundation models to SageMaker JumpStart, including Qwen3-Coder-Next, Qwen3-30B-A3B, Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507, Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct, and Qwen3.5-4B. The models support agentic coding, extended reasoning, multimodal and multilingual workloads, and lightweight deployments. Customers can deploy them from SageMaker Studio or via the SageMaker Python SDK to accelerate development of coding agents and multimodal applications.

🚀 Google Public Sector is launching coordinated initiatives to help partners build, certify, and bring AI solutions to government customers faster. The program includes a federal startup accelerator in collaboration with NVIDIA for AI-focused ISVs, an expanded ISV ATO Accelerator offering up to $1M in funding, and a new Distributor Channel Private Offer with Carahsoft. These efforts target procurement, compliance, and legacy environment barriers to speed deployment of mission-critical AI.

▶️Google Cloud will host Next '26 developer livestreams — daily broadcasts from the show floor that deconstruct major announcements into hands-on demos, reproducible steps, and immediate developer workflows. Viewers can expect real-time coding, interviews with builders and community leaders, focused security and platform deep dives, and surprise guests. Streams air April 22–23 (times PT) across Google Cloud Tech channels, with replays available. Join the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program for curated post-event resources.

🚀 Builders Hub within the Google Developer Program centralizes developer tooling, projects, and learning into a single workbench to reduce friction and accelerate onboarding. It provides a unified project dashboard across Google Cloud, Firebase, and AI Studio, plus personalized learning paths and interest-based recommendations. Integrated codelabs with built-in credits let developers run real environments immediately, while digital badges and community discovery features support professional growth and networking.

🚀 AWS has made the AWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for Java generally available, giving Java developers native tools to author resilient, long-running workflows using Lambda durable functions. The SDK automates checkpointing, supports waits of up to a year for external events, and provides durable invocation, callback integration for human/agent-in-the-loop flows, and a local testing emulator. Compatible with Java 17+, it can be deployed on Lambda managed runtimes or container images.

🔍 The new CrowdStrike Shadow AI Visibility Service delivers telemetry-based discovery of sanctioned and unsanctioned AI across endpoint, cloud and SaaS environments. Delivered by CrowdStrike experts and powered by the Falcon platform, it produces a comprehensive AI inventory and runtime evidence such as prompts, responses and agent activity. The service identifies visibility gaps, prioritizes findings and provides actionable remediation guidance to reduce exposure. It positions discovery as the foundational phase before adversarial testing and continuous frontier AI readiness scanning.

🚀 AWS has launched EC2 High Memory U7i instances — u7i-8tb.112xlarge and u7i-12tb.224xlarge — in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region. These 7th-generation instances use custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors and provide 8TiB or 12TiB of DDR5 memory with 448 and 896 vCPUs respectively. They support up to 100 Gbps for Amazon EBS and network bandwidth and include ENA Express, targeting mission-critical in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

🖥️ Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Amazon WorkSpaces Core are now available in US East (Ohio) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia), allowing organizations to provision virtual desktops closer to users for improved responsiveness and potential in‑country data residency. In Ohio, the availability also supports disaster recovery implementations and regional compliance requirements. Administrators can begin by selecting the new Regions in the WorkSpaces management console.

🚀 The BigQuery Studio notebook gallery is now generally available, providing a curated collection of pre-built templates that help teams skip setup and start analysis faster. The gallery supports SQL, Python, and Spark workflows and includes templates for generative AI, ML development, and data pipelines. Templates demonstrate best practices for BigQuery DataFrames, serverless Spark, and multimodal analysis. Users can preview templates in read-only mode and add copies directly into their projects from the BigQuery Studio console.

🚀 AWS announced general availability of Amazon EC2 C8in and C8ib instances powered by custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the latest AWS Nitro cards. These instances deliver up to 43% higher performance versus the prior C6in generation and scale up to 384 vCPUs. C8in provides up to 600 Gbps networking for network-intensive workloads, while C8ib offers up to 300 Gbps EBS bandwidth for high-performance databases and file systems. Both families are available in select regions and via On-Demand, Savings Plans, and Spot.

🚀 Cloudflare announced a unified AI inference platform that lets developers call models from multiple providers through one API and a single billing plane. Using the same AI.run() binding for Workers, teams can switch providers with a one-line change; REST support is coming for other environments. The update adds default gateways, automatic retries, finer logging, and centralized cost monitoring to reduce latency, improve reliability, and control costs for agentic workflows.

🎬 At NAB Show 2026, Google Cloud presents an agentic media platform that embeds AI across production, distribution, and monetization. Partners such as Avid (Content Core), Backlight (Iconik), and Brahma.ai showcase cloud-native tools that add searchable metadata, AI-driven editing assistants, and secure digital likenesses. The ecosystem also highlights Bitmovin, VionLabs, and Zixi to optimize delivery, discovery, and broadcast reliability.