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AWS – Amazon EC2 now supports skipping the operating system shutdown when stopping or terminating instances
Starting today, Amazon EC2 gives customers the option to skip the graceful operating system (OS) shutdown during an instance stop or terminate. Previously, customers waited by default for a graceful OS shutdown attempt when stopping or terminating their instances. Customers can now skip the graceful operating system shutdown attempt during stop or terminate for a […]
AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise Query API adds advanced SQL support and ODBC driver
We are announcing major enhancements to the AWS IoT SiteWise Query API (ExecuteQuery) to support a suite of advanced SQL capabilities, empowering customers to perform sophisticated data analysis on their industrial data and business intelligence tool integration. Customers can now leverage advanced SQL operations including string manipulation (such as pattern matching and substring extraction), aggregation […]
AWS – Cost Optimization Hub now supports account names in optimization opportunities
Cost Optimization Hub, a feature within the Billing and Cost Management Console, announces support for account names in cost optimization opportunities. This enhancement allows you to use account names to easily view, filter, consolidate, and prioritize cost optimization recommendations. This launch simplifies the process of identifying and managing cost optimization opportunities across complex account structures. […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances are now available in US East (N. Virginia)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P6-B200 instances accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs are available in US East (N. Virginia) region. These instances offer up to 2x performance compared to P5en instances for AI training and inference. P6-B200 instances feature 8 Blackwell GPUs with 1440 GB of high-bandwidth GPU memory and a 60% […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift
Amazon RDS for Oracle zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift enables near real-time analytics and machine learning (ML) to analyze petabytes of transactional data in Amazon Redshift without complex data pipelines for extract-transform-load (ETL) operations. Within seconds of data being written to Amazon RDS for Oracle, the data is replicated to Amazon Redshift. With Zero-ETL integrations, […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now generally available
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now generally available, enabling near real-time analytics and machine learning (ML) on petabytes of transactional data. With this launch, you can create multiple zero-ETL integrations from a single Amazon RDS database, and you can apply data filtering for each integration to […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Instance Connect and EC2 Serial console available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 Instance Connect and EC2 Serial console are also available in AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia), AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) and AWS Mexico (Central) regions. EC2 Instance Connect allows customers to connect to their instances over Secure Shell (SSH) with a single click from the EC2 console and single command from the AWS […]
GCP – How SUSE and Google Cloud collaborate on Confidential Computing
Securing sensitive data is a crucial part of moving workloads to the cloud. While encrypting data at rest and in transit are standard security practices, safeguarding data in use — while it’s actively being processed in memory — can present unique security and privacy challenges. To make sure that data in use is also protected, […]
GCP – Celebrating 10 years of GKE: Incredible customer journeys, amazing AI futures
The evolution of the cloud has been tremendous over the past decade. Every step of the way, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) has been there to meet new challenges. From giving DevOps more scalable foundations to supporting the rise of cloud-native AI, we took Kubernetes’ brilliance and gave it the fully managed service it deserved to […]
GCP – From Help Desk to Hypervisor: Defending Your VMware vSphere Estate from UNC3944
Introduction In mid 2025, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GITG) identified a sophisticated and aggressive cyber campaign targeting multiple industries, including retail, airline, and insurance. This was the work of UNC3944, a financially motivated threat group that has exhibited overlaps with public reporting of “0ktapus,” “Octo Tempest,” and “Scattered Spider.” Following public alerts from the Federal […]
