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AWS – Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now provides a new cluster setup experience
SageMaker HyperPod now provides a new cluster creation experience that sets up all the resources needed for large-scale AI/ML workloads—including networking, storage, compute, and IAM permissions in just a few clicks. SageMaker HyperPod clusters are purpose-built for scalability and resilience, designed to accelerate large-scale distributed training and deployment of complex machine learning models like LLMs […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns now supports multi-profile campaigns and enhanced phone number retry sequencing
Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns now supports account-based campaigns, allowing you to reach multiple people associated with the same account. For example, when calling about a joint bank account, if the first person is unavailable, the system automatically tries to reach other authorized members of the account. You can also define a prioritized contact sequence across […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports July 2025 Spatial Patch Bundle
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Spatial Patch Bundle (SPB) for the July 2025 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database version 19c. This update delivers important fixes for Oracle Spatial and Graph functionality, helping ensure reliable and optimal performance for your spatial operations. You can now create new DB instances […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the July 2025 Release Update (RU)
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the July 2025 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c. These RUs include bug and security fixes and are available for RDS for Oracle Standard Edition 2 and Enterprise Edition. Review the Oracle release notes for July RU for details. We recommend […]
AWS – FSx for ONTAP now allows decreasing SSD capacity, broadening support for workloads with varying high-performance storage needs
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a fully managed shared storage service built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system, now allows you to decrease your file system’s solid-state drive (SSD) storage capacity, enabling you to run project-based workloads with varying active working set sizes more efficiently. You can provision SSD capacity upfront to meet peak usage […]
GCP – Run OpenAI’s new gpt-oss model at scale with Google Kubernetes Engine
It’s exciting to see OpenAI contribute to the open ecosystem with the release of their new open weights model, gpt-oss. In keeping with our commitment to provide the best platform for open AI innovation, we’re announcing immediate support for deploying gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). To help customers make informed decisions while […]
GCP – Taming the stragglers: Maximize AI training performance with automated straggler detection
Stragglers are an industry-wide issue for developers working with large-scale machine learning workloads. The larger and more powerful these systems become, the more their performance is hostage to the subtle misbehavior of a single component. Training the next-generation large-scale models requires a new class of supercomputer, built by interconnecting tens of thousands of powerful accelerators. […]
GCP – Boosting defenders with AI: What’s coming at Security Summit 2025
While AI can help empower defenders, it can also create new security challenges. Those two critical, interconnected themes are driving our announcements and presentations for this year’s Google Cloud Security Summit. Join us live for Security Summit 2025 on August 19 to learn about the latest advancements in AI-powered security to strengthen your defenses and […]
GCP – How Yahoo Calendar broke free from hardware queues and DBA bottlenecks
Editor’s note: Yahoo Mail is in the midst of one of its largest infrastructure transformations to date: a multi-year effort to modernize hundreds of petabytes of services by moving to Google Cloud.The Yahoo Mail migration – a high-scale always-on workload – began with Yahoo Calendar, a product that is an essential part of the experience […]
AWS – AWS IoT Core introduces DeleteConnection API to streamline MQTT connections
AWS IoT Core now offers the DeleteConnection API, enabling programmatic disconnection of MQTT clients using their client IDs. This new capability helps enable developers to terminate MQTT connections with options to clear persistent sessions and suppress publication of Last Will and Testament messages—messages that the MQTT broker automatically publishes on a client’s behalf when it […]