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AWS – Amazon EC2 makes it easier to launch Windows instances with EC2 Fast Launch
Starting today, you can launch Windows instances using EC2 Fast Launch, without requiring a launch template or a default VPC. EC2 Fast Launch reduces the launch times of Windows instances using pre-provisioned snapshots. Previously, customers needed a launch template or a default VPC to enable EC2 Fast Launch for their Windows AMIs. With this update, […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora and RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now offer Reserved Instances for R7i and M7i instances
Customers running Amazon Aurora and RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB databases can now purchase Reserved Instances for R7i and M7i instances. These instances are powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and provide larger sizes up to 48xlarge with an 8:1 ratio of memory to vCPU and the latest DDR5 memory. Reserved […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora and RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now offer Reserved Instances for R8g and M8g instances
Customers running Amazon Aurora and RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB databases can now purchase Reserved Instances for Graviton4-based R8g and M8g instances. These instances provide larger sizes up to 48xlarge with an 8:1 ratio of memory to vCPU and the latest DDR5 memory. Graviton4-based instances deliver up to 40% performance improvement and 29% better […]
GCP – A guide to Google ADK and MCP integration with an external server
For AI-powered agents to perform useful, real-world tasks, they need to reliably access tools and up-to-the-minute information that lives outside the base model. Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) is designed to address this, providing a standardized way for agents to retrieve that crucial, external context needed to inform their responses and actions. This is vital […]
GCP – Unlock software delivery excellence and quality with Gemini Code Assist agents
According to DORA’s latest research – the Impact of Generative AI in Software Development report – AI tools are making software developers feel more productive, focused, and satisfied. They’re even writing better code and documentation more quickly. But the research uncovered a paradox: these individual gains do not translate directly into improved system-level performance. In […]
GCP – Google Cloud announces first-of-its-kind generative AI leader certification
Organizations are rapidly integrating generative AI in ways that directly impact all employees, not just technical teams. We’re seeing this across a variety of customer use cases. For instance, Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs reports employees saving an average of five hours weekly using Gemini in Gmail for tasks like drafting emails. Hog Island Oyster […]
AWS – Amazon ECS adds support for Amazon EBS Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) today added support for Amazon EBS Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization. This feature helps you provision and attach fully performant Amazon EBS volumes from Amazon EBS Snapshots to your Amazon ECS tasks, accelerating initialization for your ETL jobs, media transcoding, and ML inference workloads deployed on Amazon ECS. Amazon […]
AWS – AWS announces new AWS Data Transfer Terminal location in the San Francisco Bay Area
Today, AWS announces the opening of a new AWS Data Transfer Terminal location within CoreSite SV8 in Santa Clara, California, marking the second location in California alongside existing locations in Los Angeles and New York City. AWS Data Transfer Terminal is a secure, physical location where you can bring your storage devices and upload data […]
AWS – Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for EC2 now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for Amazon EC2 in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, enabling GuardDuty customers to detect the potential presence of malware by scanning the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes attached to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances and container workloads running on […]
AWS – AWS Deadline Cloud service-managed fleets now support configuration scripts
AWS Deadline Cloud now supports specifying a configuration script on both Linux and Windows service-managed fleets. The provided configuration script will be run with elevated privileges on each worker. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for teams creating computer-generated graphics and visual effects, for films, television and broadcasting, web […]