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GCP – Enhancing GKE data protection with cross-project backup and restore
As Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) deployments grow and scale, adopting a multi-project strategy in Google Cloud becomes a best practice for security and environment organization. Creating clear boundaries by using distinct projects for development, testing, and production environments provides isolation and helps manage access control. However, isolation introduces a data protection challenge: How do you […]
GCP – Manipal Hospitals and Google Cloud partner to transform nurse handoffs with GenAI
As one of India’s largest healthcare providers, Manipal Hospitals serves nearly 7 million patients annually across 37 hospitals. To deliver clinical excellence and patient-centric care at a high standard, we are continually embracing technology. One of our most significant operational challenges we consistently face is the nurse handover process—a critical but time-consuming task. To make […]
GCP – How Jina AI built its 100-billion-token web grounding system with Cloud Run GPUs
Editor’s note: The Jina AI Reader is a specialized tool that transforms raw web content from URLs or local files into a clean, structured, and LLM-friendly format. In this post, Han Xiao details how Cloud Run empowers Jina AI to build a secure, reliable, and massively scalable web scraping system that remains economically viable. This […]
AWS – Enhanced AWS Specialization badges now display categories
AWS is pleased to announce a significant enhancement to the AWS Specialization Programs Badge, which is available now. This enhancement will enable AWS Specialization Partners to showcase badges that display both their specific specialization and its corresponding category, addressing frequent feedback from our partners and customers. In today’s competitive cloud marketplace, AWS Specializations have become […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker HyperPod accelerates open-weights model deployment
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports deploying both open-weights foundation models from Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and your own fine-tuned models from Amazon S3 and Amazon FSx directly to Amazon SageMaker HyperPod. This enables you to seamlessly train, fine tune, and deploy models on the same HyperPod compute resources, maximizing resource utilization across the entire model lifecycle […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports remote connections from Visual Studio Code
Today, AWS announces remote connection from Visual Studio Code to Amazon SageMaker Studio development environments, enabling AI developers to use Visual Studio Code with SageMaker AI’s scalable compute resources. This new capability enables developers to connect from Visual Studio Code to SageMaker Studio in minutes instead of hours, enabling them to rapidly scale their model […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker HyperPod introduces CLI and SDK for AI Workflows
We are excited to announce the general availability of the Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Command Line Interface (CLI) and Software Development Kit (SDK). These tools make it easier for developers and ML practitioners to build, train, and deploy large-scale AI models on SageMaker HyperPod. SageMaker HyperPod CLI offers a simple, consistent command-line experience for managing HyperPod […]
AWS – AWS announces 100G expansion in Kolkata, India
Today, AWS announced the expansion of 100 Gbps dedicated connections at the AWS Direct Connect location in the STT Kolkata, DC1 data center center near Kolkata, India. You can now establish private, direct network access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones from this location. This […]
AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region, providing fully managed shared storage in the cloud with the data access and management capabilities of ONTAP. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the […]
AWS – Amazon FSx for OpenZFS is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region, providing fully managed shared file storage built on the OpenZFS file system. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range […]