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GCP – How Vodafone is using gen AI to enhance network life cycle
Generative AI is transforming industries across the globe, and telecommunications is no exception. From personalized customer interactions and streamlined content creation to network optimization and enhanced productivity, generative AI is poised to redefine the very fabric of the telco industry. Vodafone, a global leader in telecommunications, recognizes the immense potential of gen AI to revolutionize […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 added New CPU-Performance Attribute for Instance Type Selection
Starting today, EC2 Auto Scaling and EC2 Fleet customers can express their EC2 instances’ CPU-performance requirements as part of the Attribute-Based Instance Type Selection (ABIS) configuration. With ABIS, customers can already choose a list of instances types by defining a set of desired resource requirements, such as the number of vCPU cores and memory per […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Express One Zone is now available in three additional AWS Regions
The Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class is now available in three additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Ireland), and US East (Ohio). S3 Express One Zone is a high-performance, single-Availability Zone storage class purpose-built to deliver consistent single-digit millisecond data access for your most frequently accessed data and latency-sensitive applications. S3 Express […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports the ability to append data to an object
Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports the ability to append data to an object. For the first time, applications can add data to an existing object in S3. Applications that continuously receive data over a period of time need the ability to add data to existing objects. For example, log-processing applications continuously add new […]
AWS – AWS Application Load Balancer introduces header modification for enhanced traffic control and security
Application Load Balancer (ALB) now supports HTTP request and response header modification giving you greater controls to manage your application’s traffic and security posture without having to alter your application code. This feature introduces three key capabilities: renaming specific load balancer generated headers, inserting specific response headers, and disabling server response header. With header rename, […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 G6e instances now available in additional regions
Starting today, the Amazon EC2 G6e instances powered by NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs are now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Europe (Frankfurt, Spain). G6e instances can be used for a wide range of machine learning and spatial computing use cases. G6e instances deliver up to 2.5x better performance compared to G5 instances and […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports Playwright runtime to create canaries with NodeJS
CloudWatch Synthetics, which continuously monitors web applications and APIs by running scripted canaries to help you detect issues before they impact end-users, now supports the Playwright framework for creating NodeJS canaries enabling comprehensive monitoring and diagnosis of complex user journeys and issues that are challenging to automate with other frameworks. Playwright is an open-source automation […]
AWS – Announcing new Amazon CloudWatch Metrics for AWS Lambda Event Source Mappings (ESMs)
AWS Lambda announces new Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Lambda Event Source Mappings (ESMs), which provide customers visibility into the processing state of events read by ESMs that subscribe to Amazon SQS, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon DynamoDB event sources. This enables customers to easily monitor issues or delays in event processing and take corrective actions. Customers […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports S3 Lifecycle expirations
Amazon S3 Express One Zone, a high-performance S3 storage class for latency-sensitive applications, now supports object expiration using S3 Lifecycle. S3 Lifecycle can expire objects based on age to help you automatically optimize storage costs. Now, you can configure S3 Lifecycle rules for S3 Express One Zone to expire objects on your behalf. You can […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C7i-flex and M7i-flex instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Flex (C7i-flex, M7i-flex) instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) 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. Flex […]