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AWS – Amazon EC2 M8g instances now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8g instances are available in AWS Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Osaka), AWS Canada (Central), and AWS Middle East (Bahrain) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 M8g instances are built for […]
GCP – Agile AI architectures: A fungible data center for the intelligent era
It’s not hyperbole to say that AI is transforming all aspects of our lives: human health, software engineering, education, productivity, creativity, entertainment… Consider just a few of the developments from Google this past year: Magic Cue on the Pixel 10 for more personal, proactive, and contextually-relevant assistance; our viral Nano Banana Gemini 2.5 Flash image […]
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports the latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports the latest General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for Microsoft SQL Server. This release includes support for Microsoft SQL Server 2016 SP3+GDR KB5065226 (RDS version 13.00.6470.1.v1), SQL Server 2017 CU31+GDR KB5065225 (RDS version 14.00.3505.1.v1), SQL Server 2019 CU32+GDR KB5065222 (RDS version 15.00.4445.1.v1) and SQL Server […]
GCP – Introducing LLM-Evalkit: A practical framework for prompt engineering on Google Cloud
If you’ve worked with Large Language Models (LLMs), you’re likely familiar with this scenario: your team’s prompts are scattered across documents, spreadsheets, and different cloud consoles. Iterating is often a manual and inefficient process, making it difficult to track which changes actually improve performance. To address this, we’re introducing LLM-Evalkit, a light-weight, open-source application designed […]
GCP – Chaos engineering on Google Cloud: Principles, practices, and getting started
As engineers, we all dream of perfectly resilient systems — ones that scale perfectly, provide a great user experience, and never ever go down. What if we told you the key to building these kinds of resilient systems isn’t avoiding failures, but deliberately causing them? Welcome to the world of chaos engineering, where you stress […]
GCP – The future of media sanitization at Google
At Google, protecting your data is our most important responsibility, and we are committed to keeping your data safe. To further this commitment, we are proud to announce that starting in November 2025, we will start transitioning our approach to media sanitization to fully rely on a robust and layered encryption strategy. This marks a […]
AWS – Amazon Quick Sight expands font customization for visuals
Amazon Quick Sight now supports font customization for data labels and axes. Authors can now customize fonts for data labels and axes in supported charts, in addition to the previously supported font customization for visual titles, subtitles, and legend, as well as tables and pivot tables headers. Authors can set the font size (in pixels), […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 12TB of memory (u7i-12tb.224xlarge) are now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. U7i-12tb instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-12tb instances offer 12TiB of DDR5 memory enabling customers to scale transaction […]
AWS – AWS now supports immediate resource discovery within a Region
AWS now provides immediate access to resource search capabilities in all accounts through AWS Resource Explorer. With this launch, you no longer need to activate Resource Explorer to discover your resources in a Region. To start searching, you need, at minimum, permissions in the AWS Resource Explorer Read Only Access or AWS Read Only Access […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker AI Projects now supports custom template S3 provisioning
Amazon SageMaker AI Projects now supports provisioning custom machine learning (ML) project templates from Amazon S3. Administrators can now manage ML templates in SageMaker AI studio so data scientists can create standardized ML projects to meet their organizational needs. Data scientists can use Amazon SageMaker AI Projects to create standardized ML projects that meet organizational […]