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GCP – Network Performance Decoded: Benchmarking TCP and UDP bulk flows
Here on the Google Cloud networking team, we’ve been deep in the trenches with our customers, helping them build, fix, and supercharge their networks for years. In that time, we’ve uncovered some valuable patterns and best practices for maximizing network performance and efficiency. This wealth of knowledge is more than just a theoretical resource — […]
GCP – Leveling up FinOps: 5 cost management innovations from FinOps X 2024
At Google Cloud, our FinOps product philosophy is that all cloud costs should be visible and allocated, spend should be efficient with no waste, and there are of course no surprise costs. And once again, Google Cloud is at the forefront of FinOps innovation, leading with some exciting new product announcements at FinOps X 2024. […]
GCP – Normalize billing data across clouds with new Looker template and BigQuery views
At Google Cloud, we strongly believe you should have resources to analyze Google Cloud costs alongside other cloud providers, so you can better manage and optimize cloud costs. You should not need to spend time mapping billing terminology across cloud providers. And we believe in doing that through open standards. We were a founding member […]
GCP – Simplify historical data tracking in BigQuery with Datastream’s append-only CDC
Organizations often grapple with the need to have both an up-to-date “source of truth” as well as the ability to track the complete history of changes within their data. When managing this data within operational databases like MySQL or PostgreSQL, a common approach is to utilize change data capture (CDC) to replicate the changes to […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Replication Time Control is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon S3 Replication Time Control (S3 RTC), a feature of S3 Replication that provides a predictable replication time backed by a Service Level Agreement (SLA), is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Customers use S3 Replication to replicate billions of objects across buckets to the same or different AWS Regions and to one […]
AWS – AWS Compute Optimizer supports rightsizing recommendations for Amazon RDS MySQL and RDS PostgreSQL
AWS Compute Optimizer now provides recommendations for Amazon RDS MySQL and RDS PostgreSQL DB instances and storage. These recommendations help you identify idle databases and choose the optimal DB instance class and provisioned IOPS settings, so you can reduce costs for over-provisioned workloads and increase the performance of under-provisioned workloads. AWS Compute Optimizer automatically discovers […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports up to 64TiB and 256,000 IOPS with io2 Block Express volumes
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now offers enhanced storage and performance capabilities, supporting up to 64TiB of storage and 256,000 I/O operations per seconds (IOPS) with io2 Block Express volumes. This represents an improvement from the previous limit of 16 TiB and 64,000 IOPS with IO2 Block Express. These enhancements enable transactional databases and data […]
AWS – AWS CodeArtifact now supports Cargo, the Rust package manager
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Cargo support in CodeArtifact. Crates, which are used to distribute Rust libraries, can now be stored in CodeArtifact. Cargo, the package manager for the Rust programming language, can be used to publish and download crates from CodeArtifact repositories. Developers can configure CodeArtifact to fetch crates from crates.io, the […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Multitenant in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Oracle Multitenant configuration on Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c running Oracle Enterprise Edition or Standard Edition 2 in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With this release, the Amazon RDS for Oracle DB instance can operate as a multitenant container database (CDB) hosting one […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock now supports compressed embeddings from Cohere Embed
Amazon Bedrock now supports compressed embeddings (int8 and binary) from the Cohere Embed model, enabling developers and businesses to build more efficient generative AI applications without compromising on performance. Cohere Embed is a leading text embedding model. It is most frequently used to power Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and semantic search systems. The text embeddings output […]