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AWS – Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB is now available in China regions
You can now use Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWC. Timestream for InfluxDB makes it easy for application developers and DevOps teams to run fully managed InfluxDB databases on Amazon Web Services for real-time time-series applications […]

AWS – AWS Directory Service is available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, and AD Connector are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. Built on actual Microsoft Active Directory (AD), AWS Managed Microsoft AD enables you to migrate AD-aware applications while reducing the work of managing AD infrastructure in the AWS […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 Mac instances now available in AWS Canada (Central) Region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M2 Mac instances are now generally available (GA) in the AWS Canada (Central) region. This marks the first time we are introducing Mac instances to an AWS Canadian region, providing customers with even greater global accessibility to Apple silicon hardware. Customers can now run their macOS workloads […]

AWS – AWS Control Tower launches the ability to resolve drift for optional controls
AWS Control Tower customers can now use the ResetEnabledControl API to programmatically resolve the control drift or re-deploy the control to its intended configuration. A control drift occurs when the AWS Control Tower managed control is modified outside the AWS Control Tower governance. Resolving drift helps you to adhere to your governance and compliance requirements. […]

GCP – Data loading best practices for AI/ML inference on GKE
As AI models increase in sophistication, there’s increasingly large model data needed to serve them. Loading the models and weights along with necessary frameworks to serve them for inference can add seconds or even minutes of scaling delay, impacting both costs and the end-user’s experience. For example, inference servers such as Triton, Text Generation Inference […]

GCP – Empower your teams with self-service Kubernetes using GKE fleets and Argo CD
Managing applications across multiple Kubernetes clusters is complex, especially when those clusters span different environments or even cloud providers. One powerful and secure solution combines Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) fleets and, Argo CD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. The solution is further enhanced with Connect Gateway and Workload Identity. This blog post […]

GCP – Unlocking LLM training efficiency with Trillium — a performance analysis
Rapidly evolving generative AI models place unprecedented demands on the performance and efficiency of hardware accelerators. Last month, we launched our sixth-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), Trillium, to address the demands of next-generation models. Trillium is purpose-built for performance at scale, from the chip to the system to our Google data center deployments, to power […]

GCP – 65,000 nodes and counting: Google Kubernetes Engine is ready for trillion-parameter AI models
As generative AI evolves, we’re beginning to see the transformative potential it is having across industries and our lives. And as large language models (LLMs) increase in size — current models are reaching hundreds of billions of parameters, and the most advanced ones are approaching 2 trillion — the need for computational power will only […]

GCP – Emerging Threats: Cybersecurity Forecast 2025
Every November, we start sharing forward-looking insights on threats and other cybersecurity topics to help organizations and defenders prepare for the year ahead. The Cybersecurity Forecast 2025 report, available today, plays a big role in helping us accomplish this mission. This year’s report draws on insights directly from Google Cloud’s security leaders, as well as […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB announces user experience enhancements to organize your tables in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon DynamoDB now enables customers to easily find frequently used tables in the DynamoDB console in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Customers can favorite their tables in the console’s tables page for quicker table access. Customers can click the favorites icon to view their favorited tables in the console’s tables page. With this update, customers […]