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GCP – Safeguard your SAP environments with Workload Manager’s evaluation service
As businesses embrace the cloud for their SAP workloads, compliance with best practices is critical. In this blog post, we dive into Google Cloud’s Workload Manager and show how it can help safeguard your SAP systems by providing automated, rule-based analysis to proactively identify potential misconfigurations and deviations from best practices. The role of best […]
GCP – At Devoted Health, ChromeOS works side by side with employees
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by David Gallant, Head of Enterprise Technology and Support at Devoted Health, an all-in-one healthcare company on a mission to dramatically improve the health and well-being of older Americans. At Devoted Health, we believe healthcare should be a better experience for patients and clinicians. That’s why nearly all of our […]
AWS – Announcing IDE workspace context awareness in Q Developer chat
Today, AWS announces IDE workspace context awareness in Amazon Q Developer chat. Users can now add @workspace to their chat message to Amazon Q Developer to ask questions about the code in the project they currently have open in the integrated development environment (IDE). Developers can ask questions like “@workspace what does this codebase do?” […]
AWS – Amazon ECS now enforces software version consistency for containerized applications
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now enforces software version consistency for your containerized applications, helping you ensure all tasks in your application are identical and that all code changes go through the safeguards defined in your deployment pipeline. Customers deploy long-running applications such as HTTP-based microservices as Amazon ECS services and often use container […]
AWS – AWS Secrets Manager announces open source release of Secrets Manager Agent
AWS Secrets Manager today announces Secrets Manager Agent – a language agnostic local HTTP service that you can install and use in your compute environments to read secrets from Secrets Manager and cache them in memory. With this launch, you can now simplify and standardize the way you read secrets across compute environments without the […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports minor version 2019 CU27
A new minor version of Microsoft SQL Server is now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, providing performance enhancements and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the latest minor version of SQL Server 2019 across the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. We encourage you to upgrade your Amazon RDS for […]
AWS – RDS Performance Insights provides support for AWS PrivateLink and IPv6
Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) Performance Insights now provides support for AWS PrivateLink and Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6). Customers can now access Performance Insights API/CLI privately, without going through the public Internet. Additionally, Performance Insights includes support for IPv6 connectivity and for a dual stack configuration (IPv4 and IPv6). AWS PrivateLink provides private, secure, […]
AWS – AWS Batch now supports gang-scheduling on Amazon EKS using multi-node parallel jobs
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Multi-Node Parallel (MNP) jobs in AWS Batch on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). With AWS Batch MNP jobs you can run tightly-coupled High Performance Computing (HPC) applications like training multi-layer AI/ML models. AWS Batch helps you to launch, configure, and manage nodes in your Amazon EKS cluster […]
AWS – Amazon ECS now provides enhanced stopped task error messages for easier troubleshooting
Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) now makes it easier to troubleshoot task launch failures with enhanced stopped task error messages. When your Amazon ECS task fails to launch, you see the stopped task error messages in the AWS Management Console or in the ECS DescribeTasks API response. With today’s launch, Amazon ECS stopped task […]
AWS – AWS Neuron introduces Flash Attention kernel enabling high performance and large sequence lengths
Today, AWS announces the release of Neuron 2.19, introducing support for flash attention kernel to enable performant LLM model training and inference with large sequence lengths. AWS Neuron is the SDK for AWS Inferentia and Trainium based instances purpose-built for generative AI. Neuron integrates with popular ML frameworks like PyTorch. It includes a compiler, runtime, […]