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AWS – Amazon EC2 C8gd, M8gd, and R8gd instances are now available in additional AWS Regions
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gd instances are now available in Europe (London), and Canada (Central) AWS Regions. Additionally, M8gd instances are available in South America (Sao Paulo) and R8gd instances are available in Europe (London) AWS Region. These instances feature up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage and are powered […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C6id and R6id instances are now available in additional regions
Amazon EC2 C6id instances are available in AWS Region Europe (Milan) and R6id instances are available in AWS Region Africa (Cape Town). These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. C6id […]
AWS – Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is now included in Amazon Linux 2023
Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is now available in Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), simplifying how you get started and manage updates. Previously, you had to download the Mountpoint package from GitHub, install dependencies, and manually manage updates. Now, when using AL2023, you can install or update to the latest release of Mountpoint with a single command, […]
AWS – Amazon U7i instances now available in Europe (Stockholm and Ireland) Regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 6TB of memory (u7i-6tb.112xlarge) are now available in the Europe (Stockholm and Ireland) region. U7i-6tb instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-6tb instances offer 6TB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Composite Alarms adds threshold-based alerting
Amazon CloudWatch now enables you to create more flexible alerting policies by triggering notifications when a specific subset of your monitored resources need attention. Using CloudWatch composite alarms, you can create a rule to take action only when a certain combination of alarms is activated. This enhancement lets you choose to receive alerts only when […]
GCP – Introducing Agent Sandbox: Strong guardrails for agentic AI on Kubernetes and GKE
Google and the cloud-native community have consistently strengthened Kubernetes to support modern applications. At KubeCon EU 2025 earlier this year, we announced a series of enhancements to Kubernetes to better support AI inference. Today, at KubeCon NA 2025, we’re focused on making Kubernetes the most open and scalable platform for AI agents, with the introduction […]
GCP – GKE: From containers to agents, the unified platform for every modern workload
The past decade of cloud native infrastructure has been defined by relentless change — from containerization and microservices to the rise of generative AI. Through every shift, Kubernetes has been the constant, delivering stability and a uniform, scalable operational model for both applications and infrastructure. As Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) celebrates its 10th anniversary, its […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M8a Instances now available in additional regions
Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances are available in US East (N. Virginia) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. M8a instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin) with a maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz, deliver up to 30% higher performance, and up to 19% better price-performance compared to […]
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports Logged Batches
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports Logged Batches, enabling you to perform multiple write operations as a single atomic transaction. With Logged Batches, you can ensure that either all operations (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) within a batch succeed or none of them do, maintaining data consistency across multiple rows and tables within a keyspace. This […]
GCP – Supporting Viksit Bharat: Announcing our newest AI investments in India
India’s developer community, vibrant startup ecosystem, and leading enterprises are embracing AI with incredible speed. To meet this moment for India, we are investing in powerful, locally-available tools in India that can help foster a diverse ecosystem, and ensure our platform delivers the controls you need for compliance and AI sovereignty. Today, we’re announcing a […]