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AWS – AWS announces Amazon Redshift integration with Amazon Bedrock for generative AI
AWS announces the integration of Amazon Redshift with Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service offering high-performing foundation models (FMs) making it simpler, and faster for you to build generative AI applications. This integration enables you to leverage large language models (LLMs) from simple SQL commands alongside your data in Amazon Redshift. With this new feature, […]

AWS – Amazon Redshift now supports incremental refresh on Materialized Views (MVs) for data lake tables
Amazon Redshift now supports incremental refresh of Materialized Views (MVs) on data lake tables. This capability helps customers improve query performance for their data lake queries in a cost effective and efficient manner. By enabling incremental refresh for MVs, customers can maintain up-to-date data in a more efficient and affordable way. Customers leverage data lake […]

AWS – AWS Deadline Cloud now adds budget-related events
AWS Deadline Cloud now sends budget-related events via Amazon EventBridge, helping provide you with real-time updates on Deadline Cloud project spend. Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for teams creating computer-generated 2D/3D graphics and visual effects for films, TV shows, commercials, games, and industrial design. Rendering is a computationally intense […]

AWS – Amazon EMR 7.3 now provides enhanced protection for In-Transit data
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon EMR 7.3. With Amazon EMR 7.3, you get enhanced data protection by encrypting data in-transit for distributed applications. This helps you run workloads that meet strict regulatory or compliance requirements by protecting the confidentiality and integrity of your data. Amazon EMR enables in-transit encryption […]

AWS – Announcing Amazon Redshift Serverless with AI-driven scaling and optimization
Today, Amazon Redshift Serverless introduces the next generation of AI-driven scaling and optimization in cloud data warehousing. Amazon Redshift Serverless uses AI techniques to automatically scale with workload changes across all key dimensions—such as data volume changes, number of concurrent users, and query complexity—to meet and maintain your price-performance targets. Amazon internal tests demonstrate that […]

AWS – Announcing AWS Amplify integration with Amazon S3 for static website hosting
AWS Amplify Hosting now integrates with Amazon S3 to seamlessly host static website content stored on S3 with just a few clicks. Amplify Hosting is a fully managed service that makes it easy to deploy your websites on a globally available content delivery network (CDN) powered by Amazon CloudFront, allowing secure and performant static website […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch now monitors EBS volumes exceeding provisioned performance
Today, Amazon announces the general availability of two new Amazon CloudWatch metrics to give insight into when your application is attempting to drive higher than your Amazon EBS volume’s provisioned performance. These two metrics, Volume IOPS Exceeded Check and Volume Throughput Exceeded Check, monitor if the driven IOPS or throughput is exceeding the provisioned performance […]

AWS – Amazon Redshift Serverless is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users, including data analysts, developers, and data scientists, can use Amazon Redshift to get insights from data in seconds. Amazon […]

GCP – Powerful infrastructure innovations for your AI-first future
The rise of generative AI has ushered in an era of unprecedented innovation, demanding increasingly complex and more powerful AI models. These advanced models necessitate high-performance infrastructure capable of efficiently scaling AI training, tuning, and inferencing workloads while optimizing for both system performance and cost effectiveness. Google Cloud has been pioneering AI infrastructure for over […]
GCP – Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google data-center networking evolution
Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither was Google’s network. But 25 years in, we’ve built out network infrastructure with scale and technical sophistication that’s nothing short of remarkable. It’s all the more impressive because in the beginning, Google’s network infrastructure was relatively simple. But as our user base and the demand for our […]