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AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Announces 99.99% Service Level Agreement
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) announces an updated Service Level Agreement (SLA), promising a 99.99% availability when using a Multi-Availability Zone (Multi-AZ) configuration. Previously, Amazon DocumentDB offered a 99.9% SLA. Now, Amazon DocumentDB has updated the SLA to 99.99%, increasing our commitment to service availability. Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fully managed native […]
AWS – AWS Backup enhances Amazon EC2 restores with custom volume configuration support
AWS Backup now offers enhanced Amazon EC2 restore capability that allows you to customize volume configurations during the restoration process. This new feature enables users to specify custom settings for all the attached Amazon EBS volumes to an EC2 AMI, including volume type, size, IOPS, AWS KMS encryption keys and others, directly through AWS Backup. […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune announces MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server
Today, AWS announces the launch of the Amazon Neptune MCP Server, now available in the AWS MCP open-source repository. This new server makes it easier for developers and AI assistants to interact with Amazon Neptune, enabling seamless integration of graph queries into generative AI workflows. Part of AWS’s growing suite of Model Context Protocol (MCP) […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C8gd, M8gd, and R8gd instances are now available Europe (Spain) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gd instances, M8gd instances, and R8gd instances with up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are now available in AWS Regions Europe (Spain) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, delivering up to 30% better performance over Graviton3-based instances. They have […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics Adds Java Runtime for Lightweight API Monitoring
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports the Java programming language for authoring canaries, enabling developers to write monitoring scripts using the Java 21 runtime environment. This new runtime, syn-java-1.0, allows customers to leverage existing Java expertise to continuously monitor the availability and performance of their services and applications using CloudWatch Synthetics. With Java support, customers can […]
GCP – Google Cloud’s open lakehouse: Architected for AI, open data, and unrivaled performance
The Google Data Cloud is a uniquely integrated platform built on Google’s planet-scale infrastructure, infused with AI, and features an open lakehouse architecture for multimodal data. Already, organizations like Snap Inc. credit Google’s Data Cloud and open lakehouse architecture with empowering their data engineers and data scientists to do more with their data assets. “Partnering […]
GCP – Leveraging AI for incident response: Personalized Service Health integrated with Gemini Cloud Assist
In the event of a cloud incident, everyone wants swift and clear communication from the cloud provider, and to be able to leverage that information effectively. Personalized Service Health in the Google Cloud console addresses this need with fast, transparent, relevant, and actionable communications about Google Cloud service disruptions, customized to your specific footprint. This […]
GCP – Mark Your Calendar: APT41 Innovative Tactics
Written by: Patrick Whitsell Google Threat Intelligence Group’s (GTIG) mission is to protect Google’s billions of users and Google’s multitude of products and services. In late October 2024, GTIG discovered an exploited government website hosting malware being used to target multiple other government entities. The exploited site delivered a malware payload, which we have dubbed […]
GCP – Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) & GDC air-gapped appliance achieve DoD Impact Level 6 (IL6) authorization
Today, we’re thrilled to announce another significant milestone for our Google Public Sector business: Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) & GDC air-gapped appliance achieved Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Level 6 (IL6) authorization. Google Public Sector is now able to provide DoD customers with a secure, compliant, and cutting-edge cloud environment at IL6, enabling them to […]
AWS – AWS Neuron introduces NxD Inference GA, new features, and improved tools
Today, AWS announces the release of Neuron 2.23, featuring enhancements across inference, training capabilities, and developer tools. This release moves the NxD Inference library (NxDI) to general availability (GA), introduces new training capabilities including Context Parallelism and ORPO, and adds support for PyTorch 2.6 and JAX 0.5.3. The NxD Inference library moves from beta to […]