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AWS Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances with Graviton5 processors are GA
Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are now generally available. These new instances offer up to 25% better compute performance than previous generations and are designed for general-purpose and agentic AI workloads. They are available in select regions and purchasing options, with M9gd instances providing high-speed local NVMe storage for specific use cases like media processing.
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.21 Released
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.21 is now generally available, bringing enhancements to deployment efficiency, monitoring, code security, and policy management. Key updates include the general availability of organization custom properties and hierarchy view for GitHub Projects, alongside a new REST API version with breaking changes. These updates benefit enterprise administrators and developers by improving metadata tagging, project visualization, and workflow management.
AWS OpenAI GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5 models now on Amazon Bedrock
AWS has expanded the availability of OpenAI's GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5 models to the US East (N. Virginia) Region on Amazon Bedrock. These models offer advanced reasoning, coding, and agentic task capabilities for building generative AI applications. GPT-5.5 is OpenAI's most capable model for complex tasks, while GPT-5.4 supports frontier reasoning and long-context workflows. Both support a 272K-token context window with text and image inputs and are available via the Responses API.
Snowflake Enhances AI Data Engineering with New Pipeline Capabilities
Snowflake has introduced new AI-powered features for data engineering, aiming to make pipeline creation more robust and efficient. These capabilities integrate AI directly into workflows, offering agentic assistance, autonomous pipelines, and improved declarative options for SQL and Python developers. The updates focus on reducing manual effort, accelerating time-to-production, and enhancing governance for all data engineers working within or across lakehouses and Snowflake.
GCP Gemini Enterprise mobile app now GA for Google Identity users
The Gemini Enterprise mobile app is now generally available for organizations using Google Identity, enabling users to access agents, search enterprise data, and use voice features on iOS and Android. Administrators can facilitate user access by displaying a configuration QR code on the web app homepage. For organizations using Microsoft Entra ID, mobile app access is also in GA with an allowlist.
Terraform MCP server 1.0 now generally available
Terraform MCP server 1.0 is now generally available, offering consistent infrastructure deployment with flexible options across an organization. This release aims to ensure uniformity in infrastructure management. It is now production-ready for all users.
Azure SQL MCP Server for Azure Updates is Generally Available
SQL MCP Server, which enables AI-powered discovery of Azure Updates, has been fully released and is production-ready for all Azure customers. This feature allows users to stay informed about Azure product and feature updates. It is now available in all Azure regions, following a limited development offering and a public preview stage.