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AWS – Amazon OpenSearch UI is now available in seven new regions
Amazon OpenSearch Service expands its modernized operational analytics experience to seven new regions, including Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (Milan), Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), and US-West (N. California) enabling users to gain insights across data spanning managed domains and serverless collections from a single endpoint. The expansion includes Workspaces to […]
AWS – SageMaker HyperPod now supports Topology Aware Scheduling of LLM tasks
SageMaker HyperPod task governance now supports Topology Aware Scheduling (TAS), enabling data scientists to schedule their large language model (LLM) tasks on an optimal network topology that minimizes network communication and enhances training efficiency. LLM training and fine-tuning tasks that are distributed across multiple accelerated compute instances frequently exchange large volumes of data between them. […]
AWS – PostgreSQL 18 Beta 3 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 18 Beta 3 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the pre-release of PostgreSQL 18 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can deploy PostgreSQL 18 Beta 3 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database. PostgreSQL […]
GCP – From legacy to cloud: How Deutsche Telekom went from PySpark to BigQuery DataFrames
In today’s hyper-competitive telecommunications landscape, understanding and maximizing the Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) metric isn’t just a nice-to-have, it’s a strategic imperative. For Deutsche Telekom, accurate CLV calculations are the bedrock of informed decisions, driving crucial initiatives in customer acquisition, retention, and targeted marketing campaigns. The ability to predict and influence long-term customer relationships directly […]
GCP – Announcing multi-subnet support for more scalable GKE clusters
We are pleased to announce the preview of multi-subnet support for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters. This enhancement removes single-subnet limitations, increasing scalability, optimizing resource utilization, and enhancing flexibility of your GKE clusters. Multi-subnet support for GKE clusters allows you to add additional subnets to an existing GKE cluster, which can then be utilized by […]
GCP – How Keeta processes 11 million financial transactions per second with Spanner
Keeta Network is a layer‑1 blockchain that unifies transactions across different blockchains and payment systems, eliminating the need for costly intermediaries, reducing fees, and enabling near‑instant settlements. By facilitating cross‑chain transactions and interoperability with existing payment systems, Keeta bridges the gap between cryptocurrencies and fiat, enabling a secure, efficient, and compliant global financial ecosystem. Founded […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: New Threat Horizons details evolving risks — and defenses
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2025. Today, our Office of the CISO’s Bob Mechler and Anton Chuvakin dive into the key trends and evolving threats that we tracked in our just-published Cloud Threat Horizons report. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google […]
AWS – AWS Batch now supports AWS Graviton-based Spot compute with AWS Fargate
AWS Batch for ECS Fargate now supports AWS Graviton-based compute with AWS Fargate Spot. This capability helps you run fault-tolerant Arm-based applications with up to 70% discount compared to Fargate prices. AWS Graviton processors are custom-built by AWS to deliver the best price-performance for cloud workloads. AWS Batch for ECS Fargate enables customers to deploy […]
AWS – Amazon Cloud Map adds support for cross-account service discovery
Amazon Cloud Map now supports cross-account service discovery through integration with Amazon Resource Access Manager (Amazon RAM). This enhancement lets you seamlessly manage and discover cloud resources—such as Amazon ECS tasks, Amazon EC2 instances, and Amazon DynamoDB tables—across Amazon accounts. By sharing your Amazon Cloud Map namespace via Amazon RAM, workloads in other accounts can […]
AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports decreasing your SSD storage capacity
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a fully managed shared storage service built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system, now allows you to decrease your file system’s solid-state drive (SSD) storage capacity, enabling you to more efficiently run project-based workloads with varying active working sets. You can provision SSD capacity upfront to meet peak usage needs—for […]