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AWS – Amazon EKS introduces a new catalog of community add-ons in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) announced a new catalog of community add-ons that includes metrics-server, kube-state-metrics, cert-manager, prometheus-node-exporter, fluent-bit, and external-dns. This enables you to easily find, select, configure, and manage popular open-source Kubernetes add-ons directly through EKS. Each add-on has been packaged, scanned, and validated for compatibility by EKS, with container images securely […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 I7i instances now available in South America (São Paulo), Canada West (Calgary) regions
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of high performance Storage Optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances in the AWS South America (São Paulo), Canada West (Calgary) regions. Powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, these new instances deliver up to 23% better compute performance and more […]
AWS – New fault action in AWS FIS to inject I/O latency on Amazon EBS volumes
Today, Amazon EBS announced a new latency injection action in AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS), a fully managed service for running fault injection experiments. You can now use this action to inject I/O latency on your volumes as part of a controlled testing experiment to understand how your mission-critical applications respond to storage faults. With […]
AWS – Amazon Lex provides generative AI based enhanced natural language understanding in eight new languages
Amazon Lex now allows you to leverage large language models (LLMs) to improve the natural language understanding of your deterministic conversational AI bots in eight new languages: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Catalan, French, Italian, and German. With this capability, your voice- and chat-bots can better handle complex utterances, maintain accuracy despite spelling errors, and extract […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 supports detailed performance stats on all NVMe local volumes
Today, Amazon announced the availability of detailed performance statistics for Amazon EC2 instance store NVMe volumes. This new capability delivers real-time visibility into the performance of your AWS Nitro System-based EC2 instance store NVMe volumes, making it easier to monitor storage health and quickly resolve application performance issues. With EC2 detailed performance statistics, you can […]
GCP – Power up your data analysis: The Data Science Agent now supports BigQuery ML, DataFrames, and Spark
We recently announced AI-first Colab Enterprise notebook experience in BigQuery and Vertex AI to help you simplify and transform your data science and analytics workflows. Colab Enterprise notebooks come with a built-in Data Science Agent to accelerate your data science development with agentic capabilities that facilitate data exploration, transformation, and machine learning modeling. With nothing […]
GCP – Gemini and OSS text embeddings are now in BigQuery ML
High-quality text embeddings are the engine for modern AI applications like semantic search, classification, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). But when it comes to picking a model to generate these embeddings, we know one size doesn’t fit all. Some use cases demand state-of-the-art quality, while others prioritize cost, speed, or compatibility with the open-source ecosystem. To […]
GCP – New DNS Armor can help detect, mitigate domain name system risks
The Domain Name System (DNS) is like the internet’s phone book, automatically and near-instantly translating requests for websites and mobile apps from their domain names to the Internet Protocol addresses of the actual computers hosting them. As part of the bedrock of the internet, DNS and domain name lookup are also prime vehicles for threat […]
AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for fractional GPU instances
Today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 announces support for Graphics G6 instances with fractionalized GPU sizes, which are built on the EC2 G6 family, designed to cater to graphics applications that need smaller GPU fractions. Graphics G6 instances with fractionalized GPU sizes (G6f and Gr6f) allow users to utilize only the GPU resources they need, rather than provisioning […]
GCP – Oklahoma DOT gains valuable information on the health of bridge inventory with data-driven insights on Google Cloud
Managing Oklahoma’s extensive network of thousands of bridges is a critical responsibility for the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT). This immense undertaking demands not only diligent engineering and maintenance, but also the ability to effectively manage and analyze vast and complex data sets, including inspection reports, material histories and real-time environmental factors. ODOT recognized the […]