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GCP – How scientists can leverage AI agents using Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Code Assist, and Gemini CLI
Scientific inquiry has always been a journey of curiosity, meticulous effort, and groundbreaking discoveries. Today, that journey is being redefined, fueled by the incredible capabilities of AI. It’s moving beyond simply processing data to actively participating in every stage of discovery, and Google Cloud is at the forefront of this transformation, building the tools and […]
GCP – A more native experience for Cloud TPUs with Ray on GKE
Engineering teams use Ray to scale AI workloads across a wide range of hardware, including both GPUs and Cloud TPUs. While Ray provides the core scaling capabilities, developers have often managed the unique architectural details of each accelerator. For Cloud TPUs, this included its specific networking model and Single Programming Multiple Data (SPMD) programming style. […]
GCP – Inside Mercado Libre’s multi-faceted Spanner architecture
Mercado Libre, the e-commerce and fintech pioneer of Latin America, operates at a staggering scale, demanding an infrastructure that’s not just resilient and scalable, but also a catalyst for rapid innovation. While our use of Spanner for foundational consistency and scale is known, a deeper dive reveals a sophisticated, multi-layered strategy. Spanner is not just […]
AWS – AWS Config now supports 52 new resource types
AWS Config now supports 52 additional AWS resource types across key services including Amazon EC2, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon SageMaker. This expansion provides greater coverage over your AWS environment, enabling you to more effectively discover, assess, audit, and remediate an even broader range of resources. With this launch, if you have enabled recording for all […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Agent adds support for NVMe Local Volume Performance Statistics
Amazon CloudWatch agent now supports the collection of detailed performance metrics for NVMe local volumes on Amazon EC2 instances. These metrics give you insights into behavior and performance characteristics of your NVMe local storage. The CloudWatch agent can now be configured to collect and send detailed NVMe metrics to CloudWatch, providing deeper visibility into storage […]
AWS – Mountpoint for Amazon S3 and Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver add monitoring capability
You can now monitor Mountpoint operations in observability tools such as Amazon CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana. With this launch, Mountpoint emits near real-time metrics such as request count or request latency using OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), an open source data transmission protocol. This means you can use applications such as CloudWatch agent or the OpenTelemetry (OTel) […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Streams launches On-demand Advantage mode
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams launches On-demand Advantage, so customers can warm on-demand streams to handle instant throughput increases up to 10GB or 10 million events per second, eliminating the need to over-provision or build custom scaling solutions. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless streaming data service that makes it easy to capture, process, and […]
AWS – Amazon GameLift Streams adds AWS Health notifications for aging resources
Amazon GameLift Streams is now integrated with AWS Health and will provide automated notifications about aging stream groups. Customers are sent regular reminders via AWS Health to re-create their stream groups starting as early as the 45th day to the 335th day from the stream group creation date. Stream groups older than 180 days are […]
AWS – Amazon Route 53 Resolver now supports AWS PrivateLink
Amazon Route 53 Resolver now supports AWS PrivateLink. Customers can now access and manage Route 53 Resolver and all the related features (Resolver endpoints, Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall, Resolver Query Logging, Resolver for AWS Outposts) privately, without going through the public internet. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises applications, securely over the Amazon […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator now supports AWS PrivateLink
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) now supports AWS PrivateLink, enabling you to securely access DAX management APIs such as CreateCluster, DescribeClusters, and DeleteCluster over private IP addresses within your virtual private cloud (VPC). DAX clusters already run inside your VPC, and all data plane operations like GetItem and Query are handled privately within the VPC. With […]