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AWS – Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs are now available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P6-B300 instances, accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra B300 GPUs. Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances provide 8x NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs with 2.1 TB high bandwidth GPU memory, 6.4 Tbps EFA networking, 300 Gbps dedicated ENA throughput, and 4 TB of system memory. P6-B300 instances […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock introduces Priority and Flex inference service tiers
Today, Amazon Bedrock introduces two new inference service tiers to optimize costs and performance for different AI workloads. The new Flex tier offers cost-effective pricing for non-time-critical applications like model evaluations and content summarization while the Priority tier provides premium performance and preferential processing for mission-critical applications. For most models that support Priority Tier, customers can realize […]
AWS – EC2 Auto Scaling now offers a synchronous API to launch instances inside an Auto Scaling group
Today, EC2 Auto Scaling is launching a new API, LaunchInstances, which gives customers more control and flexibility over how EC2 Auto Scaling provisions instances while providing instant feedback on capacity availability. Customers use EC2 Auto Scaling for automated fleet management. With scaling policies, EC2 Auto Scaling can automatically add instances when demand spikes and remove […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now adds audit logs for data plane APIs
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports detailed audit logging of data plane requests via AWS CloudTrail. This feature enables customers to record user actions on their collections, helping meet compliance regulations, improve security posture, and provide evidence for security investigations. Customers can now track user activities such as authorization attempts, index modifications, and search queries. Customers […]
GCP – A step-by-step guide to fine-tuning MedGemma for breast tumor classification
aside_block <ListValue: [StructValue([(‘title’, ‘Disclaimer: This guide is for informational and educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.’), (‘body’, <wagtail.rich_text.RichText object at 0x7f7c104adc40>), (‘btn_text’, ”), (‘href’, ”), (‘image’, None)])]> Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing healthcare, but how do you take a powerful, general-purpose AI model and teach it […]
GCP – Announcing Cloud SQL free trial instances: Experience the power of a fully managed database
Cloud SQL is a proven foundation for fully managed databases, offering production-ready MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server database engines without the operational headache. With Cloud SQL, there’s no need to worry about patches, backups, and scaling limits — just connect your app and start building. Today, we’re announcing new free trial instances designed to help […]
GCP – TimesFM in Data Cloud: The future of forecasting in BigQuery and AlloyDB
We are thrilled to announce the integration of TimesFM into our leading data platforms, BigQuery and AlloyDB. This brings the power of large-scale, pre-trained forecasting models directly to your data within the Google Data Cloud, enabling you to predict future trends with unprecedented ease and accuracy. TimesFM is a powerful time-series foundation model developed by […]
GCP – Conquering IP address scarcity: A deep dive into Google Cloud’s private NAT
Running AI workloads in a hybrid fashion — in your data center and in the cloud — requires sophisticated, global networks that unify cloud and on-premises resources. While Google’s Cloud WAN provides the necessary unified network fabric to connect VPCs, data centers, and specialized hardware, this very interconnectedness exposes a critical, foundational challenge: IP address […]
GCP – Bringing Gemini 3 to Enterprise
The fastest way to transform your business is here. Today, we’re bringing Gemini 3, our most intelligent model, to every developer and enterprise team. It’s the best model in the world for multimodal understanding, and our most powerful agentic and vibe-coding model yet. Plus, Gemini 3 Pro tops the LMArena Leaderboard with a breakthrough score […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Optimized Reads now supports R8gd and M8gd database instances
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) now supports R8gd and M8gd database instances for Optimized Reads on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. R8gd and M8gd database instances offer improved price-performance. For example, Optimized Reads on R8gd instances deliver up to 165% better throughput and up to 120% better price-performance over R6g […]