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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, […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports linked servers with Oracle OLEDB Driver version 21.16
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports linked servers with Oracle OLEDB Driver version 21.16. Linked servers allow customers to access external datasources from within their Amazon RDS for SQL Server database. Linked servers with Oracle OLEDB can be used in SQL Server Standard or Enterprise Editions, and with SQL Server 2017, 2019, or 2022 […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon DynamoDB local major version release version 3.0.0
Today, DynamoDB local, the downloadable version of Amazon DynamoDB, migrates to AWS SDK for Java 2.x. In alignment with our SDKs and Tools Maintenance Policy, this migration ensures DynamoDB local stays up-to-date in security, compatibility, and stability for developers developing and testing their DynamoDB applications locally. With the new DynamoDB local version 3.0.0, now you […]
AWS – AWS Clean Rooms ML now supports Parquet file format
Starting today, AWS Clean Rooms now supports training custom ML models on data in Parquet file format. Parquet is a free and open-source column-oriented data storage format that provides efficient data compression and encoding schemes with enhanced performance. With AWS Clean Rooms ML custom modeling, you and your partners can train a custom ML model […]
AWS – Amazon ECS enables built-in blue/green deployments
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) announces new features that make software updates for your containerized applications safer, allowing you to ship software faster and with high confidence, without needing to build custom deployment tooling. Amazon ECS now supports a built-in blue/green deployment strategy and deployment lifecycle hooks that allow you to test new application […]