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GCP – C4A VMs now GA: Our first custom Arm-based Axion CPU
At Google Next ‘24, we announced Google Axion Processors, our first custom Arm®-based CPUs designed for the data center. Today, we’re thrilled to announce the general availability of C4A virtual machines, the first Axion-based VM series, with up to 10% better price-performance than the latest generation Arm-based instances available from leading cloud providers. C4A VMs […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: 10 ways to make cyber-physical systems more resilient
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2024. Today, Anton Chuvakin, senior security consultant for our Office of the CISO, offers 10 leading indicators to improve cyber-physical systems, guided by our analysis of the White House’s new PCAST report. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to […]
AWS – AWS Clean Rooms launches Spark SQL support with configurable compute size
Today, AWS announces the launch of AWS Clean Rooms Spark SQL, offering customers the ability to run custom queries using Spark SQL. With this launch, customers can create an AWS Clean Rooms collaboration using the Spark analytics engine, and support workloads of different sizes with configurable instance types at query runtime. With AWS Clean Rooms […]
AWS – Amazon MemoryDB for Valkey adds new CloudWatch metrics to monitor server-side response time
Amazon MemoryDB for Valkey now supports server-side write request latency and read request latency metrics. With this launch, you can now measure the server-side response time for Valkey commands and troubleshoot latency spikes in your MemoryDB cluster. Monitoring latency is critical to improving end user experience by tracking application trends and adjusting cluster configurations, as […]
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey adds new CloudWatch metrics to monitor server-side response time
ElastiCache for Valkey self-designed (node-based) clusters now support server-side write request latency and read request latency metrics. With this launch, you can now measure the server-side response time for Valkey commands and troubleshoot latency spikes in your ElastiCache for Valkey cluster. Monitoring response time is critical to improving end user experience by tracking application trends […]
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports M7i and R7i database instances
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M7i and R7i database (DB) instances. M7i and R7i are the latest Intel based offering and are available with a new maximum instance size of 48xlarge, which brings 50% more vCPU and memory than the maximum size of M6i and R6i instance […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports dedicated coordinator nodes
Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers customers the option to provision a dedicated coordinator node. Dedicated coordinator nodes relieve data nodes from the responsibilities of traffic coordination and hosting of OpenSearch Dashboards, enabling better resource utilization, and improving overall efficiency of the cluster. In addition, coordinator nodes help reduce the number of private IP addresses that […]
AWS – AWS CodeBuild now supports retrying builds automatically
AWS CodeBuild now enables customers to configure automatic retries for their builds, reducing manual intervention upon build failures. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. With this new feature, you can configure a retry limit on your CodeBuild projects, and […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Mac instances now support Apple macOS Sequoia
Starting today, customers can run Apple macOS Sequoia (version 15) as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) on Amazon EC2 Mac instances. Apple macOS Sequoia is the latest major macOS version, and introduces multiple new features and performance improvements over prior macOS versions including running Xcode version 16.0 or later (which includes the latest SDKs for iOS, […]
GCP – Gemini models are coming to GitHub Copilot
Today, we’re announcing that GitHub will make Gemini models – starting with Gemini 1.5 Pro – available to developers on its platform for the first time through a new partnership with Google Cloud. Developers value flexibility and control in choosing the best model suited to their needs — and this partnership shows that the next […]