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AWS – AWS CodePipeline supports automatic retry on stage failure
AWS CodePipeline V2 type pipelines introduces the ability to automatically retry a stage if there is a failure in the stage. A stage fails if any action in the stage fails. To use automatic retry, set “Retry” as the result for the on failure lifecycle event of a stage, and optionally configure the flag to […]
GCP – Sustainable silicon to intelligent clouds: collaborating for the future of computing
Editor’s note: Today, we hear from Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Google VP and Technical Fellow and Amber Huffman, Principal Engineer. Partha delivered a keynote address today at the 2024 OCP Global Summit, an annual conference for leaders, researchers, and pioneers in the open hardware industry. Amber is on the board of directors at the Open Compute Project […]
AWS – AWS access portal now offers streamlined sign in for AWS Console Mobile App
AWS IAM Identity Center now provides customers with streamlined first-time access to the AWS Console Mobile Application, reducing the required user actions by more than half. In the past, AWS IAM Identity Center customers who wanted to access the AWS Console Mobile Application were required to find and manually enter their AWS access portal sign […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Europe (Zurich) regions
We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is expanding availability to the Amazon OpenSearch Serverless to Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Europe (Zurich) regions. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. OpenSearch Serverless’ compute […]
AWS – Amazon EFS now supports up to 60 GiB/s (a 2x increase) of read throughput
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) has increased the maximum filesystem read throughput to 60 GiB/s (a 2x increase). Amazon EFS provides serverless, fully elastic file storage that makes it simple to set up and run file workloads in the AWS cloud. In August 2024, we increased the maximum Elastic Throughput limits to 30 GiB/s […]
AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports custom shared network storage
Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports custom shared network storage as a new storage option for your Windows AppStream 2.0 users. With the launch of this feature, users can easily access and collaborate on shared files without transferring files manually. The shared network storage is implemented as an SMB (Server Message Block) network drive. When administrators […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks now support G6e instance types
We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 G6e instances on SageMaker Studio notebooks. Amazon EC2 G6e instances are powered by up to 8 NVIDIA L40s Tensor Core GPUs with 48 GB of memory per GPU and third generation AMD EPYC processors. G6e instances deliver up to 2.5x better performance compared to EC2 […]
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports M7g and R7g database instances in additional AWS Regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now support AWS Graviton3-based M7g database instances in Europe (Paris), and R7g database instances in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Europe (Milan). With this regional expansion, Graviton3 database instances are now available for Amazon RDS in 21 regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US […]
GCP – Founders share five takeaways from the Google Cloud Startup Summit
We recently hosted our annual Google Cloud Startup Summit, and we were thrilled to showcase a wide range of AI startups leveraging Google Cloud, including Higgsfield AI, Click Therapeutics, Baseten, LiveX AI, Reve AI, and Vellum. As a former co-founder and venture capitalist, I was inspired by the remarkable solutions these startups are developing and […]
GCP – Reltio’s Data Plane Transformation with Spanner on Google Cloud
In today’s data-driven landscape, data unification plays a pivotal role in ensuring data consistency and accuracy across an organization. Reltio, a leading provider of AI-powered data unification and management solutions, recently undertook a significant step in modernizing its data infrastructure by migrating from self-managed Cassandra to Spanner on Google Cloud. The outcome of this endeavor […]