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AWS – Amazon EC2 I8g instances now available in additional AWS regions
AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 Storage Optimized I8g instances in Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) regions. I8g instances offer the best performance in Amazon EC2 for storage-intensive workloads. I8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors that deliver up to 60% better compute performance compared […]
AWS – Amazon EKS now supports up to 100,000 worker nodes per cluster
Today, Amazon EKS announces support for up to 100,000 worker nodes in a cluster, enabling you to run ultra scale AI/ML training and inference workloads in a single cluster. With Amazon EC2’s new generation accelerated computing instance types, 100,000 worker nodes support up to 1.6 million Trainium chips with Trn2 instances and 800,000 NVIDIA GPUs […]
AWS – Announcing support for Chaos V-Ray in AWS Deadline Cloud
AWS Deadline Cloud now supports usage-based licensing (UBL) for Chaos V-Ray so you can seamlessly leverage the cloud to render and access flexible V-Ray licensing. Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for teams creating computer-generated graphics and visual effects for films, television, broadcasting, web content, and design. With AWS Deadline […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Inventory ACL support is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon S3 Inventory’s capability to include access control lists (ACLs) as object metadata in inventory reports is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This allows you to easily review ACLs on all of your objects to simplify review of access permissions. ACLs were the original way to manage object access when S3 launched in […]
GCP – How to enable real time semantic search and RAG applications with Dataflow ML
Embeddings are a cornerstone of modern semantic search and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications. In short, they enable applications to understand and interact with information on a deeper, conceptual level. In this post, we’ll show you how to create and retrieve embeddings with a few lines of Dataflow ML code to enable both of these […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M6id instances are now available in Europe (Spain) region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6id instances are available in Europe (Spain) Region. These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. M6id instances are built on AWS Nitro […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports change data capture
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports Change Data Capture (CDC). In Microsoft SQL Server, CDC is a feature that utilizes the SQL Server Agent to log insertions, updates, and deletions occurring in a database table, and makes these data changes accessible to applications in a relational format to provide historical context. Amazon RDS […]
GCP – Engineering Deutsche Telekom’s sovereign data platform
Imagine transforming a sprawling, 20-year-old telecommunications data ecosystem, laden with sensitive customer information and bound by stringent European regulations, into a nimble, cloud-native powerhouse. That’s precisely the challenge Deutsche Telekom tackled head-on, explains Ashutosh Mishra. By using Google Cloud’s Sovereign Cloud offerings, they’ve built a groundbreaking “One Data Ecosystem.” When we decided to modernize our […]
AWS – Amazon MQ is now available in one additional region
Amazon MQ is now available in a new region, Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. With this launch, Amazon MQ is now available in a total of 37 regions. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for open-source Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easier to set up and operate message brokers on AWS. Amazon […]
AWS – Custom Instructions for Topics now generally available for Amazon Q in QuickSight
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Custom Instructions for Q&A topics in Amazon Q in QuickSight. Custom Instructions enables Author Pros to curate Amazon Q’s responses to questions by adding domain-specific knowledge that can’t be captured through a topic’s metadata settings, such as synonyms or semantic types. By providing these metadata descriptions or custom […]