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GCP – Google Cloud Networking under the hood: How Protective ReRoute increases resilience
Cloud infrastructure reliability is foundational, yet even the most sophisticated global networks can suffer from a critical issue: slow or failed recovery from routing outages. In massive, planetary-scale networks like Google’s, router failures or complex, hidden conditions can prevent traditional routing protocols from restoring service quickly, or sometimes at all. These brief but costly outages […]
AWS – AWS IoT Services expand support of VPC endpoints and IPv6 connectivity
AWS IoT Core, AWS IoT Device Management, and AWS IoT Device Defender have expanded support for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints and IPv6. Developers can now use AWS PrivateLink to establish VPC endpoints for all data plane operations, management APIs, and credential provider. This enhancement allows IoT workloads to operate entirely within virtual private clouds […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Blue/Green deployments now supports Aurora Global Database
Amazon RDS Blue/Green deployments now support safer, simpler, and faster updates for your Aurora Global Databases. With just a few clicks, you can create a staging (green) environment that mirrors your production (blue) Aurora Global Database, including primary and all secondary regions. When you’re ready to make your staging environment the new production environment, perform […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Catalog now supports read and write access to Amazon S3
Amazon SageMaker Catalog now supports read and write access to Amazon S3 general purpose buckets. This capability helps data scientists and analysts search for unstructured data, process it alongside structured datasets, and share transformed datasets with other teams. Data publishers gain additional controls to support analytics and generative AI workflows within SageMaker Unified Studio while […]
AWS – Announcing agreement EventBridge notifications for AWS Marketplace
AWS Marketplace now delivers purchase agreement events via Amazon EventBridge, transitioning from our Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) notifications for Software as a Service and Professional Services product types. This enhancement simplifies event-driven workflows for both sellers and buyers by enabling seamless integration of AWS Marketplace Agreements, reducing operational overhead, and improving event monitoring and […]
GCP – Agent Factory Recap: Cracking Open an Open Model
Welcome back to The Agent Factory! In this episode, we’re joined by Ravin Kumar, a Research Engineer at DeepMind, to tackle one of the biggest topics in AI right now: building and training open-source agentic models. We wanted to go beyond just using agents and understand what it takes to build the entire factory line—from […]
AWS – AWS Lambda adds support for Rust
AWS Lambda now supports building serverless applications using Rust. Previously, AWS classified Rust support in Lambda as ‘experimental’ and did not recommend using Rust for production workloads. With this launch, Rust support in Lambda is now Generally Available, backed by AWS Support and the Lambda SLA. Rust is a popular programming language, offering high performance, […]
AWS – Amazon SQS expands IPv6 support to the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) now allows customers to make API requests over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The new endpoints have also been validated under the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 program. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables decoupling and scaling […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) version 8.0
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) announces version 8.0, which now offers added support for drivers supporting the MongoDB API versions 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0. Amazon DocumentDB 8.0 also improves query latency by up to 7x and compression ratio by up to 5x, enabling you to build high-performance applications at a lower cost. The following are […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports major version 18
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports major version 18, starting with PostgreSQL version 18.1. PostgreSQL 18 introduces several important community updates that improve query performance and database management. PostgreSQL 18.0 includes “skip scan” support for multicolumn B-tree indexes and improved WHERE clause handling for OR and IN conditions enhance query optimization. Parallel Generalized Inverted Index […]