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AWS – Announcing Amazon Redshift Serverless with AI-driven scaling and optimization
Today, Amazon Redshift Serverless introduces the next generation of AI-driven scaling and optimization in cloud data warehousing. Amazon Redshift Serverless uses AI techniques to automatically scale with workload changes across all key dimensions—such as data volume changes, number of concurrent users, and query complexity—to meet and maintain your price-performance targets. Amazon internal tests demonstrate that […]

AWS – Announcing AWS Amplify integration with Amazon S3 for static website hosting
AWS Amplify Hosting now integrates with Amazon S3 to seamlessly host static website content stored on S3 with just a few clicks. Amplify Hosting is a fully managed service that makes it easy to deploy your websites on a globally available content delivery network (CDN) powered by Amazon CloudFront, allowing secure and performant static website […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch now monitors EBS volumes exceeding provisioned performance
Today, Amazon announces the general availability of two new Amazon CloudWatch metrics to give insight into when your application is attempting to drive higher than your Amazon EBS volume’s provisioned performance. These two metrics, Volume IOPS Exceeded Check and Volume Throughput Exceeded Check, monitor if the driven IOPS or throughput is exceeding the provisioned performance […]

AWS – Amazon Redshift Serverless is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users, including data analysts, developers, and data scientists, can use Amazon Redshift to get insights from data in seconds. Amazon […]

GCP – Powerful infrastructure innovations for your AI-first future
The rise of generative AI has ushered in an era of unprecedented innovation, demanding increasingly complex and more powerful AI models. These advanced models necessitate high-performance infrastructure capable of efficiently scaling AI training, tuning, and inferencing workloads while optimizing for both system performance and cost effectiveness. Google Cloud has been pioneering AI infrastructure for over […]

GCP – Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google data-center networking evolution
Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither was Google’s network. But 25 years in, we’ve built out network infrastructure with scale and technical sophistication that’s nothing short of remarkable. It’s all the more impressive because in the beginning, Google’s network infrastructure was relatively simple. But as our user base and the demand for our […]

GCP – Introducing an industry first: application awareness on Cloud Interconnect
Multicloud architectures are becoming commonplace as more business-critical applications are moving to the cloud. Last year, we introduced the Cross-Cloud Network to transform and simplify hybrid and multicloud connectivity, and enable organizations to easily build distributed applications. As organizations modernize their infrastructure, leveraging AI/ML and other managed services, they have adopted Cross-Cloud Network to reduce […]

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 […]