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AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector integrates with Amazon EKS access management controls
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector, a fully-managed agentless collector for Prometheus metrics now integrates with the Amazon EKS access management controls. Starting today, the collector utilizes the EKS access management controls to create a managed access policy that allows the collector to discover and collect Prometheus metrics. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector with […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker notebooks now support G6 instance types
We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 G6 instances on SageMaker notebooks. Amazon EC2 G6 instances are powered by up to 8 NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs with 24 GB of memory per GPU and third generation AMD EPYC processors. G6 instances offer 2x better performance for deep learning inference compared to […]
GCP – LLMs, AI Studio, Higher Quality, Oh my! Our latest Translation AI advancements
When it comes to AI use cases, language translation is amongst the most practical and widely adopted by companies and organizations alike. From Canva to Bloomberg, companies have pursued the flywheel of automatic multi-lingual translation, seeking to make content more accessible to employees, customers, communities, and the public. Since introducing the transformer architecture in 2017, […]
GCP – The surprising economics of Horizontal Pod Autoscaling tuning
The Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) is a fundamental tool for managing the scalability and efficiency of your environment, working by deploying more Pods in response to increased load. However, achieving the best price-performance with HPA requires a nuanced understanding of its settings, particularly your CPU utilization targets. The common assumption that a 50% CPU […]
GCP – How chaos testing adds extra reliability to Spanner’s fault-tolerant design
One of the secrets behind Spanner’s reliability is the team’s extensive use of chaos testing, the process of deliberately injecting faults into production-like instances of the database. Although engineers focus on testing the “happy path,” most software bugs occur when things go wrong. Given Spanner’s complex architecture and constantly evolving codebase, it is inevitable that […]
GCP – Building a Cloud Data Fusion pipeline to upload audit records generated by Cloud SQL for SQL Server to BigQuery
Introduction Cloud SQL for SQL Server offers configurable auditing, capturing events like login attempts, DDLs, and DMLs. These events are stored locally on the instance for up to 7 days and can be preserved longer in GCS buckets. Some customers want to access and analyze their Cloud SQL for SQL Server audit data in other […]
GCP – Paramount+: A streaming powerhouse with limitless entertainment
Paramount+ is a treasure trove of streaming entertainment for a global audience. With a click, swipe, or voice command, viewers have instant access to iconic films like “The Godfather” and “Top Gun”, television classics like “Star Trek” and “Survivor,” and modern hits like “Yellowstone,” “1883,” and “Halo.” In addition to its immense library of filmed […]
AWS – Amazon Cognito introduces tiered pricing for machine-to-machine (M2M) usage
Amazon Cognito introduces pricing for machine-to-machine (M2M) authentication to better support continued growth and expand capabilities. There is no change to Amazon Cognito’s user based pricing (monthly active users or MAUs). Customer accounts currently using Amazon Cognito for M2M use cases will be exempt from pricing for 12 months. M2M pricing is based on the […]
AWS – Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.12
Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.12.13, which includes several fixes and performance improvements to the previous versions of RabbitMQ supported by Amazon MQ. Starting from RabbitMQ 3.12.13, all Classic Queues on Amazon MQ brokers are upgraded to Classic Queues version 2 (CQv2) automatically. All queues on RabbitMQ 3.12 now behave similarly to lazy […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 16.3, 15.7, 14.12, 13.15, and 12.19
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions PostgreSQL 16.3, 15.7, 14.12, 13.15, and 12.19. This release of RDS for PostgreSQL also includes support for pgvector 0.7.0, which lets you index vectors larger than 2,000 dimensions and adds support for scalar and binary quantization through expression indexes. The PostgreSQL community […]