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AWS – Amazon EC2 G6e instances now available in Stockholm region
Starting today, the Amazon EC2 G6e instances powered by NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs is now available in Europe (Stockholm) region. G6e instances can be used for a wide range of machine learning and spatial computing use cases. Customers can use G6e instances to deploy large language models (LLMs) with up to 13B parameters and […]
AWS – Amazon Elastic Beanstalk now supports Windows Server 2025 and Windows Server Core 2025 environments
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now enables customers to deploy applications on Windows Server 2025 and Windows Server Core 2025 environments. These environments come pre-configured with .NET Framework 4.8.1 and .NET 8.0, providing developers with the latest Long Term Support (LTS) version of .NET alongside the established .NET Framework Windows Server 2025 and Windows Server Core 2025 […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Osaka) regions
Beginning today, customers can use Amazon Bedrock in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Osaka) regions to easily build and scale generative AI applications using a variety of foundation models (FMs) as well as powerful tools to build generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing […]
GCP – Unlock Inference-as-a-Service with Cloud Run and Vertex AI
It’s no secret that large language models (LLMs) and generative AI have become a key part of the application landscape. But most foundational LLMs are consumed as a service, meaning they’re hosted and served by a third party and accessed via APIs. Ultimately, this reliance on external APIs creates bottlenecks for developers. There are many […]
GCP – An SRE’s guide to optimizing ML systems with MLOps pipelines
Picture this: you’re an Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) responsible for the systems that power your company’s machine learning (ML) services. What do you do to ensure you have a reliable ML service, how do you know you’re doing it well, and how can you build strong systems to support these services? As artificial intelligence (AI) […]
GCP – Announcing quantum-safe digital signatures in Cloud KMS
The continued advancement of experimental quantum computing has raised concerns about the security of many of the world’s widely-used public-key cryptography systems. Crucially, there exists the potential for sufficiently large, cryptographically-relevant quantum computers to break these algorithms. This potential highlights the need for developers to build and implement quantum-resistant cryptography now. Fortunately, post-quantum cryptography (PQC) […]
GCP – Taking Flight: How the RAF Air Cadets bridged the digital divide with ChromeOS Flex
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Dr. Jill Matterface, Education and Training Specialist for the Royal Air Force. Early on in her career with the Royal Air Force Air Cadets, Dr. Jill Matterface, Education and Training Specialist for the RAF, discovered that 27% of cadets come from disadvantaged areas in the UK. These cadets, and […]
AWS – SES Outbound now delivers to Mail Manager Archives
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) announces that Outbound customers can now specify a Mail Manager archive resource as an additional destination for outbound mail workloads. This enables retention of messages post-DKIM-signature, ensuring that the archive is usable for validating every individual sent message. The Mail Manager archive search interface allows easy discovery of indexed messages […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall introduces automated domain lists and insights
AWS Network Firewall now offers automated domain lists and insights, a feature that enhances visibility into network traffic and simplifies firewall rule configuration. This new capability analyzes HTTP and HTTPS traffic logs from the last 30 days and provides insights into frequently accessed domains, enabling quick rule creation based on observed network traffic patterns. Many […]
AWS – Amazon ECS increases the CPU limit for ECS tasks to 192 vCPUs
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports CPU limits of up to 192 vCPU for ECS tasks deployed on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, an increase from the previous 10 vCPU limit. This enhancement allows customers to more effectively manage resource allocation on larger Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon ECS customers can define […]