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AWS – NVIDIA GPU Time-slicing Now Available for Bottlerocket to Enhance AI/ML Workload Efficiency
Today, AWS has announced the introduction of NVIDIA GPU Time-slicing support for Bottlerocket, the Linux-based operating system purpose-built for hosting containers, with a focus on security, minimal footprint, and safe updates. This new feature addresses the challenge of maximizing GPU utilization in multi-tenant and resource-constrained environments by enabling more efficient GPU resource sharing for Artificial […]
AWS – EC2 Image Builder now supports Apple macOS
EC2 Image Builder now supports Apple macOS operating system, allowing customers to use macOS as base images for their image pipelines. This capability enables customers to create and manage custom macOS images with the same ease as they do today for supported Windows and Linux distributions. Previously, customers had to manually build their up-to-date macOS […]
AWS – Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics introduces Query Insights
Today, Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics announces the launch of Query Insights, a feature that provides details of your query execution, enabling you to identify areas for improvement to optimize your queries, resulting in improved query performance and lower query costs. Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics is a serverless time-series database that automatically scales to ingest and […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports per second billing
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink is now billed in one-second increments. There is a ten-minute minimum charge per application. Per-second billing is applicable to applications that are newly launched or already running. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink makes it easier to transform and analyze streaming data in real time with Apache Flink. Apache […]
AWS – AWS Billing Conductor now supports RI and Savings Plans coverage and utilization reports
Starting today, AWS Billing Conductor (ABC) customers can view pro forma data in Reservation and Saving Plan coverage and utilization reports. This release allows ABC customers to analyze Reservation and Saving Plans utilization and coverage metrics scoped at the billing group level and reflecting the pro forma pricing rules. AWS Partners can use the feature […]
GCP – Save on GPUs: Smarter autoscaling for your GKE inferencing workloads
While LLM models deliver immense value for an increasing number of use cases, running LLM inference workloads can be costly. If you’re taking advantage of the latest open models and infrastructure, autoscaling can help you optimize your costs — ensuring you’re meeting customer demand while only paying for the AI accelerators you need. As a […]
GCP – Spanner and PostgreSQL at Prefab: Flexible, reliable, and cost-effective at any size
TL;DR: We use Spanner’s PostgreSQL interface at Prefab, and we’ve had a good time. It’s easy to set up, easy to use, and — surprisingly — less expensive than other databases we’ve tried for workloads that need the option to scale. We’re already impressed by the performance to date, and we’re nowhere close to its […]
GCP – Triple Impact Connections cuts costs and support tickets with ChromeOS
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Josh Kuligowski, Chief Technology Officer for veteran-owned Triple Impact Connections, a business processing outsourcing (BPO) company based in Killeen, Texas. Triple Impact Connections provides contact center customer service programs for the banking, healthcare, and restaurant industries. The company’s management and agent workforce is made up almost entirely of military […]
GCP – End-user computing that’s made for today and ready for what’s next
The way we work has fundamentally changed. We’re more mobile, more dispersed, and more reliant on cloud-based tools than ever before and we’re inspired by what efficiencies AI can bring to our work day. At Google, we’re committed to building end user computing tools that empower businesses to thrive today and ensuring you have the […]
AWS – AWS Mainframe Modernization introduces new integrations for managed runtimes
We are excited to announce that the AWS Mainframe Modernization service now offers new integrations that provide greater flexibility of managed runtime environments running modernized mainframe applications. The new capabilities include new integrations with LDAP, LRS print and output management, AWS Health events, and support for Amazon EC2 M7i instances. For applications modernized using AWS […]