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AWS – Amazon SQS expands IPv6 support to VPC endpoints in AWS commercial Regions
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) now allows customers to make API requests over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) through AWS PrivateLink with Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints. This launch extends IPv6 compatibility, previously available only for public endpoints, to VPC endpoints across all AWS commercial Regions. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now support higher Amazon EBS-optimized instance performance
Today, we are announcing enhanced Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) performance for Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances. This improvement delivers increased storage performance for memory-intensive workloads such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server databases. With the latest enhancements to the AWS Nitro System, U7i instances now support up to 560,000 IOPS and […]
AWS – AWS Private CA now supports issuing up to 100 million certificates per CA
AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) now enables you to issue up to 100 million certificates per certificate authority (CA), an increase from the previous default limit of 1 million certificates. This limit increase allows you to optimize your CA operations by managing fewer CAs while maintaining the security and flexibility of your public […]
AWS – AWS Firewall Manager adds support for AWS Private Link
AWS Firewall Manager announces security policy support for AWS Private Link. Customers have come to rely on AWS Private Link for secure communications, and AWS Firewall Manager to configure security services for their asset’s protection. Customers can now access and manage their Firewall Manager privately, without going through the public internet. AWS PrivateLink provides private […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service for Microsoft SQL Server that provides customers the option to bring their own licensed SQL Server media, and customize the underlying operating system and database environment. By using Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server, you can simplify operations using features such as high availability […]
AWS – Amazon SNS expands IPv6 support to VPC endpoints in AWS commercial Regions
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now allows customers to make API requests over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) through AWS PrivateLink with Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints. This launch extends IPv6 compatibility, previously available only for public endpoints, to VPC endpoints across all AWS commercial Regions. Amazon SNS is a fully managed messaging service […]
GCP – Announcing a new monitoring library to optimize TPU performance
For more than a decade, TPUs have powered Google’s most demanding AI training and serving workloads. And there is strong demand from customers for Cloud TPUs as well. When running advanced AI workloads, you need to be able to monitor and optimize the efficiency of your training and inference jobs, and swiftly diagnose performance bottlenecks, […]
GCP – Application monitoring in Google Cloud: Bridging manual and AI-assisted troubleshooting
As developers and operators, you know that having access to the right information in the proper context is crucial for effective troubleshooting. This is why organizations invest a lot upfront curating monitoring resources across different business units: so information is easy to find and contextualize when needed. Today we are reducing the need for this […]
GCP – How to enable Secure Boot for your AI workloads
As organizations race to deploy powerful GPU-accelerated workloads, they might overlook a foundational step: ensuring the integrity of the system from the very moment it turns on. Threat actors, however, have not overlooked this. They increasingly target the boot process with sophisticated malware like bootkits, which seize control before any traditional security software can load […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch SDK supports optimized JSON, CBOR protocols (in preview)
Amazon CloudWatch announces support for both the JSON and Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) protocols in the CloudWatch SDK, enabling lower latency and improved performance for CloudWatch customers. The SDK will automatically use JSON or CBOR as its new default communication protocol, offering customers a lower end-to-end processing latency as well as reduced payload sizes, […]