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AWS – Amazon EKS adds safety control to prevent accidental cluster deletion
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports deletion protection, helping you prevent accidental termination of your EKS clusters. When enabled, deletion protection requires explicit disablement before a cluster can be deleted, providing an additional safety control for critical environments. Deletion protection is turned off by default for all new and existing clusters. You can enable […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M7gd instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. These Graviton3-based instances with DDR5 memory are built on the AWS Nitro System and are a great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local […]
AWS – AWS Deadline Cloud now supports Autodesk VRED
AWS Deadline Cloud now supports submitting VRED rendering jobs from within Autodesk VRED as well as using the Deadline Cloud Client. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully-managed service that simplifies render management for teams creating computer-generated graphics and visual effects for films, television and broadcasting, web content, and design. This new integration with Autodesk VRED […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M7i instances are now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in the Middle East (UAE) region. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. M7i deliver […]
GCP – Secure your storage: Best practices to prevent dangling bucket takeovers
Storage buckets are where your data lives in the cloud. Much like digital real estate, these buckets are your own plot of land on the internet. When you move away and no longer need a specific bucket, someone else can reuse the plot of land it refers to — if the old address is still […]
AWS – AWS Budgets now supports Billing View for cross-account cost monitoring
AWS announces support for Billing View in AWS Budgets, enabling organizations to create budgets that span multiple member accounts without requiring access to the management account. This integration helps organizations better align monitoring their spend with their business structure and operational needs. With this enhancement, you can create budgets based on filtered views of cost management […]
GCP – How Google and NASA are testing AI for medical care in space
As NASA embarks on a new era of human spaceflight, beginning with the Artemis campaign’s aim to return to the Moon, preparations are underway to ensure crew health and wellness. This includes exploring whether remote care capabilities can deliver detailed diagnoses and treatment options if a physician is not onboard or if real-time communication with […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless adds support for Hybrid Search, AI connectors, and automations
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless announces support for Neural Search, Hybrid Search, Workflow API, and AI connectors. This new set of APIs facilitates use cases such as retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and semantic search. Neural search enables semantic queries through text and images instead of vectors. Neural search uses a high-level API with connectors to Amazon SageMaker, […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 now offers up to 30% performance improvement
Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 now offers up to 30% improved performance for databases running on the latest serverless platform version (version 3), and also supports scaling from 0 up to 256 Aurora Capacity Units (ACUs). Aurora Serverless v2 measures capacity in ACUs where each ACU is a combination of approximately 2 gibibytes (GiB) of memory, […]
GCP – Supercharge your AI: GKE inference reference architecture, your blueprint for production-ready inference
The age of AI is here, and organizations everywhere are racing to deploy powerful models to drive innovation, enhance products, and create entirely new user experiences. But moving from a trained model in a lab to a scalable, cost-effective, and production-grade inference service is a significant engineering challenge. It requires deep expertise in infrastructure, networking, […]