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AWS – Amazon ECS Service Connect adds support for cross-account workloads
Amazon ECS Service Connect now supports seamless communication between services residing in different AWS accounts through integration with AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM). This enhancement simplifies resource sharing, reduces duplication, and promotes consistent service-to-service communication across environments for organizations with multi-account architectures. Amazon ECS Service Connect leverages AWS Cloud Map namespaces for storing information […]
AWS – AWS Direct Connect support for 4-byte Autonomous System numbers for Virtual interfaces
AWS Direct Connect now supports 4-byte Autonomous System (AS) numbers for virtual interfaces. Direct Connect uses the standard Border Gateway Protocol to provide customers with private connectivity to the AWS global network. However, customers with complex, multi-tenant network topologies or who need to maintain consistent AS numbering across their entire network can run into challenges […]
GCP – AlloyDB on Axion-powered C4A instances is generally available
At Google Cloud Next ’25, we announced the preview of AlloyDB on C4A virtual machines, powered by Google Axion processors, our custom Arm-based CPUs. Today, we’re glad to announce that C4A virtual machines are generally available! For transactional workloads, leveraging C4A, AlloyDB provides nearly 50% better price-performance compared to N series machines for transactional workloads, […]
GCP – How Rent the Runway supercharges developer speed and insights with Cloud SQL
Editor’s note: Rent the Runway is redefining how consumers engage with fashion, offering on-demand access to designer clothing through a unique blend of e-commerce and reverse logistics. As customer expectations around speed, personalization, and reliability continue to rise, Rent the Runway turned to Google Cloud’s fully managed database services to modernize its data infrastructure. By […]
GCP – OpenTelemetry Protocol comes to Google Cloud Observability
OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) is a data exchange protocol designed to transport telemetry from a source to a destination in a vendor-agnostic fashion. Today, we’re pleased to announce that Cloud Trace, part of Google Cloud Observability, now supports users sending trace data using OTLP via telemetry.googleapis.com. Fig 1: Both in-process and collector based configurations can use […]
AWS – Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances are now generally available (GA). M4 Mac instances offer up to 20% better application build performance compared to M2 Mac instances, while M4 Pro Mac instances deliver up to 15% better application build performance compared to M2 Pro Mac instances. These […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker notebooks now support P6-B200 instance type
We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances on SageMaker notebooks. Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances are powered by 8 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs with 1440 GB of high-bandwidth GPU memory and 5th Generation Intel Xeon processors (Emerald Rapids). These instances deliver up to 2x better performance compared to P5en instances for AI […]
AWS – New EFA metrics for improved observability of AWS networking
Today, AWS has introduced five new Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) metrics to enhance network observability for AI/ML and High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads. These new metrics help diagnose performance issues by tracking retransmitted packets and bytes, retransmit timeout events, impaired remote connection events, and unresponsive remote receiver events. With these new metrics, you can monitor […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Proxy announces support for end-to-end IAM authentication
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy now supports end-to-end IAM authentication for connections to Amazon Aurora and RDS database instances. This feature allows you to connect from your applications to your databases through RDS Proxy using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) authentication. End-to-end IAM authentication simplifies credential management, reduces credential rotation overhead, and enables […]
AWS – Malware Protection for S3 Expands File Size and Archive Scanning Limits
Today, AWS announces enhanced scanning capabilities for GuardDuty Malware Protection for Amazon S3. This launch increases scanning capabilities by raising the maximum file size limit from 5GB to 100 GB. Additionally, the archive processing capacity has been expanded to handle up to 10,000 files per archive, up from the previous limit of 1,000 files. GuardDuty […]