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AWS – Accelerate infrastructure development with AWS CloudFormation intelligent authoring in IDEs
Today, AWS CloudFormation announces the launch of the AWS CloudFormation Language Server, a new capability that brings intelligent authoring, early validation, troubleshooting, and drift management directly into Integrated Development Environment (IDE) through the AWS Toolkit. This new feature empowers developers to build infrastructure faster and deploy safely. With this launch, developers using Visual Studio, Kiro, […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch now supports scheduled queries in Logs Insights
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports automatically running Logs Insights queries on a recurring schedule for your log analysis needs. With scheduled queries, you can now automate log analysis tasks and deliver query results to Amazon S3 and Amazon EventBridge. With today’s launch, you can track trends, monitor key operational metrics, and detect anomalies without needing […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service launches Cluster Insights for improved operational visibility
Amazon OpenSearch Service now includes Cluster Insights, a monitoring solution that provides comprehensive operational visibility of your clusters through a single dashboard. This eliminates the complexity of having to analyze and correlate various logs and metrics to identify potential risks to cluster availability or performance. The solution automates the consolidation of critical operational data across […]
AWS – Amazon ECR introduces archive storage class for rarely accessed container images
Amazon ECR now offers a new archive storage class to reduce storage costs for large volumes of rarely accessed container images. The new archive storage class helps you meet your compliance and retention requirements while optimizing storage cost. As part of this launch, ECR lifecycle policies now support archiving images based on last pull time, […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs are now available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P6-B300 instances, accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra B300 GPUs. Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances provide 8x NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs with 2.1 TB high bandwidth GPU memory, 6.4 Tbps EFA networking, 300 Gbps dedicated ENA throughput, and 4 TB of system memory. P6-B300 instances […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock introduces Priority and Flex inference service tiers
Today, Amazon Bedrock introduces two new inference service tiers to optimize costs and performance for different AI workloads. The new Flex tier offers cost-effective pricing for non-time-critical applications like model evaluations and content summarization while the Priority tier provides premium performance and preferential processing for mission-critical applications. For most models that support Priority Tier, customers can realize […]
AWS – EC2 Auto Scaling now offers a synchronous API to launch instances inside an Auto Scaling group
Today, EC2 Auto Scaling is launching a new API, LaunchInstances, which gives customers more control and flexibility over how EC2 Auto Scaling provisions instances while providing instant feedback on capacity availability. Customers use EC2 Auto Scaling for automated fleet management. With scaling policies, EC2 Auto Scaling can automatically add instances when demand spikes and remove […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now adds audit logs for data plane APIs
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports detailed audit logging of data plane requests via AWS CloudTrail. This feature enables customers to record user actions on their collections, helping meet compliance regulations, improve security posture, and provide evidence for security investigations. Customers can now track user activities such as authorization attempts, index modifications, and search queries. Customers […]
GCP – A step-by-step guide to fine-tuning MedGemma for breast tumor classification
aside_block <ListValue: [StructValue([(‘title’, ‘Disclaimer: This guide is for informational and educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.’), (‘body’, <wagtail.rich_text.RichText object at 0x7f7c104adc40>), (‘btn_text’, ”), (‘href’, ”), (‘image’, None)])]> Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing healthcare, but how do you take a powerful, general-purpose AI model and teach it […]
GCP – Announcing Cloud SQL free trial instances: Experience the power of a fully managed database
Cloud SQL is a proven foundation for fully managed databases, offering production-ready MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server database engines without the operational headache. With Cloud SQL, there’s no need to worry about patches, backups, and scaling limits — just connect your app and start building. Today, we’re announcing new free trial instances designed to help […]