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AWS – Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server supports up to 64TiB and 256,000 IOPS with io2 Block Express volumes
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now offers enhanced storage and performance capabilities, supporting up to 64TiB of storage and 256,000 I/O operations per second (IOPS) with io2 Block Express volumes. This represents an improvement from the previous limit of 16 TiB and 64,000 IOPS with io2 Block Express. These enhancements enable transactional databases and […]
AWS – AWS Glue expands connectivity to 14 native connectors for applications
AWS Glue announces 14 new connectors for applications, expanding its connectivity portfolio. Customers can now use AWS Glue native connectors to ingest data from Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT, CircleCI, Docusign Monitor, Domo, Dynatrace, Kustomer, Mailchimp, Microsoft Teams, Monday, Okta, Pendo, Pipedrive, Productboard and Salesforce Commerce Cloud. As enterprises increasingly rely on data-driven decisions, they need […]
AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports administrative control over admin consent for linking OneDrive for Business
Amazon AppStream 2.0 now allows administrator to control whether admin consent is required when users link their OneDrive for Business accounts as a persistent storage option. The new capability simplifies the management of AppStream 2.0 persistent storage and the admin consent process. After enabling OneDrive for Business for an AppStream 2.0 stack and specifying the […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now supports agent time off scheduling up to 24 months in the future
Amazon Connect now includes the ability for agents to schedule time off up to 24 months in the future, making it easier for managers and agents to plan ahead of time. With this launch, agents can now book time off in Connect up to 24 months ahead of time (an increase from 13 months). Additionally, […]
AWS – AWS Deadline Cloud now supports configurable limits to effectively manage fixed resources
AWS Deadline Cloud now includes the ability to specify a limit for a specific resource, like a floating license, and also constrain the maximum number of workers that work on a job. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for teams creating computer-generated graphics and visual effects, for films, television […]
GCP – Improving model performance with PyTorch/XLA 2.6
For developers who want to use the PyTorch deep learning framework with Cloud TPUs, the PyTorch/XLA Python package is key, offering developers a way to run their PyTorch models on Cloud TPUs with only a few minor code changes. It does so by leveraging OpenXLA, developed by Google, which gives developers the ability to define […]
GCP – Blackwell is here — new A4 VMs powered by NVIDIA B200 now in preview
Modern AI workloads require powerful accelerators and high-speed interconnects to run sophisticated model architectures on an ever-growing diverse range of model sizes and modalities. In addition to large-scale training, these complex models need the latest high-performance computing solutions for fine-tuning and inference. Today, we’re excited to bring the highly-anticipated NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to Google Cloud […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Tables add schema definition support to the CreateTable API
Amazon S3 announces schema definition support for the CreateTable API to programmatically create tables with pre-defined columns. This enhancement simplifies table creation for data analytics applications, making it easier to get started and ingest data in S3 table buckets. To use this feature, you can specify column names and their data types as new request […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Tables now support 10,000 tables per table bucket
Amazon S3 Tables now support creating up to 10,000 tables in each S3 table bucket. With this higher quota, you can scale up to 100,000 tables across 10 table buckets within an AWS Region per AWS Account. The higher table quota is available by default on all table buckets at no additional cost. S3 Tables […]
AWS – Amazon Q Developer Pro tier adds automated user onboarding emails
The Amazon Q Developer Pro tier now offers automated email notifications for newly subscribed users. When a new user is subscribed by an administrator, users will now automatically receive a welcome email within 24 hours containing important information to help them get started quickly and efficiently with their new subscription. This automation streamlines the onboarding […]